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Activity of fuel cell catalysts doubled

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

An interdisciplinary research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has built platinum nanoparticles for catalysis in fuel cells: The new size-optimized catalysts are twice as good as the best process commercially available today. Fuel...

Jul 4, 2019

Bionic catalysts to produce clean energy

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Mixing microbes with carbon nanomaterials could help the transition to renewable energy. KAUST research shows microbes and nanomaterials can be used together to form a biohybrid material that performs well as an electrocatalyst. The material coul...

Jul 4, 2019

HER2-positive breast cancer may be treated with imprinted nanospheres

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

A particularly aggressive, metastasizing form of cancer, HER2-positive breast cancer, may be treated with nanoscopic particles “imprinted” with specific binding sites for the receptor molecule HER2.

Jul 4, 2019

Activity of fuel cell catalysts doubled

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

An interdisciplinary research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has built platinum nanoparticles for catalysis in fuel cells: The new size-optimized catalysts are twice as potent as the best process commercially available today.

Jul 3, 2019

Black (nano)gold to combat climate change

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Global warming is a serious threat to the planet and living beings. One of the main causes of global warming is the increase in the atmospheric CO2 level. The main source of this CO2 is from the burning of fossil fuels in our daily lives (electric...

Jul 3, 2019

Imprinted spheres fight breast cancer: Inhibition of HER2 on tumor cells by molecularly imprinted nanoparticles

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

A particularly aggressive, metastasizing form of cancer, HER2-positive breast cancer, may be treated with nanoscopic particles ''imprinted'' with specific binding sites for the receptor molecule HER2. The selective binding of t...

Jul 3, 2019

Activity of fuel cell catalysts doubled: Modelling leads to the optimum size for platinum fuel cell catalysts

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

An interdisciplinary research team has built platinum nanoparticles for catalysis in fuel cells: The new size-optimized catalysts are twice as good as the best process commercially available today.

Jul 3, 2019

Ultra-small nanoprobes could be a leap forward in high-resolution human-machine interfaces

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Machine enhanced humans -- or cyborgs as they are known in science fiction -- could be one step closer to becoming a reality, thanks to new research.

Jul 3, 2019

Black (nano)gold to combat climate change

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have transformed golden gold to black gold by simply changing the size and gaps between gold nanoparticles. This black gold acts like an artificial tree and uses CO2, sunlight and water to produce fuel.

Jul 3, 2019

Nanoscale Pendulum Coupling Illustrated in New Research

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In 1665, Lord Christiaan Huygens discovered that two pendulum clocks, placed in the same wooden structure, oscillated spontaneously and impeccably in line but in opposite directions: the clocks...

Jul 3, 2019

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