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Uranium chemistry and geological disposal of radioactive waste: New insights using the diamond light

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

A new article provides a significant new insight into our understanding of uranium biogeochemistry and could help with the nuclear legacy. The recent study is the first time that researchers have shown that a uranium-sulfide complex can form under...

Dec 16, 2019

Plasma ionization-based 3-D titania nanofiber-like webs to enhance bioreactivity and osteoconductivity of biomaterials

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In a new study published on Scientific Reports, Mohammad-Hossein Beigi and a research team in the departments of Engineering and Applied Science and Cellular Biotechnology in Canada and Iran described a new method to form biocompatible biomaterial...

Dec 16, 2019

Nano-sized Slice of Pie

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists explain why some molecules spontaneously arrange themselves into five slices of nanoscale pie. Materials formed on vanishingly

Dec 16, 2019

A new tool tidies up molecules at the nano level

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Tidying up. Not an idea associated with living cells on the nanoscale. But just as a mismash of IKEA bits scattered throughout your bedroom is less useful than a neatly-assembled dresser, synthetic biologists wish to have tools to organize "s...

Dec 16, 2019

More efficient risk assessment for nanomaterials

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanotechnology is booming, but risk assessment for these tiny particles is a laborious process that presents significant challenges to the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). To find more efficient test methods, researchers at the ...

Dec 16, 2019

Nanoscience breakthrough: Probing particles smaller than a billionth of a meter

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) developed a new methodology that allows researchers to assess the

Dec 16, 2019

Growing carbon nanotubes with the right twist

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In a recently published paper in Science Advances, Feng Ding of the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials and colleagues have achieved the creation of a specific type of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with a selectivity of 90 percent, and expanded...

Dec 16, 2019

New Method of Creating Synthetic DNA Nanopores

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

A team has created a synthetic DNA nanopore that can translocate protein-sized macromolecules across lipid bilayers selectively.

Dec 16, 2019

Scientists Synthetize New Carbon Nanotubes with 90% Selectivity

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have successfully developed a certain type of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that have 90% selectivity, and have widened the present theory describing the synthesis of these potential...

Dec 16, 2019

New Method Helps Assess Chemical Composition, Structure of Metallic Nanoparticles

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A novel method, developed by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), enables scientists to evaluate the structure and chemical composition of metallic particles that have a diameter...

Dec 16, 2019

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