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Towards high quality zinc oxide quantum dots for biomedical applications

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Nanocrystalline zinc oxide (ZnO) is currently one of the most commonly used semiconductor metal oxide nanomaterials due to its unique catalytic and electro-optical characteristics. The inherent and distinctive physicochemical properties of ZnO nan...

Dec 3, 2019

Electron correlations in carbon nanostructures

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New materials are needed to further reduce the size of electronic components and thus make devices such as laptops and smartphones faster and more efficient. Tiny nanostructures of the novel material graphene are promising in this respect. Graphen...

Dec 3, 2019

Diamonds in your devices: Powering the next generation of energy storage

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Using conductive nanodiamond as electrode material in a water-based cell significantly increases its energy storage capacity.

Dec 3, 2019

Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution

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Graphene Flagship partners the University of Bologna, Politecnico di Milano, CNR, NEST, Italcementi HeidelbergCement Group, the Israel Institute of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, and the University of Cambridge have developed a gr...

Dec 3, 2019

Towards high quality ZnO quantum dots prospective for biomedical applications

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Scientists have moved a step closer to creating stable, high quality colloidal zinc oxide quantum dots (ZnO QDs) for use in modern technologies and nanomedicine. Using advanced DNP-enhanced NMR spectroscopy they have clearly proved the superiority...

Dec 3, 2019

Imaging technique gives catalytic 2D material engineering a better view

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A scanning electrochemical cell imaging technique shows how nanoscale structural features affect the catalytic activity of MoS2 monolayers for hydrogen evolution reactions.

Dec 3, 2019

Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution

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A graphene-titania photocatalyst degrades up to 70% more atmospheric NOx than standard titania nanoparticles in tests on real pollutants.

Dec 3, 2019

Grain boundaries in graphene do not affect spin transport

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Researchers from the ICN2 Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience Group as well as the Université catholique de Louvain have used numerical simulations to show that spin diffusion length is independent of grain size. The results are published in...

Dec 3, 2019

Imaging technique gives catalytic 2D material engineering a better view

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A scanning electrochemical cell imaging technique shows how nanoscale structural features affect the catalytic activity of MoS2 monolayers for hydrogen evolution reactions, report researchers.

Dec 3, 2019

Improving drug delivery for brain tumor treatment: Scientists propose combining ultrasound with other techniques to improve drug transport into brain tumors

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Despite improvements in drug delivery mechanisms, treating brain tumors has remained challenging. Researchers have studied the processes affecting therapeutic drug penetration into brain tumors. One approach is to use microbubbles to help overcome...

Dec 3, 2019

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