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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

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

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Supercapacitors, which have begun to stand in for conventional batteries, such as Li-ion batteries, can currently store much less energy than is ideal. To remedy this, a group of scientists from Japan propose using conductive nanodiamond as electr...

Dec 3, 2019

Towards high quality ZnO quantum dots prospective for biomedical applications

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Scientists from Warsaw together with colleagues from Grenoble 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 sp...

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 at Kanazawa University in Angewandte Chemie Internation...

Dec 3, 2019

Making higher-energy light to fight cancer

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Researchers have achieved photon up-conversion, the emission of light with energy higher than the one that excites the material, using carefully designed structures containing silicon nanocrystals and specialized organic molecules. The accomplishm...

Dec 2, 2019

IBM is using quantum computers to generate Minecraft-like game levels

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IBM is using quantum computers to help generate video game scenes. The technology is still in its infancy but could result in more interesting or varied game levels

Dec 2, 2019

IBM is using quantum computers to generate Minecraft-like game levels

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IBM is using quantum computers to help generate video game scenes. The technology is still in its infancy but could result in more interesting or varied game levels

Dec 2, 2019

IBM is using quantum computers to generate Minecraft-like game levels

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IBM is using quantum computers to help generate video game scenes. The technology is still in its infancy but could result in more interesting or varied game levels

Dec 2, 2019

Hourglass-Shaped Silicon Photodiodes Provide Greater Sensitivity

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A team of researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology have developed near-infrared (NIR) photodiodes from silicon that are approximately one-third more sensitive than existing photodiodes. Existing NIR photodiodes are typically ...

Dec 2, 2019

2-D materials boost carrier multiplication

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Physicists at the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), have discovered an intriguing phenomenon, known as carrier multiplication (CM), in a class of semiconductors with inc...

Dec 2, 2019

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