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Old newspapers can be used to grow carbon nanotubes

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

A research collaboration between Rice University and the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University has found that old newspapers can be used as a low cost, eco-friendly material on which to grow single walled carbon nanotubes ...

Nov 27, 2019

Cutting nanoparticles down to size

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A new technique in chemistry could pave the way for producing uniform nanoparticles for use in drug delivery systems.

Nov 27, 2019

Plasmonics-Based Light Detector Could Support Precision Agriculture

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

A new, broad-spectrum photodetector that can be implemented on a single chip has been developed at Duke University. The photodetector spans a range of light frequencies by using on-chip spectral filters created with electromagnetic materials. The ...

Nov 27, 2019

Cutting nanoparticles down to size

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A new technique in chemistry could pave the way for producing uniform nanoparticles for use in drug delivery systems.

Nov 27, 2019

Water-soluble is better - Polymeric carbon nitride nanoparticles for highly efficient photocatalysis

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have succeeded for the first time in synthesizing colloidal nanoparticles of polymeric carbon nitride that are fully soluble in water and act as highly efficient and selective photocatalysts for light-driven chemical conversions.

Nov 27, 2019

Black silicon can help detect explosives

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, and Melbourne Center for Nanofabrication developed an ultrasensitive detector based on black silicon....

Nov 27, 2019

Cutting nanoparticles down to size -- new study

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A new technique in chemistry could pave the way for producing uniform nanoparticles for use in drug delivery systems.

Nov 27, 2019

Atomic-scale manufacturing method could enable ultra-efficient computers

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

As computers continue to infiltrate almost every aspect of modern life, their negative impact on the environment grows. According to recent estimates, the electricity required to power today's computers releases a total of more than 1 gigaton...

Nov 27, 2019

Carbonics 100 GHz Wafer Scale Nanotube Technology Shows Nanotubes Can Finally Compete With Silicon | NextBigFuture.com

NextBigFuture   -   Scientific News Websites

Carbonics has demonstrated a wafer-scalable approach for producing an array of aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) FETs with performance exceeding 100 GHz and linearity of 10dB. This indicates we could finally be close to a tipping point where nanotubes...

Nov 26, 2019

Quantum computers could mark their own homework – Physics World

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Protocol estimates the accuracy of quantum calculation without knowing the correct result The post Quantum computers could mark their own homework appeared first on Physics World.

Nov 26, 2019

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