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Plasmonic nanocubes make an ultrafast thermal camera – Physics World

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New multispectral photodetector could find applications in medicine, food safety and precision agriculture The post Plasmonic nanocubes make an ultrafast thermal camera appeared first on Physics World.

Nov 29, 2019

Samsung researchers: More efficient quantum dots without heavy metals

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A team at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology has announced that they have improved quantum dot (QD) technology for use in large displays by developing QDs that are both more efficient and have no heavy metals. In their paper published in the...

Nov 29, 2019

Superconductivity theory under attack

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Measurements on a superconducting material show an abrupt transition between a normal metal and a "strange" metal. The really strange thing, however, is that this abruptness disappears when the temperature falls. "We don't have...

Nov 29, 2019

Stretchable, highly conductive film promising for wearable electronics

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Strong bonds between metal nanowires and polymer nanofibers enable a composite film to realize good electrical conductivity and high stretchability

Nov 29, 2019

Quantum dot lasers move a step closer with electric-pumping development

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Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a way to make Colloidal Quantum Dots produce laser light with the help of an electric field.

Nov 29, 2019

Magnetic nanoparticles with ionic liquids for water purification

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In many parts of the world, access to clean drinking water is far from certain. Filtration of large volumes of water, however, is slow and impractical. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists have introduced a new water purification method ba...

Nov 29, 2019

Method for Using Low-Cost Newsprint from Newspapers to Grow Carbon Nanotubes

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Scientists at Rice and Swansea universities have formulated a method to utilize low-cost newsprint extracted from newspapers to grow nanotubes for the industry. Transmission electron microscope...

Nov 29, 2019

Black silicon can help detect explosives

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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 29, 2019

Stretchable, highly conductive film promising for wearable electronics

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Strong bonds between metal nanowires and polymer nanofibers enable a composite film to realize good electrical conductivity and high stretchability.

Nov 29, 2019

Electro-optical device provides solution to faster computing memories and processors

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The first ever integrated nanoscale device which can be programmed with either photons or electrons has been developed by scientists in Harish Bhaskaran's Advanced Nanoscale Engineering research group at the University of Oxford.

Nov 29, 2019

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