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ChemSec adds PFASs, nanomaterial to SIN List

Chemical Watch   -   Scientific News Websites

November update includes 60 hazardous chemicals

Nov 14, 2019

Storing energy in hydrogen 20 times more effective using platinum-nickel catalyst

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions, but the widely used metal platinum is scarce and expensive. Researchers have now developed an alternative with a 20x higher activity: a catalyst with hollow nanocages of an alloy of nickel and platinum. Res...

Nov 14, 2019

Storing energy in hydrogen 20 times more effective using platinum-nickel catalyst

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions, but the widely used metal platinum is scarce and expensive. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), together with Chinese, Singaporean and Japanese researchers, have now developed an alter...

Nov 14, 2019

Newly developed nanoparticles help fight lung cancer in animal model

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists have reported a new approach to treating lung cancer with inhaled nanoparticles developed at Wake Forest School of Medicine, part of Wake Forest Baptist Health.

Nov 14, 2019

Newly developed nanoparticles help fight lung cancer in animal model

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Scientists have reported a new approach to treating lung cancer with inhaled nanoparticles.

Nov 14, 2019

Researchers Determine Energy Needed to Bend Multilayer Graphene

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In a new study, engineers from the University of Illinois combined atomic-scale experimentation with computer modeling to quantify the energy required to bend multilayer graphene. This question has...

Nov 14, 2019

Hexagon and URI Form Collaborative Partnership for Advanced Manufacturing

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Sensor and software developer Hexagon has announced a collaboration with the University of Rhode Island (URI) to provide manufacturing technologies that will enable a research environment for undergraduate and graduate programs focused on advanced...

Nov 14, 2019

Novel nanostructures could make smartphones more efficient

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

EU-funded researchers and partners are pushing the boundaries of the laws of physics, developing nanocomposite materials and nanoelectronic circuits to greatly improve energy, thermal and computing performance. This could make smartphones and othe...

Nov 14, 2019

Carbon nanotubes open new horizons for neuroscience: controlling neural cell outgrowth

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Researchers of the Microelectronics Research Unit (MIC) at the University of Oulu, in collaboration with Tampere University, have demonstrated that carbon nanotubes can be used to control the direction of neural cell growth.

Nov 14, 2019

Novel nanostructures could make smartphones more efficient

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers are pushing the boundaries of the laws of physics, developing nanocomposite materials and nanoelectronic circuits to greatly improve energy, thermal and computing performance. This could make smartphones and other electronics more effi...

Nov 14, 2019

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