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Physicists find weak spots in ceramic/graphene composites

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Physicists and materials scientists from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) analyzed the structures in nanomaterials made of ceramic and graphene plates, in which cracks appear most frequently. The results of the first tr...

Sep 27, 2019

New design of bioactive peptide nanofibers keeping both temperature reversibility and stiffness control

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A collaboration mainly led by scientists from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) in Japan has developed a new method of molecular design to control both temperature reversibility and stiffness of nanofibers that are gel-forming ...

Sep 27, 2019

Converting CO2 to valuable resources with the help of nanoparticles

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An international research team has used nanoparticles to convert carbon dioxide into valuable raw materials. Scientists have adopted the principle from enzymes that produce complex molecules in multi-step reactions. The team transferred this mecha...

Sep 27, 2019

Converting carbon dioxide to valuable resources with the help of nanoparticles

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An international research team has used nanoparticles to convert carbon dioxide into valuable raw materials. Scientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany and the University of New South Wales in Australia have adopted the principle from enzyme...

Sep 27, 2019

Nanoparticles used to transport anti-cancer agent to cells

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Scientists from the University of Cambridge have developed a platform that uses nanoparticles known as metal-organic frameworks to

Sep 27, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Nanogate: First Half of 2019 Marked by Market Development and Future-Oriented NXI Program

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Sales increased to EUR 122.2 million (previous year: EUR 119.4 million), EBITDA reaches EUR 8.0 million (previous year: EUR 12.7 million), consolidated net income at EUR -2.7 million (previo...

Sep 27, 2019

New design of bioactive peptide nanofibers keeping both temperature reversibility and stiffness control

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Scientists have developed a new method of molecular design to control both temperature reversibility and stiffness of nanofibers that are gel-forming peptides. The peptide nanofiber hydrogel can be used as biomedical materials. This method will al...

Sep 27, 2019

Observations of Rydberg exciton polaritons and their condensate in a perovskite cavity

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In quantum physics, Rydberg excitons with high principal value can exhibit strong dipole-dipole interactions. However, polaritons (quasiparticles) with an excitonic constituent in an excited state, known as Rydberg exciton polaritons (REPs) remain...

Sep 27, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Turning heat into electricity: A new thermoelectric material developed at FEFU: Young scientists from FEFU manufactured new thermoelectric material based on strontium titanate and titanium oxide

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Young scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) developed the concept and manufactured samples of a new thermoelectric material -- biphase nanoceramics based on strontium titanate SrTiO3 a...

Sep 27, 2019

Graphene's mechanical properties found to have similarities to graphite

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A team of researchers from the U.K., China and Spain has found that graphene exhibits mechanical properties that are similar to those of graphite. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group describes testing flakes ...

Sep 27, 2019

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