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Researchers use light to control high-speed chemical reactions in a new way

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Many natural and synthetic chemical systems react and change their properties in the presence of certain kinds of light. These reactions can occur too quickly for ordinary instruments to see. For the first time, researchers adopted a novel techniq...

Sep 13, 2019

Researchers use light to control high-speed chemical reactions in a new way

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Many natural and synthetic chemical systems react and change their properties in the presence of certain kinds of light. These reactions can occur too quickly for ordinary instruments to see. For the first time, researchers adopted a novel techniq...

Sep 13, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Gem-like nanoparticles of precious metals shine as catalysts: Heated particles shift shape and become highly active catalytically

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-New catalysts work 20 times faster than commercial catalysts -Method also can be used to reactivate spent catalysts -Different metals can be used to catalyze different processes

Sep 13, 2019

Significant progress made in inverse photoconductance

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Valencia University (UV) researchers have modified the photoconductance of nanoparticles of tungsten oxide (WO3) in a controlled manner. This has potential applications in photonics and optomechanics. The results have been published in Advanced Sc...

Sep 13, 2019

Engineers develop 'blackest black' material to date: Made from carbon nanotubes, the new coating is 10 times darker than other very black materials

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Engineers have cooked up a material made of carbon nanotubes that is 10 times blacker than anything that has previously been reported.

Sep 13, 2019

Inspired by natural signals in living cells, researchers design artificial gas detector: Tiny box puts itself together and glows

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A cube one-fortieth the size of a human red blood cell can glow when it detects flammable gas. The nanocube is part of a research project to develop artificial systems that mimic the complex chain of events inside living cells.

Sep 13, 2019

Inspired by natural signals in living cells, researchers design artificial gas detector

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A cube one-40th the size of a human red blood cell can glow when it detects flammable gas. The nanocube, designed by chemists at the University of Tokyo, is part of a research project to develop artificial systems that mimic the complex chain of e...

Sep 13, 2019

New optical nanoparticle sensor can detect very low glucose concentrations

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The Optical Research Group of the Universitat Jaume I has developed an optical nanoparticle sensor capable of detecting very low glucose concentrations, such as those present in a person's tear, by means of fluorescent carbon quantum dots, ap...

Sep 13, 2019

Little Heaps of Silver, All Wrapped Up

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Nanoclusters are little “heaps” of a few atoms that often have interesting optical properties and could become useful probes for imaging processes in areas such as biomedicine and diagnostics. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, researchers have in...

Sep 13, 2019

Nanocapsules deliver gene-editing payload – Physics World

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Structures are alternatives to viral vectors for gene therapy using the CRISPR-Cas9 system The post Nanocapsules deliver gene-editing payload appeared first on Physics World.

Sep 13, 2019

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