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Engineering a novel approach for controlling thermal emission

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute has spearheaded an international team to engineer a novel approach for controlling thermal emission, detailed in a paper published in Science ("Localized thermal emission from topolog...

Jun 7, 2024

Portable infrared microspectrometers for real-time air quality monitoring

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In an increasingly health-conscious society, data is a hot commodity. Tracking step counts with an old-school pedometer has turned into monitoring heart rates, sleep cycles and blood oxygen levels with wearable fitness trackers, a market that has ...

Jun 7, 2024

Nanotechnology targets fibrosis with precision

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Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso are developing a new therapeutic approach that uses nanoparticles for the treatment of skin and lung fibrosis, conditions that can result in severe damage to the body’s tissues.

Jun 7, 2024

Versarien's graphene refocus seems to bear fruit with narrowed losses

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Versarien’s strategic realignment to core graphene technology reportedly resulted in narrowed losses and an improved cash position in the six months up to 31 March.

Jun 6, 2024

New catalyst brings commercial high-efficiency zinc-air batteries closer to reality

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The effective conversion from fossil fuel-based to renewable energy sources requires cost-efficient, high-capacity, rechargeable batteries. Zinc-air batteries (ZAB) can theoretically store large amounts of energy, but current technologies require ...

Jun 4, 2024

Study reveals reversible assembly of platinum catalyst

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Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University (SBU), and their collaborators have uncovered new details of the reversible assembly and disassembly of a platinum catalyst. The new unde...

Jun 4, 2024

Enhancing nanofibrous acoustic energy harvesters with AI

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Scientists at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI), have employed artificial intelligence techniques to improve the design and production of nanofibers used in wearable nanofiber acoustic energy harvesters (NAEH). These acoustic...

Jun 4, 2024

New momentum-space polarization filters enable high signal-to-noise ratio nano imaging

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A research team led by Prof. Zhang Dongguo from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed an optical module that consists of cascaded momentum-space polarization filters based on ve...

Jun 4, 2024

Physicists take molecules to a new ultracold limit to create a Bose-Einstein condensate

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There’s a hot new BEC in town that has nothing to do with bacon, egg, and cheese. You won’t find it at your local bodega, but in the coldest place in New York: the lab of Columbia physicist Sebastian Will, whose experimental group specializes in p...

Jun 3, 2024

Enhancing nanofibrous acoustic energy harvesters with AI

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

cientists at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) have employed artificial intelligence techniques to improve the design and production of nanofibers used in wearable nanofiber acoustic energy harvesters (NAEH). These acoustic d...

Jun 3, 2024

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