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High reaction rates even without precious metals

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Non-precious metal nanoparticles could one day replace expensive catalysts for hydrogen production. However, it is often difficult to determine what reaction rates they can achieve, especially when it comes to oxide particles. This is because the ...

Jun 19, 2019

Secure quantum communications in the microwave range for the first time

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Mikel Sanz, of the Physical Chemistry Department of UPV/EHU, leads the theoretical group for an experiment published by the prestigious magazine, Nature Communications. The experiment has managed to prepare a remote quantum state; i.e., absolutely...

Jun 19, 2019

EU Council draft conclusions call for sustainable chemicals policy

Chemical Watch   -   Scientific News Websites

Strategy would address REACH, endocrine disruptors and nanomaterials

Jun 18, 2019

Council of Ministers' draft conclusions call for sustainable EU chemicals policy

Chemical Watch   -   Scientific News Websites

Strategy would address REACH, endocrine disruptors and nanomaterials

Jun 18, 2019

A new manufacturing process for aluminum alloys

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

An advanced manufacturing process to produce nano structured rods and tubes directly from high-performance aluminum alloy powder—in a single step—was recently demonstrated by researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Jun 18, 2019

Detecting intersubband polaritons in a single nanoantenna

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Electronic transitions between confined states within a quantum well are widely used in optoelectronics. Familiar examples include quantum cascade lasers and quantum well infrared photodetectors, which can operate in a wide range of wavelengths, f...

Jun 18, 2019

Gold adds the shine of reversible assembly to protein cages

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

An international team has shown the reversible self-assembly of protein cages using gold ions to direct the process. The team designed protein building blocks that formed 3D structures in the presence of gold ions and could be disassembled in the ...

Jun 18, 2019

Engineers boost output of solar desalination system by 50%

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Rice University's solar-powered approach for purifying salt water with sunlight and nanoparticles is even more efficient than its creators first believed.

Jun 18, 2019

Gold nanoparticle clusters for simultaneous photo-thermal imaging and therapy

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NUS chemists have found that gold nanoparticle clusters can be used in photo-thermal therapy for imaging and treatment of human prostate cancer.

Jun 18, 2019

'Hot spots' increase efficiency of solar desalination

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Researchers showed they could boost the efficiency of their nanotechnology-enabled solar membrane desalination system by more than 50% simply by adding inexpensive plastic lenses to concentrate sunlight into 'hot spots.'

Jun 18, 2019

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