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Nobel Prize Winner Novoselov to Produce Pieces of Art Using Graphene at MWC 2019

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Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Kostya Novoselov is celebrating 15 years since his triumphant isolation of graphene and will create pieces of art using the ground-breaking material, live at Mobile World...

Feb 21, 2019

Carbon nanotubes can be produced in a new way by twisting ribbon-like graphene

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Researchers utilized symmetry, a time-worn concept of theoretical physics, to develop an effective method to run computer experiments on nanostructures under complex deformations.

Feb 21, 2019

Researchers Develop a New Way to Control and Standardize the Production of Nanowires on Silicon Surfaces

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A new method has been developed by EPFL researchers to regulate and standardize the growth of nanowires on silicon surfaces. This latest breakthrough could present new opportunities for growing...

Feb 21, 2019

Innovative nanocoating technology harnesses sunlight to degrade microplastics

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Low density polyethylene film (LDPE) microplastic fragments, successfully degraded in water using visible-light-excited heterogeneous ZnO photocatalysts.

Feb 21, 2019

Innovative nanocoating technology harnesses sunlight to degrade microplastics

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Low density polyethylene film (LDPE) microplastic fragments, successfully degraded in water using visible-light-excited heterogeneous ZnO photocatalysts. The innovative sunlight-harnessing microplastics degrading technology is part of a study fund...

Feb 21, 2019

With nanopore sensing, VCU physics researchers detect subtle changes in single particles

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Researchers in Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of Physics have discovered that a technique known as nanopore sensing can be used to detect subtle changes in clusters, or extremely small chunks of matter that are bigger than a mo...

Feb 21, 2019

New paper provides design principles for disease-sensing nanomaterials

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A newly published paper from researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, Brooklyn College, and Hunter College, outlines novel design guidance that could rapidly advance deve...

Feb 21, 2019

JILA researchers make coldest quantum gas of molecules

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JILA researchers have made a long-lived, record-cold gas of molecules that follow the wave patterns of quantum mechanics instead of the strictly particle nature of ordinary classical physics. The creation of this gas boosts the odds for advances i...

Feb 21, 2019

Russian scientists show changes in the erythrocyte nanostructure under stress

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Various stress effects make an integral part of modern life, and their minimization is of particular relevance. Currently, much attention is being paid to the study of the structural-metabolic and functional status of erythrocytes, since they serv...

Feb 21, 2019

Quantum dots can spit out clone-like photons

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MIT and ETH Zurich researchers have produced coherent single photon emitters, a key component for future quantum computers and communications systems.

Feb 21, 2019

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