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FOXSI Mission Will View The Sun With X-Ray Vision

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Without special instrumentation, the Sun looks calm and inert. But beneath that placid façade are countless miniature explosions called nanoflares. These small but intense eruptions... The post FOXSI Mission Will View The Sun With X-Ray Vision ap...

Sep 5, 2018

Heat transfer surprise could lead to thermal transistors

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

As much as 100 times more heat than predicted by the standard radiation theory can flow between two nanoscale objects, even at bigger-than-nanoscale distances.

Sep 5, 2018

Measuring the Nanoworld

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

A worldwide study involving 20 laboratories has established and standardized a method to measure exact distances within individual biomolecules, down to the scale of one millionth of the width of a human hair. The new method represents a major im...

Sep 5, 2018

Heat transfer surprise could lead to thermal transistors

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

As much as 100 times more heat than predicted by the standard radiation theory can flow between two nanoscale objects, even at bigger-than-nanoscale distances.

Sep 5, 2018

Heat transfer surprise could lead to thermal transistors

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

As much as 100 times more heat than predicted by the standard radiation theory can flow between two nanoscale objects, even at bigger-than-nanoscale distances.

Sep 5, 2018

A pill for delivering biomedical micromotors

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Using tiny micromotors to diagnose and treat disease in the human body could soon be a reality. But keeping these devices intact as they travel through the body remains a hurdle. Now in a study appearing in ACS Nano, scientists report that they ha...

Sep 5, 2018

Controlling light at the nanoscale with graphene

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers are developing ways to use graphene efficiently in novel optical technologies with potential applications in medical imaging, biosensing, signal processing and computing.

Sep 5, 2018

Controlling light at the nanoscale with graphene

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers are developing ways to use graphene efficiently in novel optical technologies with potential applications in medical imaging, biosensing, signal processing and computing.

Sep 5, 2018

S, N co-doped carbon nanotube-encapsulated CoS2@Co

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Electrochemical water splitting is favorable strategy to produce high-purity H2. The current mainstream catalysts for water electrolysis are precious metals (Pt, RuO2, IrO2), which possess superior catalytic activity, relatively low over-potential...

Sep 5, 2018

Probing the limits of plasmonic enhancement using a two-dimensional atomic crystal probe

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A research group led by Shunping Zhang and Hongxing Xu at Wuhan University, China, has developed a quantitative SERS technique to probe the maximum plasmonic fields before effects such as electron tunneling become dominant. The researchers turned ...

Sep 5, 2018

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