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Taking graphene from wonder material to real-world technologies - Physics World

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Companies find common ground at the Graphene Engineering and Innovation Centre launch to explore new avenues for commercializing graphene and 2D materials The post Taking graphene from wonder material to real-world technologies appeared first on ...

Dec 12, 2018

Scientists discover stability in hybrid photoelectric nanomaterials

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A team of Siberian scientists and foreign colleagues calculated the parameters that influence the intensity of the reaction between carbon nanotubes and phthalocyanines—complex nitrogen-containing compounds. Hybrid constructions based on them are ...

Dec 12, 2018

Cutting Graphene into Smaller Fragments to Build Beneficial Nanostructures

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Up to the present time, it has proved very challenging to convert the promises of the wonder material graphene into useful applications. Amedeo Bellunato, PhD candidate at the Leiden Institute of...

Dec 12, 2018

Boron nitride and silver nanoparticles to help get rid of carbon monoxide emissions

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Russian chemists from NUST MISIS have developed a new hybrid catalyst for carbon monoxide oxidation consisting of hexagonal boron nitride and silver nanoparticles. This material makes it possible to get a full conversion of carbon monoxide at only...

Dec 12, 2018

Ni/MWCNT-based electrochemical sensor for fast detection of phenol in wastewater

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In a paper published in Nano, researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology have discovered a low cost and non-enzymatic phenol sensor that exhibits high sensitivity, good selectivity, reproducibility, and stability which has potential appli...

Dec 12, 2018

Optimised Zeta Potential Measurement in Organic & Aqueous Media

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Testa Analytical Solutions e.K reports that its Nanobrook ZetaPALS zeta potential analyser is uniquely optimised to make sensitive and precise measurements in both organic and aqueous media....

Dec 12, 2018

£60 million GEIC opens in Manchester

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Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, officially opened the £60 million Masdar Building which houses the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre....

Dec 12, 2018

Copper compound as promising quantum computing unit

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Chemists have now synthesized a molecule that can perform the function of a computing unit in a quantum computer.

Dec 11, 2018

Chemical engineers develop new theory to build improved nanomaterials

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Researchers have developed a new theory to better predict how nanoclusters will behave when a given metal is introduced to their structure.

Dec 11, 2018

Chemical engineers develop new theory to build improved nanomaterials

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Thanks in part to their distinct electronic, optical and chemical properties, nanomaterials are utilized in an array of diverse applications from chemical production to medicine and light-emitting devices. But when introducing another metal in the...

Dec 11, 2018

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