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Two quantum dots are better than one: Using one dot to sense changes in another

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Researchers fabricate the first nanoelectronic device that can detect single-electron events in a target quantum dot using a second dot as a sensor.

Sep 19, 2018

Two quantum dots are better than one: Using one dot to sense changes in another

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Researchers fabricate the first nanoelectronic device that can detect single-electron events in a target quantum dot using a second dot as a sensor.

Sep 19, 2018

Device uses graphene plasmons to convert mid-infrared light to electrical signals

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A team of researchers has developed a device that uses the material graphene to detect mid-infrared light and efficiently convert it to electrical signal at room temperature. It?s a breakthrough that could lead to better communications systems, th...

Sep 19, 2018

Device uses graphene plasmons to convert mid-infrared light to electrical signals

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A team of researchers has developed a device that uses the material graphene to detect mid-infrared light and efficiently convert it to electrical signal at room temperature. It?s a breakthrough that could lead to better communications systems, th...

Sep 19, 2018

Viral RNA sensing

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Even tiny amounts of viruses can have disastrous consequences. RNA identification can reveal the type of virus present. A fast and sensitive technique based on optical detection has now been outlined in the journal Angewandte Chemie. Scientists fr...

Sep 19, 2018

UT engineers develop first method for controlling nanomotors

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Engineers at UT Austin develop world's first method for controlling the motion of nanomotors with simple visible light as the stimulus.

Sep 19, 2018

Interfacial engineering core@shell nanoparticles for active and selective direct H2O2 generation

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A class of supported Pd@NiO-x core@shell catalysts have been constructed as highly efficient catalysts toward direct H2O2 generation. The optimized Pd@NiO-3/TiO2 exhibited high activity, superior selectivity, low degradation activity and excellent...

Sep 19, 2018

Chitinase as 'burnt-bridge' Brownian monorail efficiently hydrolyzing recalcitrant biomass

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Serratia marcescens Chitinase A (SmChiA) is a molecular motor efficiently hydrolyzing recalcitrant crystalline chitin by moving on the surface processively. By using gold-nanoparticle probe, researchers revealed 1-nm stepping motion of SmChiA rect...

Sep 19, 2018

Two quantum dots are better than one: Using one dot to sense changes in another

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Osaka University researchers developed the first device that can detect single-electron events in a self-assembled quantum dot in real time. The device detects the single-electron tunneling events of one quantum dot as changes in the current produ...

Sep 19, 2018

Nucleation a boon to sustainable nanomanufacturing

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Young-Shin Jun, professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Quingun Li, a former doctoral student in her lab, are the first to measure the activation energy and kine...

Sep 19, 2018

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