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Nanoparticles Take Solar Desalination to New Heights

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Tellurium nanoparticles could help absorb solar radiation or be integrated into sensors and tiny antennas

Aug 10, 2018

A Collaboration of Science and Art Results in New Piece of Graphene Artwork

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Prospect Planes—a video artwork using graphene by Nobel laureate Sir Kostya Novoselov and artist Mary Griffiths has been developed after months of scientific and artistic research and...

Aug 10, 2018

Nanoparticle-Based Combination Therapy to Treat Breast, Prostate Cancer

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have developed a new nanoparticle-based cancer therapy to deliver a combination therapy directly to cancer cells. The new therapy, which has been...

Aug 10, 2018

Modifying Graphene Nanoribbons to Possibly Develop Precise Nanotransistors or Even Quantum Computers

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Researchers at Empa have worked together with collaborators from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz and other partners to accomplish an advancement that could be applied for...

Aug 10, 2018

UC Riverside’s Professor Receives $750K DOE Grant for Organic-Inorganic Materials

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Ming Lee Tang, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, has received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to continue her work on developing hybrid organic-inorganic materials that have a...

Aug 10, 2018

UC Riverside’s Professor Receives $750K DOE Grant for Organic-Inorganic Materials

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Ming Lee Tang, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, has received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to continue her work on developing hybrid organic-inorganic materials that have a...

Aug 10, 2018

Tying down electrons with nanoribbons

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists are experimenting with narrow strips of graphene, called nanoribbons, in hopes of making cool new electronic devices, but University of California, Berkeley scientists have discovered another possible role for them: as nanoscale electr...

Aug 10, 2018

Taming defects in nanoporous materials to put them to a good use

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The word "defect" universally evokes some negative, undesirable feature, but researchers at the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University have a different opinion: in the realm of nanoporous materials, defects can be put to a ...

Aug 10, 2018

Trickle-Down Graphene: An Economical Production Mechanism

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By making carbon leak (trickle-down) through the cracks of a metal, researchers have produced graphene directly on a substrate. This versatile process enables graphene to be economically grown on...

Aug 10, 2018

MIT extrudes electronic-laden fibres for fabric-based wearables eeNews Europe

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Researchers from MIT have demonstrated how it was possible to embed and connect high speed optoelectronic semiconductor devices, including LEDs and diode photodetectors impermeably within polymer fibres as they are extruded. Detailing their...

Aug 10, 2018

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