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SmartDope: The “Self-Driving Lab” That Unlocks Quantum Dot Secrets in Hours – Instead of Years

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

SmartDope, an autonomous system, accelerates material synthesis for electronic devices, achieving a quantum yield record within a day, demonstrating its potential to revolutionize material science.

Nov 15, 2023

Engineering bacteria to biosynthesize intricate protein complexes

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Protein cages found in nature within microbes help weather its contents from the harsh intracellular environment -- an observation with many bioengineering applications. Researchers recently developed an innovative bioengineering approach using ge...

Nov 15, 2023

Nanoparticles for optimized cancer therapy

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Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest types of cancers in humans. It is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the western world. The early stages of the disease often progress without symptoms, so diagnosis is usually very late.

Nov 15, 2023

Riddle of Kondo effect solved in ultimately thin wires

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A research team has now directly measured the so-called Kondo effect, which governs the behavior of magnetic atoms surrounded by a sea of electrons: New observations with a scanning tunneling microscope reveal the effect in one-dimensional wires f...

Nov 15, 2023

Researchers engineer nanoparticles using ion irradiation to advance clean energy, fuel conversion

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

MIT researchers and colleagues have demonstrated a way to precisely control the size, composition, and other properties of nanoparticles key to the reactions involved in a variety of clean energy and environmental technologies. They did so by leve...

Nov 15, 2023

Researchers precisely control nanoparticle growth using ion radiation

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers use ion beam irradiation during exsolution to precisely engineer nanoparticle catalysts for clean energy apps. Controlling size, composition and placement, the engineered nanoparticles have superior catalytic activity.

Nov 15, 2023

Researchers develop novel selenium nanoparticles for managing postmenopausal osteoporosis

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

As the aging population around the world grows, metabolic diseases like osteoporosis are becoming more prevalent and placing a greater burden on health care systems. Rising to this challenge, a research team led by Prof. Wong Ka-hing, Director of ...

Nov 15, 2023

Creating optical logic gates from graphene nanoribbons

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Research into artificial intelligence (AI) network computing has made significant progress in recent years but has so far been held back by the limitations of logic gates in conventional computer chips. Through new research published in The Europe...

Nov 15, 2023

Researchers develop nanoparticle treatment approach for optimized pancreatic cancer therapy

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest types of cancers in humans. It is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the western world. The early stages of the disease often progress without symptoms, so diagnosis is usually very late....

Nov 15, 2023

Stacked graphene can be tuned to exhibit three important properties

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Physicists have stacked five flakes of graphene in a specific order. The resulting material can then be tuned to exhibit three important properties never before seen in natural graphite.

Nov 15, 2023

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