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Breakthrough in material design will help football players, car occupants and hospital patients

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

The discovery that football players were unknowingly acquiring permanent brain damage as they racked up head hits throughout their professional careers created a rush to design better head protection. One of these inventions is nanofoam, the mater...

Jul 14, 2023

Linewidth narrowing in self-injection-locked, on-chip lasers

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On-chip laser diodes based on quantum well (QW) and quantum dot (QD) semiconductor materials have become the primary technology for several applications due to their excellent characteristics, including high power efficiency, high-temperature oper...

Jul 14, 2023

Liquid metal nanodroplets formed with new technique have promising properties for catalysis

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Liquid metal, planet-like nanodroplets have been successfully formed with a new technique developed at RMIT University, Australia. Like our own planet Earth, the nanodroplets feature an outer "crust," a liquid metal "mantle," a...

Jul 14, 2023

New study reveals spin in quantum dots' carrier multiplication

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A new approach to developing semiconductor materials at tiny scales could help boost applications that rely on converting light to energy. A Los Alamos-led research team incorporated magnetic dopants into specially engineered colloidal quantum dot...

Jul 14, 2023

Graphene-Info updates its Graphene Oxide Market Report

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Today we published a new edition of our Graphene Oxide Market Report, with all the latest information, including both new research activities. Our market report is a comprehensive guide to graphene oxide (and r-GO) materials and their promising ap...

Jul 14, 2023

Novak Djokovic and His Nanocrystal Patch: Why Do Experts Call It Pseudoscience?

Science Times   -   Scientific News Websites

Tennis star player Novak Djokovic promotes a piece of nanotechnology called TaoPatch which claims to booth athletic performance. Learn more about the device in this article.

Jul 14, 2023

Haydale announces completion of first two stages of low-power hot-water project with Cadent

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Haydale has reported the completion of stages one and two of a three-stage low-power hot water project in collaboration with Cadent Gas. Haydale said the project, first announced in February 2022, aimed to address the challenge of providing a low-...

Jul 14, 2023

Space has gotten small with metallic, planet-like nanodroplets

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Homogenous liquid-metal nanodroplets achieved with high-temperature molten salt.

Jul 14, 2023

Researchers engineer nanostructures to enhance the immune system's ability to combat cancer

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Over the past decade, researchers have sought more effective and enduring cancer treatments. Among the wide variety of immunotherapies, Stimulator of Interfron Genes activation (STING agonism) has emerged as a particularly promising approach that ...

Jul 13, 2023

Investigating Interactions at Molecular Junctions for Novel Electronic Devices

Tokyo Institute of Technology   -   Organizations and Universities Websites

key role in electron transport, reveals a recent study conducted by researchers at Tokyo Tech. Through simultaneous surface-enhanced Raman scattering and current–voltage measurements, they found that a single dimer junction of naphthalenethiol mol...

Jul 13, 2023

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