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Nontoxic nanosystem powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A low-cost, recyclable powder can kill thousands of waterborne bacteria per second when exposed to sunlight. Scientists say the ultrafast disinfectant could be a revolutionary advance for 2 billion people worldwide without access to safe drinking ...

May 24, 2023

The antimicrobial potential of nanoparticles

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanoparticles have widely been used as advanced tools for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of infectious diseases.

May 23, 2023

Multifunctional interface enables manipulation of light waves in free space

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Recent technological advances have given us a remarkable ability to manipulate and control light waves, opening up numerous applications in various fields, such as optical communication, sensing, imaging, energy, and quantum computing. At the hear...

May 23, 2023

Calcium rechargeable battery with long cycle life

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

With the use of electric vehicles and grid-scale energy storage systems on the rise, the need to explore alternatives to lithium-ion batteries has never been greater. Researchers have recently developed a prototype calcium metal rechargeable batte...

May 23, 2023

Nanoscale 3D Printing Allows Scientists To Print Materials on Atomic Level and Provides Numerous Applications in Electrochemistry

Science Times   -   Scientific News Websites

A nanoprinting technique developed by a chemist allows 3D printing of materials atom by atom and opens up various opportunities in electrochemistry. Read the article to find out more.

May 23, 2023

Researchers reveal how a nanomachine cleans up inside the cell

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Have you ever put off cleaning the house or decluttering the overflowing basement? Living cells cannot afford this procrastination when it comes to clearing the decks. Tiny garbage chutes are constantly active there to capture worn-out proteins, f...

May 23, 2023

QCI Looks to Acquire Emotionally Intelligent AI Platform

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Full-stack photonic-based quantum computing and solutions company Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) has signed a letter of intent to acquire up to 100% of AI firm millionways. The letter follows the teaming and combining of millionways’ AI sensing algo...

May 23, 2023

CA2DM@NUS and CBMM develop advanced niobium-graphene batteries with 30-year lifecycles

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

The Centre for Advanced 2D Materials (CA2DM) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), focused on the research of graphene and other 2-dimensional (2D) materials, and CBMM, a leader in niobium products and technology, have developed new niobi...

May 23, 2023

Researchers Discover New Ancestral Mechanism of Defense Against Nanoparticles

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists from the Finnish Hub for Development and Validation of Integrated Approaches (FHAIVE FHAIVE) and Tampere University have uncovered a novel response mechanism related to nanoparticle exposure that’s shared across various species.

May 23, 2023

Scientists discover nonlocal effects of biexciton emission in large semiconductor nanocrystals

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In a new paper published in eLight, a team of scientists led by Professors Haizheng Zhong and Yongyou Zhang from the Beijing Institute of Technology and Professor Haiyan Qin from Zhejiang University have discovered nonlocal effects in large semico...

May 22, 2023

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