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Nanoparticles perform ultralong distance communication

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Chemists have designed a new photonic lattice with properties never before seen in nature. These new architectures based on stacked lattices of nanoparticles show interactions across unprecedentedly large distances.

Feb 16, 2023

'Flash Joule' technique efficiently turns would-be pollution into valuable nanomaterials

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Putting that soda bottle or takeout container into the recycling bin is far from a guarantee it will be turned into something new. Scientists at Rice University are trying to address this problem by making the process profitable.

Feb 16, 2023

Researchers develop a novel 2D material that uses a virus to kill cancer cells

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Electro-thermal therapy, which involves applying electrical signals to nanomaterials, provides high cancer cell targeting accuracy and is highly bio-compatible. In this research, scientists from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (S...

Feb 16, 2023

Smooth sailing for electrons in graphene

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Physicists directly measured, for the first time at nanometer resolution, the fluid-like flow of electrons in graphene.

Feb 16, 2023

Nanoparticles perform ultralong distance communication, have 'no counterpart or analogue in nature'

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Northwestern University chemists have designed a new photonic lattice with properties never before seen in nature. In solid materials, atoms must be equally spaced apart and close enough together to interact effectively. Now, new architectures bas...

Feb 16, 2023

How a record-breaking copper nanocatalyst converts CO2 into liquid fuels

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Researchers have made real-time movies of copper nanoparticles as they evolve to convert carbon dioxide and water into renewable fuels and chemicals. Their new insights could help advance the next generation of solar fuels.

Feb 16, 2023

Chemical functionalized noble metal nanocrystals for electrocatalysis

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Electrocatalysis is an interface-dominated process, in which the activity of the catalyst highly relates to the adsorption/desorption behaviors of the reactants/intermediates/products on the active sites. From the perspective of catalyst design, t...

Feb 16, 2023

Scientists Show How to Encode Secrets with Color

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Plasmonic nanorods respond differently to light waves that move in the same direction, called polarized light. Depending on how they are positioned and how the light waves are polarized, a chiral...

Feb 16, 2023

Heterostructured Nanoflowers Could Improve Sodium Batteries

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Transition metal sulfides have great potential for sodium storage due to their high theoretical capacity and abundance. However, low conductivity and volume expansion limit their high-rate performance...

Feb 16, 2023

Merging Technologies to Tackle Brain Tumors

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Recently, researchers at Yale University and the University of Connecticut collaborated to develop a nanoparticle-based treatment to fight glioblastoma (GBM), one of the most harmful malignancies with...

Feb 16, 2023

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