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Scientists use surfactant to help make 'inert' templates for nanotube growth

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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used a surfactant to disperse insulating boron nitride nanotubes and coat them onto surfaces without bundling. The team demonstrated that heat treatment could remove the surfactant to reveal clea...

Oct 17, 2022

Nanosheets Synthesized for Green Hydrogen and Urea Removal Applications

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Urea electrolysis can create molecular green hydrogen while also addressing the environmental issues posed by urea-rich sewage effluents. However, developing low-cost, extremely reactive, and robust electrocatalysts for highly-efficient urea elect...

Oct 17, 2022

Nanocarriers Inhibit Metastasis in Breast Cancer Mouse Model

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Despite the efficiency of chemotherapy in treating primary tumors, it may induce undesirable metastasis because of proinflammatory factors being released from impaired cells, upregulating inflammatory reactions.

Oct 17, 2022

Uniquely Shaping Graphene Oxide Has Great Promise in Soft Robotics

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The quantum-confined superfluid (QSF) concept has been proposed for ultrafast mass transport and is primarily related to the orderly flow of fluids in nanoconfined spaces. Although QSF channel-containing graphene oxide films have surfaced as smart...

Oct 17, 2022

Using UV Absorption Spectroscopy to Analyze ssDNA-Coated CNTs

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Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) shows remarkable selectivity when coated onto single-walled carbon nanotubes. Although many previous reports have focused on the applications of these structures, very few reports have analyzed their structure and compo...

Oct 17, 2022

Nanostructured diamond capsules hold fast under pressure

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New structures maintain the properties of high-pressure materials outside the high-pressure vessels in which they were formed The post Nanostructured diamond capsules hold fast under pressure appeared first on Physics World.

Oct 17, 2022

Magnetic force microscopy: investigating the physics of racetrack-memory devices

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German nanotechnology specialist attocube offers scanning probe microscopes to study the behaviour of complex magnetic nanostructures at ultralow temperatures

Oct 17, 2022

Researchers develop method for the fabrication of mesoporous graphene for energy storage systems

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Researchers from South-Korea's Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, Yeungnam University, Konkuk University and University of Seoul have proposed a simple strat...

Oct 17, 2022

Graphene help researchers to develop efficient oxygen catalysts for lithium-oxygen batteries

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Researchers from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Henan Agricultural University have designed two-dimensional (2D) Mn3O4 nanosheets with dominant crystal planes on graphene (Mn3O4 NS/G) a...

Oct 17, 2022

Nanoscale Imaging Captures Soft Matter in Liquid Environment

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Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkley Lab) developed an imaging platform that enabled nondestructive spectroscopic imaging of soft materials with nanometer spatial resolution, under in vitro conditions and external stimuli....

Oct 17, 2022

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