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Hilton will design suites and sleeping quarters for Voyager’s private Starlab space station

Engadget   -   General News Websites

Voyager and Lockheed Martin have found a partner to design astronaut facilities for their space station. Hilton will develop suites and sleeping quarters for Starlab, CNBC reports. Under the partnership, Hilton and Voyager will also look at market...

Sep 19, 2022

Optical rule was made to be broken

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have found a way to manipulate light at the nanoscale that breaks the Moss rule, which describes a trade-off between a material's optical absorption and how it refracts light.

Sep 19, 2022

Disentangling the Facts from the Hype of Quantum Computing

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Few fields invite as much unbridled hype as quantum computing. Most people’s understanding of quantum physics extends to the fact that it is unpredictable, powerful, and almost existentially strange. A few years ago, I provided IEEE Spectrum an up...

Sep 19, 2022

Surface defect engineering of nanowire arrays towards efficient nitrogen reduction for ammonia synthesis

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Ammonia is a carbon-neutral energy carrier and potential transportation fuel applied extensively in fertilizers, plastics, and explosives. Conventional ammonia synthesis methods rely primarily on the high-temperature and high-pressure Haber–Bosch ...

Sep 19, 2022

Customizing Pt5Ce Alloy Particle Sizes for Oxygen Reduction

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Using a gas-aggregation technique, two Pt-RE alloys in the nanoparticle form with even sizes, PtxY and PtxGd (x specifies changing stoichiometry or poorly characterized alloy structure), have been made ready from cluster sources. Their specific ac...

Sep 19, 2022

Detecting Nitrite Ions in Meat Using a Carbon Dot/PVA Nanocomposite

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In a paper published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, fluorescence quenching was used to detect nitrite ions in processed meat products using a sensing system centered on doped carbon quantum dots. Using this sensor system wi...

Sep 19, 2022

2D Organic Copper Nanoclusters Reported with 30° Twisted Stacking

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Deterministic molecular stacking of two-dimensional substances with regulated symmetry remains a major challenge. A recent study published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters addresses this issue by reporting a 30° twisted stacking of two...

Sep 19, 2022

Surfactant-Free Method for Coating Cellulose Nanocrystals Using Hydrotropes

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A recent study published in the journal Advanced Materials Interfaces presents a surfactant-free approach for dip coating cellulose nanocrystals utilizing hydrotropes.

Sep 19, 2022

Carbon nanotubes boost efficiency in "nanobionic" bacterial solar cells

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

Engineers at EPFL have found a way to insert carbon nanotubes into photosynthetic bacteria, which greatly improves their electrical output. They even pass these nanotubes down to their offspring when they divide, through what the team calls “inher...

Sep 19, 2022

Nanoengineering may hold the key to developing more effective, safer treatments for a deadly childhood cancer

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Neuroblastoma is one of the most common—and lethal—forms of childhood cancer, accounting for 15 percent of pediatric cancer deaths yearly. (Despite the name, neuroblastoma is not a form of brain cancer; it typically consists of tumors found in the...

Sep 18, 2022

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