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Nanorods Help to Boost the Nutritional Content of Yoghurt

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Food fortification with supplements improves the quality and quantity of the nutrients in food. An article published in the journal Scientific Reports presented the preparation of microcapsules loaded with selenium (Se) nanorods and probiotics to ...

Sep 5, 2022

A new laser-based chlorination process to create high doping patterns in graphene

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In recent years, electronics and chemical engineers have devised different chemical doping techniques to control the sign and concentration of charge carriers in different material samples. Chemical doping methods essentially entail introducing im...

Sep 5, 2022

Seeing the Dynamics of Proteins and Nanoparticles in a New Light

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The dynamic light scattering (DLS) technique is extensively used in industrial and academic research applications to access the motion spectrum of microscopic objects that help determine the material’s particle size and viscoelastic properties. Ho...

Sep 5, 2022

Novel electrochemical biosensor for early cancer detection

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Exosomes as potential biomarkers in liquid biopsy hold great potential for early cancer diagnosis and monitoring of highly metastatic cancer cells. Recently, a group of researchers proposed a novel electrochemical biosensor for sensitive identific...

Sep 5, 2022

Stretchable Graphene Ink for Skin-Compatible Wearable Devices

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Printing stretchable and skin-compatible conductors with low gauge factor and high durability is challenging. An article published in the journal Chemistry of Materials presented a skin-compatible graphene nanoplatelet (GNP)-based colloidal ink ut...

Sep 5, 2022

Researchers find novel 'nano killers' for sterilization and antifouling

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Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), an anaerobic bacterium, has long been considered the main culprit in causing corrosion failure of metal materials.

Sep 5, 2022

Novel 'nano killers' for sterilization and antifouling

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Researchers have found that a MoS2 nanosheets-based vacancy materials activated by permonosulfate enables efficient anaerobic microorganisms disinfection.

Sep 5, 2022

Fabricating Nanodiamonds Using Laser-Driven Shock Compression of PET Plastics

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A multinational team led by the French École Polytechnique, the University of Rostock, and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) conducted a novel experiment to find out what occurs in the planets’ cores, such as those of Neptune and Ura...

Sep 5, 2022

Super-dense packing of hydrogen molecules on a surface

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Scientists describe the formation of a superdense monolayer of hydrogen on highly ordered mesoporous silica near the boiling temperature.

Sep 5, 2022

Organic thin-film sensors for light-source analysis and anti-counterfeiting applications

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A team of physicists and chemists presents an organic thin-film sensor that describes a completely new way of identifying the wavelength of light and achieves a spectral resolution below one nanometer.

Sep 5, 2022

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