A new electrode design for lithium-ion batteries has been shown to potentially reduce the charging time from hours to minutes by replacing the conventional graphite electrode with a network of tin-oxide nanoparticles.
Dec 3rd, 2014
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Groundbreaking wireless material triggers brain activity in response to light.
Dec 3rd, 2014
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An electronic 'tongue' could one day sample food and drinks as a quality check before they hit store shelves. Or it could someday monitor water for pollutants or test blood for signs of disease.
Dec 3rd, 2014
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For years, scientists have been pursuing 'artificial leaf' technology, a green approach to making hydrogen fuel. Now, one team reports progress toward a stand-alone system that lends itself to large-scale, low-cost production.
Dec 3rd, 2014
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Coffee, apple juice, and vitamin C: things that people ingest every day are experimental material for chemist Eva-Maria Felix.
Dec 3rd, 2014
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Environmentally friendly material targets flue gases, wells.
Dec 3rd, 2014
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Though it is less than 100 nanometers thick, the bond can withstand pressure up to 2 megapascals (almost 300 pounds per square inch), and its drift, or how much it shifts over time, is on the order of less than 3 trillionths of a meter per hour.
Dec 3rd, 2014
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Researchers have achieved a breakthrough: Reproducible synthesis of gallium-nitride nanowires with controlled size and location on silicon substrates.
Dec 3rd, 2014
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Engineers computer-design the most complicated 3-D structures ever made from DNA.
Dec 3rd, 2014
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Scientists have been successful in producing highly specific nanoparticles. Depending on the bound dye the particles are guided to the liver or to the kidney and deliver their payload of active ingredients directly to the targeted tissue.
Dec 3rd, 2014
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Phsyiker konnten erstmals die paarweise Emission von Elektronen aus einem Halbleiter-Quantenpunkt und deren anschlie�ende r�umliche Aufspaltung in zwei getrennte Leiter nachweisen.
Dec 3rd, 2014
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Confining tiny gold colloids inside nanoscale templates reveals how to design complex structures beyond the capabilities of conventional lithography.
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Upsetting the stability of super-small gold clusters generates multifaceted nanocrystals with potent catalytic properties.
Dec 3rd, 2014
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Flexible metal-organic frameworks with a range of pore sizes are made by threading through molecular ligands.
Dec 3rd, 2014
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Researchers have devised a powerful technique that simultaneously resolves the chemical characterization and topography of nanoscale materials down to the height of a single atom.
Dec 3rd, 2014
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New X-ray spectroscopy technique at Berkeley Lab's advanced light source for the study of heterogeneous interfaces.
Dec 2nd, 2014
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