Scientists have developed a light-activated coating for filtration membranes - the kind used in water treatment facilities, at semiconductor manufacturing sites and within the food and beverage industry - to make them self-cleaning, eliminating the need to shut systems down in order to repair them.
Aug 19th, 2020
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Researchers have developed a prototype device that non-invasively detected COVID-19 in the exhaled breath of infected patients.
Aug 19th, 2020
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Defects turn common material into a highly efficient capacitor.
Aug 19th, 2020
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Researchers demonstrated that living MOF-plant nanobiohybrids can be used for the detection of various toxic metal ions and organic pollutants.
Aug 19th, 2020
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For the first time, scientists were able to observe how electronic charge excitation changes electron spin in metal oxides in an ultrafast and inphase manner.
Aug 19th, 2020
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Scientists summarize recent developments in the field of nanofiltration and provide guidance for potential future approaches to improve the selectivity of nanofiltration membranes.
Aug 19th, 2020
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New anti-bacterial surfaces are being developed, featuring different nanopatterns that mimic the deadly action of insect wings, but scientists are only beginning to unravel the mysteries of how they work.
Aug 19th, 2020
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Researchers researcher demonstrate that a gentle wind-driven triboelectric nanogenerator can efficiently harvest energy from ultralowspeed wind/airflow of 0.7?6 m meters per second.
Aug 18th, 2020
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Scientists have developed a nanopore technique which, in laboratory tests, has shown potential to offer a powerful, quick-and-easy tool for mutation detection.
Aug 18th, 2020
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Two new studies determine how to harness the might of phosphorene while mitigating its two main deterrents - cost and durability.
Aug 18th, 2020
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Researchers use diamondization of mechanically exfoliated few-layer graphene via compression, to synthesize the long-sought-after diamane film.
Aug 18th, 2020
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Scientists have discovered a hitherto-unknown physical phenomenon in an artificial material made up of very thin layers of nickelates. This could be exploited to accurately control some of the material?s electronic properties, such as the sudden transition from a conductive to an insulating state.
Aug 18th, 2020
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Insight into charge generation induced by light could enable the design of better photocatalysts made from nanomaterials.
Aug 17th, 2020
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Physicists have created a new material layered by two structures, forming a superlattice, that at a high temperature is a super-efficient insulator conducting current without dissipation and lost energy.
Aug 17th, 2020
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The discovery may lead to applications in quantum information processing because time crystals automatically remain intact - coherent - in varying conditions. Protecting coherence is the main difficulty hindering the development of powerful quantum computers.
Aug 17th, 2020
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A novel synthetic approach broke through the limitation of wet-chemistry methods for synthesizing immiscible and high entropy nanoalloys. The composition and size of the obtained nanoalloys were also controllable by varying the experimental conditions/parameters.
Aug 17th, 2020
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