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Towards high-quality manganese oxide catalysts with large surface areas
The octahedral molecular sieve (OMS-1) is a very powerful manganese oxide-based catalyst, and researchers have found a remarkably simple way to synthesize it.
July 27, 2022 Read more
Vaccinating against cancer? A new class of nanoparticle vaccines developed
A vaccination as tumor therapy - with a vaccine individually created from a patient's tissue sample that "'attaches' the body's own immune system to cancer cells: a team of researchers has now achieved the basis for this long-term vision.
July 27, 2022 Read more
Some don't like it hot: Thermal conductivity-switching bottleneck resolved
Researchers used straightforward chemical synthesis to modulate the phase transition of a thermal conductivity-switching block copolymer. Reversible changes in the nanostructured anisotropy in the material corresponded to an approximately two-fold change in the thermal conductivity.
July 27, 2022 Read more
Novel method examines the gas-liquid interface in new detail
The interface between gases and liquids is found throughout nature. It is also important to many industrial processes. To improve understanding of the gas-liquid interface, researchers have developed an apparatus to study reactions between gas molecules and highly volatile liquids with new levels of detail.
July 27, 2022 Read more
How do nanoparticles grow? Atomic-scale movie upends 100-year-old theory
Scientists observe nanoparticles ripening in solution at record-breaking resolution.
July 26, 2022 Read more
Improving image sensors for machine vision
On-chip spectrometer, silicon nanowires determine light spectrum, angle.
July 26, 2022 Read more
The hetero-interface is the device: a computational approach
Assembling Lego-like 2D heterostructures can give rise to emergent properties and functionalities very different from the intrinsic characteristics of the constituents.
July 26, 2022 Read more
Bioinspired protein creates stretchable 2D layered materials
Nature creates layered materials like bone and mother-of-pearl that become less sensitive to defects as they grow. Now researchers have created, using biomimetic proteins patterned on squid ring teeth, composite layered 2D materials that are resistant to breaking and extremely stretchable.
July 25, 2022 Read more
New research unveils first visualization of friction at the atomic level
New research unveils the atomic-scale friction of a single tungsten asperity, or rough edge, in real time, showing atomic motion for the first time with electron microscopy.
July 25, 2022 Read more
Neuromorphic computing with optically driven nonlinear fluid dynamics
Liquid film can function as optical memory, enabling new architectural horizons for nanoscale neuromorphic computing.
July 25, 2022 Read more
Researchers explre the structure of the smallest semiconductor with only 27 atoms
The smallest semiconductor composed of only 27 atoms, the Cd14Se13 cluster, has an interesting core-cage structure.
July 25, 2022 Read more
Fundamentals underpinning future atomic and close-to-atomic scale manufacturing
The challenges of implementing atomic and close-to-atomic scale manufacturing lie not only in the extreme small scale at which it can be machined, but also in the fundamental understanding of atomic interactions, which are based on the quantum theory rather than classical theory.
July 25, 2022 Read more
Nanoparticle catalyst destroys 'forever chemicals' with sunlight
Cchemical engineers have improved their design for a light-powered catalyst that rapidly breaks down PFOA, one of the world's most problematic 'forever chemical' pollutants.
July 25, 2022 Read more
Tetrahedrons assemble! Three-sided pyramids form 2D structures
Chemists have discovered that pointy gold tetrahedrons self-assemble into 2D chiral superlattices. The structures could be useful metamaterials.
July 25, 2022 Read more
Researchers explore a hydrodynamic semiconductor where electrons flow like water
Scientists find a simple new way to describe the water-like movement of electrons in a novel type of semiconductor, which could pave the way for more efficient electronics.
July 23, 2022 Read more
Making implants safer with a nanoparticle-modified biomedical implant material
Researchers have developed a new plasma-enabled process that could limit the proliferation of toxins from implants into a patient's bloodstream.
July 22, 2022 Read more
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