Use your smartphone to check how clean the air is, whether food is fresh or a lump is malignant. This has all come a step closer thanks to a new spectrometer that is so small it can be incorporated easily and cheaply in a mobile phone.
Dec 20th, 2017
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Silver nanoparticles are being used in clothing for their anti-odor abilities but some of this silver comes off when the clothes are laundered. The wastewater from this process could end up in the environment, possibly harming aquatic life, so researchers have attempted to recover the silver.
Dec 20th, 2017
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Simply applying a small voltage dramatically changes the atomic structure, vital to creating materials for advanced computer memory.
Dec 20th, 2017
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Approach could make electric car batteries more efficient and cost-effective, helping accelerate movement away from fossil fuels.
Dec 20th, 2017
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Physicists have succeeded in cooling a nanoelectronic chip to a temperature lower than 3 millikelvin. They used magnetic cooling to cool the electrical connections as well as the chip itself.
Dec 20th, 2017
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The World Health Organization proposes new guidelines to policy makers and professionals in the field of occupational health and safety with recommendations on how best to protect workers from the potential risks of manufactured nanomaterials.
Dec 20th, 2017
Read moreA superior membrane, with a higher pore density, is produced through synthesizing this polyacrylonitrile nanofiltration membrane using an ionic liquid solvent.
Dec 20th, 2017
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New embedded nanotransducer approach allows surface acoustic wave device to transmit signals with six times the speed of most commercially used devices.
Dec 19th, 2017
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Researchers calculated the overall electron structure of the vacancy region of a crystal lattice through the unprecedented use of a hybrid functional method, which yielded results compatible with experimental data.
Dec 19th, 2017
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Novel particles could be used in applications ranging from drug delivery to soft robotics.
Dec 19th, 2017
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Predictions lay groundwork for experiments to create 'Weyl-Kondo semimetal'.
Dec 19th, 2017
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A new x-ray beam technique tracks atomic-level changes under real-world operating conditions.
Dec 19th, 2017
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Researchers used a first-of-its-kind device to demonstrate a way to control the direction of the photocurrent without deploying an electric voltage.
Dec 19th, 2017
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In a new paper, scientists describe the underlying mechanisms involved in the formation of a widely used class of quantum dots that use cadmium and selenium compounds as their molecular precursors.
Dec 19th, 2017
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Scientists found out the mathematical method to calculate the temperature at which single walled carbon nanotubes become superconductors and developed a way to increase it thus opening new prospects for superconductive materials applications.
Dec 19th, 2017
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Researchers have experimentally demonstrated how to harness a property called negative capacitance for a new type of transistor that could reduce power consumption, validating a theory proposed in 2008.
Dec 19th, 2017
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