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Using Technosols and Mineral Nanoparticles to Recover Degraded Environments

Technosols are artificial soils that have been made from organic or inorganic waste and are designed to perform similar environmental functions as naturally occurring soils.

18 Jan 2022

Researchers Make a Versatile Metal-Organic Framework into Nanocrystals

A new kind of tiny particle is a big deal in University of Oregon chemist Carl Brozek's lab. He and his team have made a versatile kind of porous material called a metal-organic framework, or MOF, into nanocrystals--a form that's easier to use beyond the lab.

13 Jan 2022

Modifying Hybrid-Perovskite Solar Cells Using Double-Perovskite Nanocrystals

Perovskites have emerged as attractive materials for the design of next-generation photovoltaic solar cell devices due to their excellent properties. However, like all materials, fine-tuning these properties to improve their application is a central focus of current research on perovskites.

13 Jan 2022

Wasatch Photonics and Nikalyte Partner to Advance Application of SERS

Morrisville, N.C. – January 10, 2022 – Wasatch Photonics and Nikalyte Ltd. are pleased to announce a partnership to facilitate evaluation and testing of a novel SERS substrate for trace detection of mate...

From Wasatch Photonics, Inc. 11 Jan 2022

A Single Molecule Helps Researchers Understand the Two Types of Water

Water has a fundamental role to play in the existence of humans and is a huge component of our universe, yet there are still many things that are not clear about it.

7 Jan 2022

Phosphate Removal from Wastewater Using Nanoparticles

A novel finding to remove phosphate from wastewater was written in Science of The Total Environment. Phosphorus adsorption is improved across a wide temperature range.

7 Jan 2022

Water Purification with Ceramic Beads

In an article recently published in the journal Materials, researchers synthesized heterogeneous nanostructured photocatalyst ceramic beads for the degradation of both organic and inorganic water pollutants.

7 Jan 2022

Plascmon-Enhanced Nanosoldering for Improving the Conductivity of Nanoelectrodes

In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; the research groups of Professor Xuan-Ming Duan from Jinan University Guangzhou, China and Professor Mei-Ling Zheng from the Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China discuss plasmon-enhanced nanosoldering of silver nanoparticles for high-conductive nanowires electrodes.

6 Jan 2022

Imidazole as Solvent for the Synthesis of Carbon Supported Cobalt Nanoparticles Catalyst

This study is led by Dr. Shaojun Dong (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences). At the beginning of this work, researchers wanted to design a simple method to synthesize Co nanoparticles.

29 Dec 2021

Building Polymer Dots with Conjugated Polymers Embedded in Hydrogels

A group of researchers has successfully fabricated a thermal detection polymer hydrogel using conjugated polymer nanoparticles and a fluorescence modulation technique, according to a study published recently in the journal Polymers.

28 Dec 2021

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