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Scientists Build the World's Smallest and Best Acoustic Amplifier

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have built the world's smallest and best acoustic amplifier. And they did it using a concept that was all but abandoned for almost 50 years.

3 Jun 2021

Using Nanofibrous Filters for Air Purification

In a paper published in NANO, the author reviewed many kinds of nanofibrous filters including the component, preparation process, and application performances to provide directional guidance for improvement of the air purification field.

31 May 2021

Magnetic Nanoparticles Capture Valuable Materials from Brines

A clever idea to use magnetic nanoparticles to capture valuable materials from brines has blossomed into industrial-scale pilot projects that could help make the U.S. a producer of critical minerals used in electronics a...

11 May 2021

Colloidal Nanoparticles Advance Frontiers of Synthetic Chemistry

Researchers from the School of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews (UK) are using a DrySyn Spiral Evaporator from Asynt to help synthesize novel reactive colloidal nanoparticles that present an exciting tool to create a new generation of 'smart' nanomaterials.

From Asynt 5 May 2021

Researchers Create a Scalable Fabrication Technique to Make Graphene Nanoribbons

From radio to television to the internet, telecommunications transmissions are simply information carried on light waves and converted to electrical signals.

4 May 2021

Innovative Membranes for Complete Removal of Heavy Metals from Industrial Wastewater

NUST MISIS scientists together with Indian colleagues from Jain University and Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College presented innovative membranes for the complete removal of heavy metals from industrial wastewater.

23 Apr 2021

New Process Could Lead to Efficient, Reusable Protection from Impacts

According to a new study, motorists, athletes, and soldiers could have their lives secured by a new process that can help develop highly effective and reusable protection from explosion, vibration, as well as shock and impact.

23 Apr 2021

Highly Accurate Physicochemical Characterisation of Small Nanoparticles

Analytik Ltd reports how researchers at the Centre for Bionano Interactions, University College Dublin, Ireland have used a DC24000 ultra high-resolution particle size analyzer for accurate physicochemical characterisation of small-sized nanoparticles.

From Analytik Ltd 15 Apr 2021

Scientists Create Stable Nanosheets with Potential Applications in Nanoelectronics

Scientists create stable nanosheets containing boron and hydrogen atoms with potential applications in nanoelectronics and quantum information technology.

6 Apr 2021

Scientists Investigate Oxygen-Promoted Synthesis of Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons on Cu(111)

On-surface synthesis has received great attention as a method to create atomically-precise one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) polymers with intriguing properties. In particular, graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), a category of quasi-1D nanomaterials derived from graphene, have been widely studied due to their tunable electronic properties and potential applications in semiconductor devices, such as field-effect transistors and spintronics.

5 Apr 2021

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