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New Scalable Method to Create Customizable Nanocarbons On-Demand

Fabrication of flexible and wearable electronics often requires integrating various types of advanced carbon nanomaterials - such as graphene, nanotubes, and nanoporous carbon - because of their remarkable electrical, thermal, and chemical properties.

16 Jun 2020

New Gamme-PNA Nanotechnology Enables Self-Assembly in Organic Solvent Solutions

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with gamma-modified peptide nucleic acid, a synthetic mimic of DNA.

15 Jun 2020

New Graphene-Based Sensor can Detect Histamines, Toxins in Food

Researchers in the USA have developed a graphene-based electrochemical sensor capable of detecting histamines (allergens) and toxins in food much faster than standard laboratory tests.

11 Jun 2020

New Flexible, Recyclable Electrodes for Cheaper Optoelectronics

Australian researchers have demonstrated the strong potential for a new type of flexible, recyclable electrodes to be used in creating cheaper solar cells, touchscreens, wearable 'e-skins' and next-generation responsive windows.

11 Jun 2020

Study Reveals Silicon can be More Deformable, Stronger than Thought

Since the invention of the MOSFET transistor sixty year ago, the chemical element silicon on which it is based has become an integral part of modern life.

11 Jun 2020

Elasticity of Nanopillars in Antibacterial Surfaces is Key to Kill Bacteria

Resistance to antibiotics has become a serious public health problem. Hospital infections, prostheses or surgical implants that become infected and do not respond to treatment are a real challenge to the research community, which has been seeking alternatives for effectively eliminating these bacteria for years.

10 Jun 2020

Structures, Atomic Dynamics of Nanoparticles Predicted by Machine Learning

Researchers at the Nanoscience Center and at the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland have demonstrated that new distance-based machine learning methods, developed in the University of Jyväskylä, are capable of predicting structures and atomic dynamics of nanoparticles reliably.

10 Jun 2020

New Hollow Nanostructures Could Allow Li-Ion Batteries to Hold More Energy

An unexpected property of nanometer-scale antimony crystals -- the spontaneous formation of hollow structures -- could help give the next generation of lithium ion batteries higher energy density without reducing battery lifetime.

10 Jun 2020

Nanostructured, Porous Carbon Materials for Fuel cells, Super Capacitors

Sustainable energy supply and storage is one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century, which the group of Stefan Kaskel, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at TU Dresden, also aims to tackle.

10 Jun 2020