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New Hybrid Nanocomposites Could be Used as Effective Photocatalysts

Photoactive materials have become extremely popular in a large variety of applications in the fields of photocatalytic degradation of pollutants, water splitting, organic synthesis, photoreduction of carbon dioxide, and others.

9 Jun 2020

Highly Porous Ultrathin Membrane can Filter Harmful Ions from Water

In a world-first, an international research team, led by Monash University and ANSTO, has created an ultrathin porous membrane to completely separate potentially harmful ions, such as lead and mercury, from water.

9 Jun 2020

Novel Nanobrush Could be Useful to Learn More About Interfacial Materials

A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory synthesized a tiny structure with high surface area and discovered how its unique architecture drives ions across interfaces to transport energy or information.

9 Jun 2020

New Photocatalyst can Offer Higher Hydrogen Yield from Water

In line with the depletion of fossil fuels and the environmental problems our planet faces due to their combustion, developing technology for clean energy generation is a topic of global interest.

9 Jun 2020

Easy, Affordable Tool to Count and Characterize Nanoparticles

Rice University scientists have developed an easy and affordable tool to count and characterize nanoparticles.

9 Jun 2020

Study Shows Boron Ion-Doped Silicon Exhibits Increased Thermal Stability

Silicon is the main material in electronic engineering. All information and computing technologies that play a key role in modern civilization are based on silicon: computers, communications, astronautics, biomedicine, robotics and much more.

8 Jun 2020

Study Shows Carbon Quantum Dots can be Used to Combat Neurological Disorders

The contributions of researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) have yielded the first indication that carbon quantum dots, a class of nanoparticles, can be utilized to combat neurological disorders, according to a paper published in the journal Processes as part its special issue on protein biosynthesis and drug design and delivery

8 Jun 2020

New Supercapacitor Electrode Made of Reduced Graphene Oxide, Aramid Nanofiber

The explosion of mobile electronic devices, electric vehicles, drones and other technologies have driven demand for new lightweight materials that can provide the power to operate them.

5 Jun 2020

New Method to Assemble Single Nanoparticles Directly into Pre-Patterned Template

Smart phones, tablets and laptop displays, camera lenses, biosensing devices, integrated chips and solar photovoltaic cells are among the applications that could stand to benefit from an innovative method of nanocrystal assembly pioneered by Australian scientists.

4 Jun 2020

New Nanoparticle can Produce Green Coherent Light at Room Temperature

An international team of researchers led by researchers from ITMO University announced the development of the world's most compact semiconductor laser that works in the visible range at room temperature.

4 Jun 2020

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