Ultra-thin designer materials unlock quantum phenomena
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A team of theoretical and experimental physicists have designed a new ultra-thin material that they have used to create elusive quantum states. Called one-dimensional Majorana zero energy modes, these quantum states could have a huge impact ...
Graphene production systems maker planarTECH launches an equity crowdfunding campaign to support its
News30Days Ago (12-16)
UK-based planarTECH is launching an equity crowdfunding campaign at on Seedrs, as part of Graphene-Info's Graphene Crowdfunding Arena. planarTECH aims to expand its current business and also initiate new graphene endeavors. planarTECH, foun...
Well oriented: Catalysts for isotactic polar polypropylenes
News31Days Ago (12-16)
Polypropylene (PP) is one of the most widely used plastics in the world. By controlling the spatial orientation of the propylene building blocks and additional polar components, it should be possible to create a new generation of attractive...
Small: a variety of ultra fine and highly active metal nanoparticles with narrow size distribution ca
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metal materials are widely used in the field of catalysis their catalytic activity is closely related to their size. The percentage of surface atoms of 1-2nm MNPs is as high as 80-90%. A large number of unsaturated bonds of surface atoms ca...
Tough, flexible sensor invented for wearable tech
News34Days Ago (12-12)
Researchers have used 3-D printing and nanotechnology to create a durable, flexible sensor for wearable devices to monitor everything from vital signs to athletic performance. The new technology, developed by engineers at the University of...
Nanomotors as probes to sense cancer environment
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Nanomotors can swim past non-cancerous cells but adhere to the charged cancer secreted matrix in a tumor model. This can be used to localise a swarm of nanomotors near cancerous cells within a tumor Credit: Debayan Dasgupta An interdiscipli...
Three-dimensional superlattice engineering with block copolymer epitaxy
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Controlling the symmetry and orientation of a BCP superlattice. (A) Schematic of the chemoepitaxy process flow. A 2D template is lithographically defined. A BCP is then spin coated onto the template. Thermal annealing enables DSA of the BCP...
Scientists find path to nanodiamond from graphene
News38Days Ago (12-08)
Marrying two layers of graphene is an easy route to the blissful formation of nanoscale diamond, but sometimes thicker is better. While it may only take a bit of heat to turn a treated bilayer of the ultrathin material into a cubic lattice...