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ITMO Scientists Create Water-Resistant Perovskite Nanocrystals for Studying Living Cells

ITMO scientists created perovskite nanocrystals that preserve their unique optical properties in water and biological fluids. This material offers new opportunities for the optical visualization of biological objects. It is an important achievement for the investigation of internal organs in living organisms and monitoring of the course of diseases.

20 Sep 2021

Chemists Provide a New Look at the Problem of Energy Efficiency in Lithium-Ion Batteries

An international research team featuring two Skoltech scientists has experimentally demonstrated that a long-standing explanation for low energy efficiency in lithium-ion batteries does not hold.

20 Sep 2021

Silver Nanoparticles Enhance Efficiency of Microbial-Based Fuel Cells

A team of engineers and chemists from UCLA has achieved significant progress in the development of microbial fuel cells. This is a technology that employs natural bacteria to extract electrons from organic matter in wastewater to produce electrical currents.

17 Sep 2021

Scientists Discover a Key Chemical Pathway to an Innovative Insulating Nanomaterial

Collaboration led by PPPL has identified a chemical pathway to an innovative nanomaterial that could lead to large-scale production for applications ranging from spacesuits to military vehicles.

17 Sep 2021

New Kind of Wave Pattern Emerges in Confined Titania Thin Films

Argonne scientists have observed that when the shape of a thin film of metal oxide known as titania is confined at the mesoscale, its conductivity increases. This finding demonstrates that nanoscale confinement is a way to control quantum effects.

14 Sep 2021

ITMO Researchers Create Nanoparticle Paste to Make Perovskite Solar Cells More Efficient

Researchers from ITMO’s School of Physics and Engineering have created a paste of titanium dioxide and resonant silicon nanoparticles that will increase the generation of photocurrent in perovskite solar cells and maximize their efficiency.

13 Sep 2021

Star Attraction: Magnetism Generated In 2D Organic Material by Star-Like Arrangement of Molecules

A 2D nanomaterial consisting of organic molecules linked to metal atoms in a specific atomic-scale geometry shows non-trivial electronic and magnetic properties due to strong interactions between its electrons.

13 Sep 2021

How Nanofibers can Improve the Performance of Biosensors

Biosensors are increasingly being utilized in a range of disciplines, such as the agricultural and food industries. However, they also have applications in environmental control, medical technology, consumer goods and manufacturing liquid puncture label technology.

By Marc Bonne 9 Sep 2021

Researchers Successfully Develop Nanospheres of Silicon Atoms

At the Goethe University in Frankfurt, chemists have developed two new groups of nanomaterials and analyzed them in association with collaborators from the University of Bonn.

9 Sep 2021

Ultrastretchable and High-Performing Supercapacitor Based on Crumpled MXene Electrodes

Researchers in ACS' Nano Letters report a flexible supercapacitor with electrodes made of wrinkled titanium carbide -- a type of MXene nanomaterial -- that maintained its ability to store and release electronic charges after repetitive stretching.

9 Sep 2021

Researchers Develop Organic Nanomaterial Capable of Repelling Water

Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a new nanomaterial capable of repelling water and staying dry even when submerged underwater.

8 Sep 2021

Hyperbolic Metamaterials, Metasurfaces Could Help Achieve Photoluminescence Control

A new study led by Professor Andrei V. Lavrinenko and Dr Pavel N. Melentiev from the DTU Fotonik-Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, and the Nanoplasmonics and Nanophotonics Group, Institute of Spectroscopy RAS, Moscow, Russia, discusses the photoluminescence control by hyperbolic metamaterials and metasurfaces.

7 Sep 2021

Introducing Oxygen Vacancies into Mo-Doped Bi5O7Br Nanosheets Improves N2 fixation

The efficient reduction of nitrogen (N2) to ammonia (NH3) has been a major challenge for decades as it is difficult to break the inert N=N bond due to its extremely large bond energy of 940.95 kJ mol–1.

6 Sep 2021

Poly-Ion Complex Nanomicelles Effectively Deliver Inhibitors to Modulate Lipid Metabolism in Brain Cells

Innovation Center of NanoMedicine and the Basic Sciences Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the International University of Catalunya jointly announced that a research paper "Poly-ion complex micelle effectively delivers CoA-conjugated CPT1A inhibitors to modulate lipid metabolism in brain cells" was published on July 27 in Biomaterials Science.

3 Sep 2021

New Technique Offers Complete 'Made-To-Order' Management of Nanotube Synthesis

The current method of manufacturing carbon nanotubes--in essence rolled up sheets of graphene--is unable to allow complete control over their diameter, length and type.

3 Sep 2021

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ITMO Scientists Create Water-Resistant Perovskite Nanocrystals for Studying Living Cells

Chemists Provide a New Look at the Problem of Energy Efficiency in Lithium-Ion Batteries

Silver Nanoparticles Enhance Efficiency of Microbial-Based Fuel Cells

Scientists Discover a Key Chemical Pathway to an Innovative Insulating Nanomaterial

New Kind of Wave Pattern Emerges in Confined Titania Thin Films

ITMO Researchers Create Nanoparticle Paste to Make Perovskite Solar Cells More Efficient

Star Attraction: Magnetism Generated In 2D Organic Material by Star-Like Arrangement of Molecules

How Nanofibers can Improve the Performance of Biosensors

Researchers Successfully Develop Nanospheres of Silicon Atoms

Ultrastretchable and High-Performing Supercapacitor Based on Crumpled MXene Electrodes

Researchers Develop Organic Nanomaterial Capable of Repelling Water

Hyperbolic Metamaterials, Metasurfaces Could Help Achieve Photoluminescence Control

Introducing Oxygen Vacancies into Mo-Doped Bi5O7Br Nanosheets Improves N2 fixation

Poly-Ion Complex Nanomicelles Effectively Deliver Inhibitors to Modulate Lipid Metabolism in Brain Cells

New Technique Offers Complete 'Made-To-Order' Management of Nanotube Synthesis

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