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Farm-Waste-Derived Nanoring Coating to Enhance Urea Use in Rice Crops

A recent study published in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering addresses this issue by creating a sustainable fertilizer with a jute grafted silica nanoring for regulating urea release and increasing the yield of rice plants.

29 Sep 2022

Allectra Announces New Distributors – USA, Australia and New Zealand

To all our customers in the USA, we are excited to announce that Princeton Scientific will be the new sales queries and ordering contact for Allectra High Vacuum and UHV components.

From Allectra Limited 29 Sep 2022

Scalable Growth of Gamma-Graphyne Under Purely Kinetic Control

An article published in the Journal of American Society reported the scalable fabrication of multilayer gamma-graphyne via crystallization-assisted irreversible cross-coupling polymerization.

28 Sep 2022

New Cellulose Nanofiber-Carbon Composite Films for Thin Electronics

Heat dissipation is crucial for preserving the operation of electronic gadgets. However, effective dissipation of heat is a considerable issue for thin-film electronics since traditional heat sinks are large.

27 Sep 2022

Green Synthesis of Antifungal TiO2 Nanoparticles from Papaya Shell

A new study describes the biosynthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles using papaya shell extract, whose antioxidant activity was tested.

27 Sep 2022

Nanograined-Based Strategy to Create High-Performance Metal Nanocomposites

Metals with nanograins have tremendous strength, but they suffer from minimal work hardening capability and poor temperature resistance, resulting in early failure and restricting their operational usefulness.

27 Sep 2022

Creating An Antibacterial and Osteoconductive Ti6Al4V Alloy

Researchers prepared a bioactive Ti6Al4V surface with antibacterial and osteoconductive activity, realized via chemical etching-oxidation treatment and silver nanoparticle’s in situ reductions.

27 Sep 2022

Improving Functional Properties of Paraffin Wax With Nano-Fe2O3

In a study published in the journal Sustainability, different concentrations of nanoscale ferric oxide (Fe2O3) were incorporated in paraffin wax to analyze the improvement in thermal conductivity of the paraffin wax and its thermal stability.

26 Sep 2022

New Technique to Look at the Atoms that Make Up MXenes and Other Nanomaterials

Since the initial discovery of what has become a rapidly growing family of two-dimensional layered materials -; called MXenes -; in 2011, Drexel University researchers have made steady progress in understanding the complex chemical composition and structure, as well as the physical and electrochemical properties, of these exceptionally versatile materials.

26 Sep 2022

Reviewing NEMS Resonators Based on Low-Dimensional Materials

A recent study published in the journal Materials Research Letters provides a detailed overview of the manufacturing, identification, actuation, figures of relevance, and moderating variables of NEMS resonators based on low-dimensional materials.

23 Sep 2022