Migrating holes help catalysts to be productive
Dig this: Catalysis appears to function because of holes.
Materials Science
Jan 10, 2022
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For highly active, sustainable catalysts, just add phosphorus
Catalysts are crucial to making industrial processes viable. However, many of the non-precious metal catalysts used for synthesis have low activity, are difficult to handle, and/or require harsh reaction conditions. Osaka ...
Materials Science
Apr 8, 2021
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Light-twisting 'chiral' nanotechnology could accelerate drug screening
A new approach makes liquid-crystal-like beacons out of harmful amyloid proteins present in diseases such as Type II diabetes.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 26, 2021
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Controlling ultra-strong light-matter coupling at room temperature
Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, together with colleagues in Russia and Poland, have managed to achieve ultra-strong coupling between light and matter at room temperature. The discovery is of importance ...
General Physics
Sep 23, 2020
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Expanding the plasmonic painter's palette
By blending paints in their palette, artists can create a broad spectrum of colors with subtly different hues. However, scientists who wish to create a similar range of structural colors, like those found on butterfly wings, ...
Nanophysics
Mar 4, 2020
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A new template for nonspherical viral nanocages
In nature, viruses use nanocages to protect their genome. Some of these viruses can be disassembled into protein units to remove their genome. These protein units can then be reassembled into nanocages by other templates, ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 28, 2020
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Scientists disentangle protein-nanoparticle interactions, suggest path to drug-sensing tool
It's always good when your intuition turns out to be right, but scientists at Rice University studying proteins and particles were more "right" than they expected.
Materials Science
Sep 26, 2019
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Using nature to produce a revolutionary optical material
An international team of researchers has reported a new way to safeguard drones, surveillance cameras and other equipment against laser attacks, which can disable or destroy the equipment. The capability is known as optical ...
Nanophysics
Sep 5, 2019
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Bottles made of lignocellulose, perfumes made from apples
Many companies are working on materials that would be as light and resistant as plastic but at the same time fully biodegradable. What if they could be made from... rubbish? A modern, ecological (waste-free—the conversion ...
Materials Science
Aug 19, 2019
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Scientists can now control thermal profiles at the nanoscale
At human scale, controlling temperature is a straightforward concept. Turtles sun themselves to keep warm. To cool a pie fresh from the oven, place it on a room-temperature countertop.
Nanomaterials
Aug 10, 2019
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