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Novel nanostructures for efficient long-range energy transport

This is a supramolecular nanofiber consisting of more than 10,000 perfectly ordered building blocks, which enables an energy transport over...

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Laser-burned graphene gains metallic powers: Rice University scientists find possible replacement for platinum as catalyst

Rice University chemists have found a way to embed metallic nanoparticles into laser-induced graphene. The particles turn the material into...

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Iranian Scientists Utilize Nanomembranes to Purify Wastewater of Olive Oil Plants

Iranian researchers studied and compared the performance of various types of laboratorial and commercial membranes in purification of...

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Surprising discoveries about 2-D molybdenum disulfide: Berkeley Lab researchers use award-winning campanile probe on promising semiconductor

With the Campanile probe, optical excitation and collection are spatially confined to the nano-sized gap at the apex of the tip, which is...

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Surprising discoveries about 2-D molybdenum disulfide: Berkeley Lab researchers use award-winning campanile probe on promising semiconductor

With the Campanile probe, optical excitation and collection are spatially confined to the nano-sized gap at the apex of the tip, which is...

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State aid: Commission approves £50 million UK support for the research and development of an innovative space launcher engine

The European Commission has found that a £50 million (around €71 million) grant that the UK authorities intend to provide for designing a SABRE space launcher engine is in line with EU state aid rules. SABRE is a research and development (R&D)...

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Attosecond physics: Attosecond electron catapult: Physicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich studied the interaction of light with tiny glass particles

Directional electron acceleration on glass nanospheres. A femtosecond laser pulse (coming from the left) hits a glass nanosphere. The light...