Category: Nanotech

The picture shows mechanism of nanoreactor. The hollow structure of the Pt NPs@MnOx nanoreactor affords a confined space in which reactants enter via directional diffusion driven by the concentration gradient. Then, selective adsorption reduces the internal reactant concentrations, which would promote the in-diffusion of reactants consistently. After the reaction with abundant hydrogen atoms, the weak…

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Nov 01, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Optical tweezers manipulate tiny things like cells and nanoparticles using lasers. While they might sound like tractor beams from science fiction, the fact is their development garnered scientists a Nobel Prize in 2018. Scientists have now used supercomputers to make optical tweezers safer to use on living cells with applications…

The illustration shows the MoS2 lattice structure (green: Mo, yellow: S). The material after cleaving is shown in the forefront, the surface is jagged, and the measured surface electronic structure is inhomogeneous (colored map). In the back is the cleaved material after exposure to atomic hydrogen (represented by the white balls). The measured surface electronic…

Physical mechanisms of time-resolved hotopolarization current response and energy band structure. Credit: Research In the context of the development of smart health care towards digitalization, the new generation of photodetectors has a wide range of application prospects and huge market value. The characteristics of graphene material, such as large carrier mobility, excellent optical transparency and…

Nov 01, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) is a highly versatile material that can function, for example, as a gas sensor or as a photocatalyst in green hydrogen production. Although the understanding of a material usually starts from investigating its bulk crystalline form, for MoS2 much more studies have been devoted to mono and…

Nov 01, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A team of university and industry researchers is developing new formulations and manufacturing processes for the messenger RNA (mRNA) delivery systems used in some COVID vaccines. The mRNA-based vaccines that came out during the COVID-19 pandemic required storage at subzero temperatures. “They were shipped around the world as a piece…

A rendering of a protein nanowire (yellow) cutting through a protein blob (gray) with electron carriers (orange) traveling along it. Credit: Martin Kulke The movement of electrons across wires is what allows us to use electricity every day. Biological nanowires, microscopic wires made of proteins, have caught researchers’ attention for their ability to carry electrons…

Nov 01, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The movement of electrons across wires is what allows us to use electricity every day. Biological nanowires, microscopic wires made of proteins, have caught researchers’ attention for their ability to carry electrons over long distances. In a recent study published in Small (“Long-Range Electron Transport Rates Depend on Wire Dimensions…