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New Light-Driven, Water-Splitting Nanodevice to Generate Hydrogen

Solar energy is considered by some to be the ultimate solution to address the current energy crisis and global warming and the environmental crises brought about by excessive consumption of fossil fuels.

10 Jun 2020

Electrode Based on Graphene Oxide, Aramid Nanofiber can Store More Energy

The explosion of mobile electronic devices, electric vehicles, drones and other technologies have driven demand for new lightweight materials that can provide the power to operate them.

5 Jun 2020

The First Nanotube Applications Award Honors the Scientist Revolutionizing Li-Ion Batteries

The first international award established for scientists developing industrial applications of single wall carbon nanotubes has announced its inaugural winner.

From OCSIAL Group 12 Dec 2019

New Phenomenon in 2D Semiconductors Could Boost Efficiency of Future Solar Cells

Physicists from the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), have unraveled a fascinating phenomenon called carrier multiplication (CM) in a group of semiconductors with remarkable thinness, excellent properties, and potential applications in optics and electronics.

3 Dec 2019

Neutron Experiment Used to Detect Nanoparticles in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

For the first time, a team of HZB researchers has precisely examined how nanoparticles of lithium sulfide and sulfur precipitate onto battery electrodes when a charging cycle takes place. The results can help improve the service life of lithium-sculpture batteries.

9 Sep 2019

Researchers Create Quantum Light Sources in Atomically Thin Material Layers

Physicists Alexander Holleitner and Jonathan Finley from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) headed an international research team that has effectively placed light sources in atomically thin material layers with a precision of only a few nanometers.

5 Aug 2019

First Artificial Molecular Machines for Biochemical Synthesis

Molecules are usually synthesized by utilizing stochastic bond-forming collisions of the reactant molecules present in solution, but nature follows an entirely different method in biochemical synthesis.

24 Jul 2019

Nanobio-Hybrid Organisms Use Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen to Produce Plastics and Fuels

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) have successfully produced nanobio-hybrid organisms that can use airborne nitrogen and carbon dioxide (CO2) to create a wide range of fuels and plastics.

12 Jun 2019

Researchers Explore the Growth of Atomically Thin 2D Crystals over Lithographically Patterned Arrays of Nanoscale Shapes

Headed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a group of scientists investigated the way atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) crystals grow on 3D objects and the way these crystals are stretched and strained by the curvature of those objects.

4 Jun 2019

Researchers Design Graphene-Based Electrocatalyst that has Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity

An international team of scientists has recently enhanced the ability of graphene to catalyze the “hydrogen evolution reaction,” which produces hydrogen upon passing an electric current via water during electrolysis.

27 May 2019

Nanoenergy News

New Light-Driven, Water-Splitting Nanodevice to Generate Hydrogen

Electrode Based on Graphene Oxide, Aramid Nanofiber can Store More Energy

The First Nanotube Applications Award Honors the Scientist Revolutionizing Li-Ion Batteries

New Phenomenon in 2D Semiconductors Could Boost Efficiency of Future Solar Cells

Neutron Experiment Used to Detect Nanoparticles in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Researchers Create Quantum Light Sources in Atomically Thin Material Layers

First Artificial Molecular Machines for Biochemical Synthesis

Nanobio-Hybrid Organisms Use Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen to Produce Plastics and Fuels

Researchers Explore the Growth of Atomically Thin 2D Crystals over Lithographically Patterned Arrays of Nanoscale Shapes

Researchers Design Graphene-Based Electrocatalyst that has Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity

Biochar-Modified Titanium Dioxide Nanocomposites for Enhanced Water Treatment

Boosting Hydrogen Fuel Production with TiO2 and Copper-Based MOFs

New Nanocage Material Removes Up to 90% of Toxic PFAS from Water

Enhancing Chitosan Films with Silanized Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Sustainable Applications

N-Doped Ti3O5: Enhanced Photocatalytic Removal of Phenolic Compounds from Wastewater

Overcoming Nanogold Production Challenges

Electrospinning and the Future of Nanotechnology

How Electrospinning is Shaping the Future of Nanotechnology

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