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Tiny Fish Robot Collects Microplastics as it Swims

Microplastics are found nearly everywhere on Earth and can be harmful to animals if they're ingested. But it's hard to remove such tiny particles from the environment, especially once they settle into nooks and crannies at the bottom of waterways.

27 Jun 2022

Self-Healing Superhydrophobic Coating to Prevent Corrosion of Magnesium Alloys

In a recent study, a strong self-healing coating with superhydrophobic capabilities was developed to prevent corrosion of magnesium alloys.

24 Jun 2022

Scientists Develop Nanoparticles to Break Barriers Around Tumors and Target Cancer Cells

Solid tumors develop a strong, impenetrable molecular defensive wall around themselves as they enlarge. It is extremely difficult to get narcotics past the roadblock.

24 Jun 2022

Researchers Develop Stable Fibers Utilizing Boron Nitride Nanotubes

Researchers from the Rice University claim that processing boron nitride nanotubes used to be challenging, but not anymore.

24 Jun 2022

Researchers Design Technique to Align Gold Nanorods With Magnetic Fields

An international team of researchers has established a way for aligning gold nanorods using magnetic fields while retaining the gold nanorods’ underlying optical characteristics.

23 Jun 2022

Nickel Doping Improves Tin Oxide's Dye Degradation Ability

In a new study, researchers compared the photocatalytic degradation properties of pristine SnO2 and nickel-doped SnO2 on industrial dye.

23 Jun 2022

Scientists Devise Nano-Ruler to Shine Light on the Longitudinal Plasmonic Fields in Nanocavities

According to a study published June 19th, 2022, in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a team of researchers engaged in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) developed a nanoruler to throw light on the longitudinal plasmonic fields in nanocavities.

22 Jun 2022

Researchers Win PRACE HPC Excellence Award for Their Revolutionary Work on 2D Materials

A team led by Professor Nicola Marzari, head of Theory and Simulation of Materials at EPFL’s School of Engineering and Materials Simulations at PSI, and director of NCCR MARVEL, has received the first-ever PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) HPC Excellence Award.

22 Jun 2022

Silver Nanowire Transparent Conductive Films with High Uniformity Fabricated via a Dynamic Heating Method

After studying the mechanism of silver nanowire films, a team of researchers led by Shulin Ji from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ (CAS) Hefei Institutes of Physical Science found that the greater the plasticity of the silver nanowire films, the more resistant they were to shear fracture.

21 Jun 2022

Researchers Reveal the Multifunctionality of Polyurea Nanocomposites

New research focuses on producing smart, multifaceted, and structurally robust nanocomposites by combining functionalized graphene nanoplatelets (F-GNPs) with polyurea.

20 Jun 2022