A research team from the Department of Applied Chemistry and Life Science at the Toyohashi University of Technology has discovered a phenomenon in which specific lipids were concentrated on graphene oxide in a multicomponent lipid… Read More »Researchers investigate ‘lipid raft’ phenomenon on nanocarbon surfaces
When Ange Nzihou, an expert in converting society’s waste into valuable products, visited Princeton in 2022, he brought with him a technique to transform waste biomass into graphene, a material with many uses from batteries… Read More »Engineers reveal the secrets behind green graphene
New University of Alberta research is fluttering closer to turning chicken feathers into an effective filter for water decontamination. Read More | Phys.org news tagged with:graphene Biochemistry Materials Science
Passive mode-locked technology utilizes saturable absorbers’ nonlinear absorption effect to regulate the cavity’s loss and phase to generate mode-locked pulses. Graphene has a unique energy bandgap structure, a low absorption coefficient, a considerable modulation depth,… Read More »When graphene serves as a saturable absorber, it can generate two types of mode-locking states
Recognizing the ultrafast laser-to-thermal conversion capacity and the impermeable, flexible features of graphene Dr. Ye-Chuang Han and Prof. Zhong-Qun Tian conceived the idea of using the material as the diffusion-constrained nanoreactor for high-temperature reactions. Read… Read More »Overcoming the trade-off between sub-nanometer size and high metal loading in meta cluster catalysts
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have attracted much attention due to their unique electronic structures with high tunability of physical structures. Read More | Phys.org news tagged with:graphene Nanomaterials
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have invented a coating that could dramatically reduce friction in common load-bearing systems with moving parts, from vehicle drive trains to wind and hydroelectric turbines.… Read More »Superlubricity coating could reduce economic losses from friction and wear
Identifying whether and how a nanoparticle and protein will bind with one another is an important step toward being able to design antibiotics and antivirals on demand, and a computer model developed at the University… Read More »Nanobiotics: AI for discovering where and how nanoparticles bind with proteins
A team of researchers from Nanjing University has developed a probiotic nanozyme hydrogel to regulate the vaginal microenvironment for Candida vaginitis therapy. Candida vaginitis, a common fungal infection that affects about 75% of women worldwide,… Read More »Nanozyme hydrogel: A breakthrough solution for Candida vaginitis treatment
Ever since the discovery of the two-dimensional form of graphite (called graphene) almost twenty years ago, interest in 2D materials and their special physical properties has skyrocketed. Famously, graphene was produced by exfoliating bulk graphite… Read More »Producing large, clean 2D materials made easy: Just ‘KISS’