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Use of copper as a fluorescent material allows for the manufacture of inexpensive and environmentally compatible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Thermally activated delayed fuorescence (TADF... - Novel EU-funded collaborative proteomics project to bring proteomics to clinical application
Novel proteomic technologies that are so robust and powerful that they can be used in every biological laboratory and in every clinic are expected as results of the currently starting research cons... - Remote-controlled robot inspects suitcase bombs
Abandoned items of luggage are frequently found at airports and train stations. This is a case for the emergency services, who have to assume that these items might contain bombs. They must assess ... - How nanoparticles give electrons away
Whether it is in catalytic processes in the chemical industry, environmental catalysis, new types of solar cells or new electronic components, nanoparticles are everywhere in modern production and ... - New polymer solar cell minimizes loss of photon energy
As the world increasingly looks to alternative sources of energy, inexpensive and environmentally friendly polymer-based solar cells have attracted significant attention, but they still do not matc...
- A simple way to remove nanomaterials from contaminated water
Nano implies small-and that's great for use in medical devices, beauty products and smartphones-but it's also a problem. The tiny nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes and other nanomaterials that ma... - New process turns decades into hours for mining-water purification
Cleaning up the water left over from mining operations can literally take generations - 25 to 50 years on average - leaving billions of gallons of the precious resource locked up and useless. Now, ... - Periodic table of protein complexes
The Periodic Table of Protein Complexes, published today in Science, offers a new way of looking at the enormous variety of structures that proteins can build in nature, which ones might be discove... - Nanostructured germanium for portable photovoltaics and battery electrodes
Using a new procedure researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig Maximillians University of Munich (LMU) can now produce extremely thin and robust, yet highly porous sem... - A new sensor to detect physiological levels of nitrate and nitrite
A team led by Professor Takafumi Uchida has created a new technique for visualizing the dynamics of nitrate (NO3-) and nitrite (NO2-), both markers of nitric oxide in a cell. Nitric oxide is a crit... - Microplastics: Rhine One of the Most Polluted Rivers Worldwide
Between Basel and Rotterdam, the Rhine has one of the highest microplastics pollution so far measured in rivers, with the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area showing peak numbers of up to four times the a... - Detection of nano silicon dioxide in tomato soup using MALS-ICP-MS
In a joint project with researchers from the University of Vienna (Austria) and the Technical University of Denmark, JRC scientists developed a suitable analytical approach for the detection of sil... - A probably new way to make X-rays
The most widely used technology for producing X-rays - used in everything from medical and dental imaging, to testing for cracks in industrial materials - has remained essentially the same for more... - Study shows plasmonic sensors and catalysts need not be mutually exclusive
Nanoscale octopods that do double duty as catalysts and plasmonic sensors are lighting a path toward more efficient industrial processes, according to a Rice University scientist. Catalysts are ... - Direct conversion of amorphous carbon into diamond at ambient pressures and temperatures in air
Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a new phase of solid carbon, called Q-carbon, which is distinct from the known phases of graphite and diamond. They have also develo... - Advanced new camera can measure greenhouse gases
A camera so advanced that it can photograph and film methane in the air around us is now presented by a team of researchers from Linköping and Stockholm Universities. It can be an important part of... - Success in producing a completely Rare-Earth free FeNi magnet
Researchers from Tohoku University in Japan have succeeded in producing a completely rare-earth free high-quality FeNi magnet. The team, led by Professor Akihiro Makino as principal investigator is... - Discovery of a new particle
Studying peculiar properties of a long known metallic material researchers have chanced upon a new particle. It is related to the so-called Weyl fermions that the mathematician Hermann Weyl predict... - New X-ray method uses scattering to visualize nanostructures
Both in materials science and in biomedical research it is important to be able to view minute nanostructures, for example in carbon-fiber materials and bones. A team from the Technical University ... - Elucidation of nature of volume isotope effect in ice - An unified volume isotope effect
Investigations into isotopes of hydrogen and their bonds with oxygen at different pressures yield a unified explanation of changes in volume in ice. The most common form of ice existing at ambient ... - Neutrons explain aging process in lithium ion batteries
A key issue with lithium ion batteries is aging. It significantly reduces their potential storage capacity. To date, very little is known about the causes of the aging effects. Scientists from the ... - Adaptable metallic-cage gels could be tuned for applications including drug delivery and water filtration
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) chemists have created a new material that combines the flexibility of polymer gels with the rigid structure provided by metal-based clusters. The new gel... - How electrical stimulation works for the treatment of bacterial infections
The Washington State University researchers passed an electric current over a film of bacteria and in 24 hours killed almost all of a multi-drug resistant bacterium that is often present in difficu... - Charge transport in polymeric carbon nitride detailed for first time
Polymeric carbon nitride is an organic material with interesting optoelectronic properties. As an inexpensive photocatalyst, it can be used to facilitate water splitting using sunlight. Joint resea... - New methods to obtain accurate images of microwave fields
Microwave field imaging is becoming increasingly important, as microwaves play an essential role in modern communications technology and can also be used in medical diagnostics. Researchers from th...