Nanoscience – Page 12
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2D membrane sieves out amino acid enantiomers
Molecular sheets can separate racemic mixtures with high efficiency and selectivity
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Day–night temperature fluctuations power hydrogen evolution
Pyrocatalytic nanoparticles split water and produce hydrogen
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Robots explore chemistry’s dark spaces
Thousands of nanoscale experiments create map of reactions that don’t work
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Carbon bubble-wrap could be packed with interesting behaviour
Theoretical chemists devise nanoscale version of satisfyingly interactive packaging material
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Podcast
Twistacenes
Kat Arney discovers the strange things that happen when organic compounds go round the twist
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Nanofertilisers have huge potential but studies suffer from severe shortcomings
Nanosize agrochemicals promise to boost crop yields but experiments are often inconsistent and unrealistic, analysis reveals
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Turing patterned membrane takes on water purification
Mathematician Alan Turing’s sole chemistry paper inspires self-assembling spotted and striped polymer structures
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Mechanochemistry yields supersized nanographenes
Ball milling produces large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a matter of minutes
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Unlimited combinations possible for new range of atom thick materials
Molten salts allow synthesis of 35 unknown 2D transition metal chalcogenides with many more possible
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Bendy bling: researchers make flexible diamonds
Deformable diamond nano-needles offer new opportunities for allotrope
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Review
Graphene: the superstrong, superthin, and superversatile material that will revolutionize the world
A book that asks whether the ‘wonder material’ will live up to expectations
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Two atom reaction smallest chemistry experiment ever performed
Exquisite manipulation of a single sodium and caesium atom could herald start of an era of total control over chemistry
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Nanoparticle fertilisers show promise
Overuse of traditional chemicals could be tackled using nanotech
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Nanotube water channelling claims challenged
Results from 2017 paper raise questions over the flow rates of water through nanotubes
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Healthier hair in just 10 minutes with graphene dye
Graphene oxide hair dye is not only non-toxic, it also imbues hair with antistatic and thermal conductive properties
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Article
Harnessing electronic display technology in bioimaging
Less toxic than quantum dots, can conjugated polymer nanoparticles revolutionise bioimaging?
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2D gallium stripped from molten metal
Gallenene is the first atomically thin material made by exfoliating a liquid metal
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Mechanochemistry first as reaction driven by pressure
A redox reaction triggered by squeezing a crystal results in the ejection of copper nanoparticles