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October 15, 2018
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Big discoveries about tiny particles



Newark DE (SPX) Oct 09, 2018
From photonics to pharmaceuticals, materials made with polymer nanoparticles hold promise for products of the future. However, there are still gaps in understanding the properties of these tiny plastic-like particles. Now, Hojin Kim, a graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, together with a team of collaborating scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany, Princeton University and the University of Trento, has uncovered ne ... read more

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Precise control of multimetallic one-nanometer cluster formation achieved
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 01, 2018
Researchers in Japan have found a way to create innovative materials by blending metals with precision control. Their approach, based on a concept called atom hybridization[1], opens up an unexplore ... more
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Nucleation a boon to sustainable nanomanufacturing
Saint Louis MO (SPX) Sep 27, 2018
Calcium carbonate is found nearly everywhere, in sidewalk cement, wall paint, antacid tablets and deep underground. Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have used a unique set of state-of ... more
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Two quantum dots are better than one: Using one dot to sense changes in another
Osaka, Japan (SPX) Sep 27, 2018
Quantum dots are nanometer-sized boxes that have attracted huge scientific interest for use in nanotechnology because their properties obey quantum mechanics and are requisites to develop advanced e ... more
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New nanoparticle superstructures made from pyramid-shaped building blocks
Providence RI (SPX) Sep 25, 2018
Researchers from Brown University have assembled complex macroscale superstructures from pyramid-shaped nanoparticle building blocks. The research, described in the journal Nature, demonstrates a pr ... more


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Cannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructures
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Sep 04, 2018
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic "building blocks" from which stable structures formed. ... more
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First-ever colored thin films of nanotubes created
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 31, 2018
Single-walled carbon nanotubes, or sheets of one atom-thick layers of graphene rolled up into different sizes and shapes, have found many uses in electronics and new touch screen devices. By nature, ... more
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Nanotubes change the shape of water
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 27, 2018
First, according to Rice University engineers, get a nanotube hole. Then insert water. If the nanotube is just the right width, the water molecules will align into a square rod. Rice materials ... more
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Fast visible-UV light nanobelt photodetector
Bejing, China (SPX) Aug 27, 2018
Compared with traditional thin-film photodetectors, one-dimensional nanostructures have larger surface-to-volume ratio, smaller size and higher carrier mobility, and thus tend to exhibit higher sens ... more
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Big-picture thinking can advance nanoparticle manufacturing
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2018
Nanoparticle manufacturing, the production of material units less than 100 nanometers in size (100,000 times smaller than a marble), is proving the adage that "good things come in small packages." ... more
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Hybrid nanomaterials bristle with potential
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Aug 14, 2018
By combining multiple nanomaterials into a single structure, scientists can create hybrid materials that incorporate the best properties of each component and outperform any single substance. A cont ... more
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Nanotube 'rebar' makes graphene twice as tough
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 06, 2018
Rice University researchers have found that fracture-resistant "rebar graphene" is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene. Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon. On the two-dimen ... more
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Individual silver nanoparticles observed in real time
Bochum, Germany (SPX) Aug 03, 2018
Chemists at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum have developed a new method of observing the chemical reactions of individual silver nanoparticles, which only measure a thousandth of the thickness of a human ha ... more
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Researchers use nanotechnology to improve the accuracy of measuring devices
Moscow (SPX) Jul 30, 2018
Scientists from Higher school of economics and the Federal Scientific Research Centre 'Crystallography and Photonics' have synthesized multi-layered nanowires in order to study their magnetoresistan ... more
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A new 'periodic table' for nanomaterials
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Jul 24, 2018
The approach was developed by Daniel Packwood of Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and Taro Hitosugi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. It involves connec ... more


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Squeezing light at the nanoscale
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 18, 2018
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new technique to squeeze infrared light into ultra-confined spaces, generating an intens ... more
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A new way to measure energy in microscopic machines
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2018
What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists call "free energy," essentially the energy that can be extracted from any system to perform useful work ... more
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AI-based method could speed development of specialized nanoparticles
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 04, 2018
A new technique developed by MIT physicists could someday provide a way to custom-design multilayered nanoparticles with desired properties, potentially for use in displays, cloaking systems, or bio ... more
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Atomically thin nanowires convert heat to electricity more efficiently
Warwick UK (SPX) Jun 04, 2018
Waste heat can be converted to electricity more efficiently using one-dimensional nanoscale materials as thin as an atom - ushering a new way of generating sustainable energy - thanks to new researc ... more
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Researchers use magnets to move tiny DNA-based nano-devices
Columbus OH (SPX) Jun 04, 2018
Researchers have devised a magnetic control system to make tiny DNA-based robots move on demand - and much faster than recently possible. In the journal Nature Communications, Carlos Castro and Ratn ... more
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Change the face of nanoparticles and you'll rule chemistry
Warsaw, Poland (SPX) May 29, 2018
Change the face of nanoparticles and you'll rule chemistry! Depending on the lighting, the surface of appropriately crafted nanoparticles can change its topography. Researchers from the Institute of ... more
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SpaceX delays Israel's first lunar mission to early 2019
Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 11, 2018
The Israeli organisation behind the country's first mission to the moon on Wednesday announced a delay in the vessel's launch from December to early 2019. SpaceIL said Elon Musk's SpaceX firm, whose rockets are set to carry the unmanned probe into space, had informed it of "a delay of a number of weeks to the beginning of 2019." SpaceIL stressed that the delay was SpaceX's decision, not ... more
+ First Man: a new vision of the Apollo 11 mission to set foot on the Moon
+ Lockheed Martin solicits ideas for commercial payloads on Orion spacecraft
+ Lunar craters named in honor of Apollo 8
+ Bezos' Blue Origin signs on to ship supplies to Moon by 2023
+ Lockheed Martin Reveals New Human Lunar Lander Concept
+ NASA, Israel Space Agency Sign Agreement for Commercial Lunar Cooperation
+ China planning probes, manned missions, ultimately a base on moon - Space Chief
China launches Centispace-1-s1 satellite
Jiuquan (XNA) Oct 01, 2018
China launched its Centispace-1-s1 satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:13 p.m. Saturday. This is the second commercial launch by the Kuaizhou-1A rocket. The first launch in January 2017 sent three satellites into space. The Kuaizhou-1A was developed by a rocket technology company under the China Aerospace Science and Industr ... more
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+ China developing in-orbit satellite transport vehicle


Facebook says hackers accessed data of 29 mn users
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 12, 2018
Facebook said Friday that hackers accessed personal data of 29 million users in a breach at the world's leading social network disclosed late last month. The company had originally said up to 50 million accounts were affected in a cyberattack that exploited a trio of software flaws to steal "access tokens" that enable people to automatically log back onto the platform. "We now know that ... more
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+ New Pentagon weapons systems easily hacked: report
+ Google says social network bug exposed private data
+ Ahead of US election, angst over hacking threats
+ China used tiny chips on US computers to steal secrets: report
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+ US to let NATO use its cyber defence skills
SpaceX delays Israel's first lunar mission to early 2019
Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 11, 2018
The Israeli organisation behind the country's first mission to the moon on Wednesday announced a delay in the vessel's launch from December to early 2019. SpaceIL said Elon Musk's SpaceX firm, whose rockets are set to carry the unmanned probe into space, had informed it of "a delay of a number of weeks to the beginning of 2019." SpaceIL stressed that the delay was SpaceX's decision, not ... more
+ First Man: a new vision of the Apollo 11 mission to set foot on the Moon
+ Lockheed Martin solicits ideas for commercial payloads on Orion spacecraft
+ Lunar craters named in honor of Apollo 8
+ Bezos' Blue Origin signs on to ship supplies to Moon by 2023
+ Lockheed Martin Reveals New Human Lunar Lander Concept
+ NASA, Israel Space Agency Sign Agreement for Commercial Lunar Cooperation
+ China planning probes, manned missions, ultimately a base on moon - Space Chief
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Big discoveries about tiny particles
Newark DE (SPX) Oct 09, 2018
From photonics to pharmaceuticals, materials made with polymer nanoparticles hold promise for products of the future. However, there are still gaps in understanding the properties of these tiny plastic-like particles. Now, Hojin Kim, a graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, together with a team of collaborating scientists at the Max Planck ... more
+ Precise control of multimetallic one-nanometer cluster formation achieved
+ Two quantum dots are better than one: Using one dot to sense changes in another
+ Nucleation a boon to sustainable nanomanufacturing
+ New nanoparticle superstructures made from pyramid-shaped building blocks
+ Cannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructures
+ First-ever colored thin films of nanotubes created
+ Nanotubes change the shape of water
After two long careers, QuikSCAT rings down the curtain
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2018
Launched in June 1999 for an intended two-year mission, NASA's SeaWinds scatterometer instrument on the QuikSCAT spacecraft was turned off on Oct. 2 in accordance with its end-of-mission plan. QuikSCAT spent its first decade creating an unprecedented record of the speed and direction of winds at the ocean surface. Then, for another nine years, it served as the gold standard of accuracy against w ... more
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+ Innovative tool allows continental-scale water, energy, and land system modeling
+ China launches new remote sensing satellites
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+ Monitoring the air pollution in China from geostationary satellites is explored
+ Wind holds key to climate change turnaround


Big discoveries about tiny particles
Newark DE (SPX) Oct 09, 2018
From photonics to pharmaceuticals, materials made with polymer nanoparticles hold promise for products of the future. However, there are still gaps in understanding the properties of these tiny plastic-like particles. Now, Hojin Kim, a graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, together with a team of collaborating scientists at the Max Planck ... more
+ Precise control of multimetallic one-nanometer cluster formation achieved
+ Two quantum dots are better than one: Using one dot to sense changes in another
+ Nucleation a boon to sustainable nanomanufacturing
+ New nanoparticle superstructures made from pyramid-shaped building blocks
+ Cannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructures
+ First-ever colored thin films of nanotubes created
+ Nanotubes change the shape of water
No more Iron Man: submarines now have soft, robotic arms
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 10, 2018
The human arm can perform a wide range of extremely delicate and coordinated movements, from turning a key in a lock to gently stroking a puppy's fur. The robotic "arms" on underwater research submarines, however, are hard, jerky, and lack the finesse to be able to reach and interact with creatures like jellyfish or octopuses without damaging them. Previously, the Wyss Institute for Biolog ... more
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+ Spray coated tactile sensor on a 3D surface for robotic skin
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AeroVironment contracted for Raven drones, spares, training
Washington (UPI) Oct 11, 2018
AeroVironment has received a $13 million contract for Raven RQ-11B small unmanned aircraft systems. The contract, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, covers recurring requirements for RQ-11B SUAS, spare parts, related equipment and training. The SUAS will be directed to the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility, which includes nations in Central America, South ... more
+ Airbus, Boeing and Uber partner with Amsterdam Drone Week
+ DARPA seeks proposals for 3rd OFFSET Swarm Sprint, awards 2nd Contracts
+ Air Force designates GO1 hypersonic flight research vehicle as X-60A
+ General Atomics to provide technical services for Gray Eagle drones
+ Raytheon to deliver small drone decoys to the U.S. Navy
+ Self-flying glider 'learns' to soar like a bird
+ General Atomics contracted for Reaper drone ground control work
The future of electronic devices: Strong and self-healing ion gels
Yokohama, Japan (SPX) Oct 15, 2018
Scientists at Yokohama National University and the University of Tokyo in Japan have designed an ion gel with excellent toughness and an ability to self-heal at ambient temperature without any external trigger or detectable change in the environment such as light or temperature. This new class of material has promising potential for building flexible electronic devices. Ion gels have attra ... more
+ Precise electron spin control yields faster memory storage
+ Study demonstrates new mechanism for developing electronic devices
+ Nanoscale pillars as a building block for future information technology
+ Defects promise quantum communication through standard optical fiber
+ A new way to count qubits
+ Qualcomm alleges Apple gave swiped chip secrets to Intel
+ Smaller, faster and more efficient modulator sets to revolutionize optoelectronic industry


Novel machine learning based framework could lead to breakthroughs in material design
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Oct 11, 2018
Computers used to take up entire rooms. Today, a two-pound laptop can slide effortlessly into a backpack. But that wouldn't have been possible without the creation of new, smaller processors - which are only possible with the innovation of new materials. But how do materials scientists actually invent new materials? Through experimentation, explains Sanket Deshmukh, an assistant professor ... more
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+ Army research lights the way for new materials
+ Raytheon's new AN/SPY-6V radar tracks ballistic missile in test
+ HII plans installation of first 3D-printed aircraft carrier part
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Human rights situation 'dire' in China: US Congress
Washington (AFP) Oct 10, 2018
China is undertaking unprecedented repression of its ethnic minorities including Muslim Uighurs, with authoritarian tactics potentially constituting "crimes against humanity" as human rights conditions deteriorate, a damning US congressional report released Wednesday concluded. The bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China said in its annual report repression has worsened in rec ... more
+ Ousted Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker barred from by-election
+ China's ultra wealthy buffeted as trade war bites
+ Hong Kong will 'fearlessly take action' against independence talk
+ China warns against foreign interference as Hong Kong bans journalist
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+ FT journalist given seven days to leave Hong Kong
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Ultrafast optical fiber-based electron gun to reveal atomic motions
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 10, 2018
One of the most enduring "Holy Grail" experiments in science has been attempts to directly observe atomic motions during structural changes. This prospect underpins the entire field of chemistry because a chemical process occurs during a transition state - the point of no return separating the reactant configuration from the product configuration. What does that transition state look like ... more
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+ Single atoms break carbon's strongest bond
+ Observations challenge cosmological theories
GRACE-FO Satellite Switching to Backup Instrument Processing Unit
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 17, 2018
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission team plans to switch to a backup system in the Microwave Instrument (MWI) on one of the twin spacecraft this month. Following the switch-over, GRACE-FO is expected to quickly resume science data collection. A month after launching this past May, GRACE-FO produced its first preliminary gravity field map. The mission ha ... more
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+ Einstein's Theory of Gravity Still Passes the Test
+ VLT makes most precise test of Einstein's general relativity outside Milky Way


Efficiently turning light into electricity
Osaka, Japan (SPX) Oct 12, 2018
Perovskites form a group of crystals that have many promising properties for applications in nano-technology. However, one useful property that so far was unobserved in perovskites is so-called carrier multiplication - an effect that makes materials much more efficient in converting light into electricity. New research performed in collaboration between the University of Amsterdam (UA) and ... more
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+ Philippines revs up flagging green energy engine
+ Supersizing solar cells: researchers print module six times bigger than previous largest
+ Simple fabrication of full-color perovskite LEDs
+ Artificial enzymes convert solar energy into hydrogen gas
+ New Solar Bible Happily Includes CPUC Required Solar Information Disclosures in latest 265 Page Edition
+ China to lead world's renewable energy consumption by 2023: IEA
French Space Agency opens new office in the UAE
Abu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Oct 12, 2018
The French Ambassador to the UAE announced that the universe being the limit for the developing partnership between the two countries, i.e. the UAE and France. This statement was made, immediately after the inauguration of an office in Abu Dhabi by the French Space Agency. The Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) became the first foreign space agency that introduced a representation o ... more
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+ Maxar's SSL Continues Positive Momentum in Growing US Government Pipeline
+ Space techpreneur to set up over $100m venture unit
+ Britain and Australia enter into space agreement
+ See the future at ESA's IAC Start-up Space Zone
+ Reflecting on Europe's commanding role in space
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