Nanotechnology News

New wood-based technology removes 80% of dye pollutants in wastewater

 Nanotechnology News
 23 March 2023
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a new method that can easily purify contaminated water using a cellulose-based material. This discovery could have implications for countries with poor water treatment technologies and combat the widespread problem of toxic dye...

New composite material to create green hydrogen

 Nanotechnology News
 22 March 2023
Researchers from the University of Twente developed a new composite material that outperforms the individual compounds by one to two orders of magnitude. The composite consists of several earth-abundant elements, that could potentially be used for efficient hydrogen generation without rare and...

Developing smart light traps inspired by photosynthesis

 Nanotechnology News
 21 March 2023
Plants use photosynthesis to harvest energy from sunlight. Now researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have applied this principle as the basis for developing new sustainable processes which in the future may produce syngas (synthetic gas) for the large-scale chemical industry and be...

Batteries: Passivation layer mystery solved

 Nanotechnology News
 21 March 2023
In our daily lives, lithium-ion batteries have become indispensable. They function only because of a passivation layer that forms during their initial cycle. As researchers found out via simulations, this solid electrolyte interphase develops not directly at the electrode but aggregates in the...

Nanotechnology could be used to treat lymphedema

 Nanotechnology News
 20 March 2023
The human body is made up of thousands of tiny lymphatic vessels that ferry white blood cells and proteins around the body, like a superhighway of the immune system. It's remarkably efficient, but if damaged from injury or cancer treatment, the whole system starts to fail. The resulting fluid...

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