The Feb. 24, 2014 Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces news release, which originated the news item, explains the importance
of nanoporous or mesoporous materials, natural and manufactured,
«Synergetic effects
of nanoporous support and urea on enzyme activity.»
A few kilometres away in Sion, high in the Swiss Alps, computational chemist Berend Smit has set up another EPFL centre that develops algorithms for predicting hundreds of thousands
of nanoporous zeolites and metal — organic frameworks.
Not exact matches
The research paper is titled «Charge - specific Size - dependent Separation
of Water - soluble Organic Molecules by Fluorinated
Nanoporous Networks.»
«Our method
of producing
nanoporous silicon anodes is low - cost and scalable for mass production in industrial manufacturing, which makes silicon a promising anode material for the next generation
of lithium - ion batteries,» said Zhou.
ORNL's bioreactor features elegance through a permeable
nanoporous membrane and serpentine design fabricated using a combination
of electron beam and photolithography and advanced material deposition processes.
In this starting new collaborative project, Nagoya University, Kyoto University, and Air Liquide will reinforce the innovative
nanoporous materials, or «sponge materials,» to be identified for highly efficient abilities in separation, storage, and release
of gas molecules.
«Studying argon gas trapped in two - dimensional array
of tiny «cages»: Understanding how individual atoms enter and exit the
nanoporous frameworks could help scientists design new materials for gas separation and nuclear waste remediation.»
Attacking the perennial problem
of systemic toxicity from typical chemotherapy treatments, Dartmouth investigators, led by Barjor Gimi, PhD, have engineered therapeutic cells encapsulated in
nanoporous capsules to secrete antitumor molecules from within the tumor.
In the case
of Ge - based semiconductors a lot
of work was done on the direct tailoring
of the material geometry (nanowires, phononic crystals,
nanoporous materials, etc.) achieving for example materials with ultra-low thermal conductivity.
Systems recently investigated include a partial oxidation
of alcohols on supported WO3 clusters and on rutile TiO2 (110) surface, water - oxygen reactions on TiO2 (110), numerous adsorbates on epitaxial MgO (100) and
nanoporous MgO films, ethylene hydrogenation on thin epitaxial and
nanoporous Pd films, and most recently CO2 on TiO2 (110).
However the fraction
of chemically active, high energy binding sites is greatly enhanced on the
nanoporous film.
One year ago, we cited a breakthrough
nanoporous silicon oxide technology for resistive random - access memory (RRAM) developed by the research group
of James Tour, winner
of the 2008 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in the Experimental category.
The layered structure consists
of tantalum,
nanoporous tantalum oxide and multilayer graphene between two platinum electrodes.
ALD coatings on
nanoporous materials with unimodal feature / pore sizes can also be used to fine tune the pore size
of the material.
Researchers at Stanford University, with colleagues in China, have developed a tandem solar cell consisting
of an approximately 700 - nm - thick
nanoporous Mo - doped bismuth vanadate (BiVO4)(Mo: BiVO4) layer on an engineered Si nanocone substrate.