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Jason Dwyer, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Rhode Island, has won an internationally recognized Innovation Award for his advancements in single-molecule nanopore sensing from the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies at its annual SciX Conference in Palm Springs, California, in October.

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Keywords: nanopore detection, Jason Dwyer, University Of Rhode Island, single molecule sensing, FACSS Innovation Award

By replicating biological machinery with non-biological components, scientists have created artificial cells that convert light into chemical energy.

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Keywords: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Materials Science, Nanoscience, Scientific User Facilities, Biosciences, Center For Nanoscale Materials, Computing, Environment & Life Sciences, Physical Science and Engineering

A "fuzzy logic" alarm system may help nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) predict impending catheter infusion failure – and prevent complications in critically ill newborns, reports a study in the October issue of Advances in Neonatal Care, official journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

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Keywords: extravasation injury prevention, intravenous catheter , multimodal sensor , neonatal infusion monitoring

Power generation, the heat in our homes, air-conditioning, even the manufacturing of some of the products we use each day rely on evaporation and condensation processes. Improving and controlling these phase-change phenomena could increase energy efficiency across a vast number of industries. Shankar Narayanan, assistant professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is leading a team that will be supported by a new NSF CAREER grant to study how evaporation and condensation processes can be improved or controlled at the micro level.

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Keywords: Nanomaterial

Graphene, a two-dimensional structure made of carbon, is a material with excellent mechani-cal, electronic and optical properties. However, it did not seem suitable for magnetic applica-tions. Together with international partners, Empa researchers have now succeeded in synthesiz-ing a unique nanographene predicted in the 1970s, which conclusively demonstrates that car-bon in very specific forms has magnetic properties that could permit future spintronic applica-tions. The results have just been published in the renowned journal Nature Nanotechnology.

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Keywords: Nanotechnology, topological frustration

A roar of approval rang out at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory upon the announcement in October that John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino had won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. On December 10th in Stockholm, they received this highly coveted prize for their major contributions to the invention of the lithium-ion battery, which is a long-standing major focus of research at Argonne.

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Keywords: Advanced Photon Source, Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS), Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), Cell Analysis, Modeling, and Prototyping (CAMP) Facility, Center for Electrochemical Energy Science, Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Energy Technology and S

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report they have created a tiny, nanosize container that can slip inside cells and deliver protein-based medicines and gene therapies of any size — even hefty ones attached to the gene-editing tool called CRISPR. If their creation – constructed of a biodegradable polymer — passes more laboratory testing, it could offer a way to efficiently ferry larger medical compounds into specifically selected target cells.

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Keywords: Jordan Green, Nanoparticles, Nanocontainer

Science Snapshots from Berkeley Lab

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Keywords: microbiome, genome, , Microbiome, Genome, Microscopy, Earthquakes, Fiber Optic Sensors

CFN staff and users from ExxonMobil have developed a new approach to identifying atoms that are neither carbon nor hydrogen within a specific type of molecule in crude oil.

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Keywords: Nanomaterials, Atomic Force Microscopy, Chemistry, Fossil Fuels

Organic solar cells are steadily improving as new materials are developed for the active layer, and a paper published this week in Applied Physics Reviews presents a practical guide for selecting materials for ternary organic solar cells. The authors set out to employ component engineering to extend the light absorption and efficiency of solar cells in a simple, physical way instead of the complicated process of synthesizing new semiconductors.

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Keywords: photon harvesting, ternary solar cells, organic solar cell, Energy, conversion efficiency, Wei Li, Zuo Xiao, Joel A. Smith, Jinlong Cai, Donghui Li, Rachel C. Kilbride, Emma L.K. Spooner, Onkar S. Game, Xianyi Meng, Dan Liu, Richard A.L. Jones, David G. Lidzey, Liming Ding, Tao Wang, Wuhan University of Technology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technolo