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Application of the yeast spores significantly abolished growth of different fungal causal agents of plant diseases such as powdery mildews, the gray mold that has more than 400 different hosts, crown rust, the black spot disease of cultivated Brassicas and late wilt disease in corn. Pathogenic bacteria such as Clavibacter michiganensis, the causative agent of bacterial canker of tomato, were also inhibited by the yeast.
Researcher at KAIST in Korea present a flexible thin-film LIB developed using the universal transfer approach, which enables the realization of diverse flexible LIBs regardless of electrode chemistry. Moreover, it can form high-temperature (HT) annealed electrodes on polymer substrates for high-performance lithium-ion batteries.
Min Koo, Kwi-Il Park, Seung Hyun Lee, Minwon Suh, Duk Young Jeon, Jang Wook Choi, Kisuk Kang, and Keon Jae Lee: Bendable Inorganic Thin-Film Battery for Fully Flexible Electronic Systems, In: Nano Letters ASAP, July 30, 2012, DOI: 10.1021/nl302254v: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl302254v
Researchers from the nanoscience research center NanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain), the University of Munich (LMU, Germany) and Neaspec GmbH (Martinsried, Germany) present a new instrumental development that solves a prime question of materi- als science and nanotechnology: how to chemically identify materials at the nanometer scale.
F. Huth, A. Govyadinov, S. Amarie, W. Nuansing, F. Keilmann, R. Hillenbrand: Nano-FTIR absorption spectroscopy of molecular fingerprints at 20 nm spatial resolution, Nano Letters ASAP, June 15, 2012, DOI: 10.1021/ nl301159v
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Professors Chris Ackerson in the Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, USA, and Hannu Häkkinen at the Nanoscience Center of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, report the first structural study on the atomistic processes of a ligand-ex- change reaction of a well-defined gold nanoparti- cle that has 102 gold atoms and 44 ligand sites in the molecular overlayer. The studied particle has a chemical formula of Au102(p-MBA)44 and it was made by using a water-soluble thiol (para-mercap-to benzoic acid, p-MBA) as the stabilizing molecule. The X-ray crystal structure of this particle was first reported as the cover article of Science in 2007 by the group of Roger D. Kornberg from Stanford University. Häkkinen led an international team of researchers that published a theoretical analysis of this and other thiol-stabilized gold nanoparticles in 2008 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.