May 13, 2015

Nano-policing Pollution




(May 13, 2015)  Pollutants emitted by factories and car exhausts affect humans who breathe in these harmful gases and also aggravate climate change up in the atmosphere. Being able to detect such emissions is a critically needed measure.

New research by the Nanoparticles by Design Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), in collaboration with the Materials Center Leoben Austria and the Austrian Centre for Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis  has developed an efficient way to  improve methods for detecting polluting emissions using a sensor at the nanoscale. The paper was published in Nanotechnology. 

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