(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.