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A novel technology, capable of analyzing nanomaterials in our daily lives with the use of common ‘salt’ has been developed. This allows various molecules to amplify up to hundreds of times the signals they produce in response to light, thereby making them very useful for nanomaterial research.
This breakthrough has been led by Professor Chang Young Lee and his research team in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST. In the study, the team has discovered that the coating of CNT surface with salt crystals allows direct observation of the shape and position changes of CNTs. Their findings also revealed that salt crystals made on CNTs could serve as a lens through which to observe nanomaterials.
“The key to this technology is the ability to measure physical properties in real time without damaging nanomaterials at normal temperatures and pressures,” says Professor Lee. “Our findings could be more widely applied to research of nanomaterials and nanophenomena.”
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