That glint of gold has always captured our eyes, but now the precious metal has a new use – finding defects in 3-D printing.
Nanomaterials
Jul 11, 2018
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A new study finds reason for caution—a clear emergence of toxicity—in nanomaterial product formulations, but it also provides an early testing technique that could help the industry continue to move forward.
Bio & Medicine
Jun 29, 2018
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DNA is certainly the basis of life. Soon it might also be the basis of your electronic devices.
Nanophysics
Jun 26, 2018
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that takes advantage of gold nanoparticles to trigger the sequential unfolding of three-dimensional structures using different wavelengths of ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 18, 2018
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Plants containing the element gold are already widely known. The flowering perennial plant alfafa, for example, has been cultivated by scientists to contain pure gold in its plant tissue. Now researchers from the Sun Yat-sen ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 14, 2018
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Doping polymer brushes with gold nanoparticles results in a switchable composite material which changes its thickness depending on the pH value. The research by physicists at the TU Darmstadt, published in the journal Soft ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 5, 2018
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An international research team has studied a new cell visualisation and drug delivery system based on nanoparticles coated with luminescent dye molecules. The particle material and the distance between the dye and the particle's ...
Nanophysics
May 29, 2018
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A new method has been developed to make drugs 'smarter' using nanotechnology so they will be more effective at reaching their target.
Bio & Medicine
Apr 23, 2018
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An experiment that, by design, was not supposed to turn up anything of note instead produced a "bewildering" surprise, according to the Stanford scientists who made the discovery: a new way of creating gold nanoparticles ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 19, 2018
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Researchers have used the fossilized remains of algae to take a key step toward being able to more sensitively detect harmful contaminants in food.
Materials Science
Apr 19, 2018
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