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Zebrafish embryos help prove what happens to nanoparticles in the blood
A variety of nanoparticles are designed for targeted drug delivery, but unfortunately only a very small proportion of the injected nanoparticles reach the target site such as solid tumors. The reason behind the low targeting ...
Bio & Medicine
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Developing the fastest and most sensitive graphene microwave bolometer
Bolometers are devices that measure the power of incident electromagnetic radiation thru the heating of materials, which exhibit a temperature-electric resistance dependence. These instruments are among the most sensitive ...
Nanomaterials
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Nanomotors as probes to sense cancer environment
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has used a 3-D tumor model and magnetically driven nanomotors to probe the microenvironment of cancer cells. The team consists of researchers ...
Bio & Medicine
21 hours ago
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Why disordered light-harvesting systems produce ordered outcomes
Scientists typically prefer to work with ordered systems. However, a diverse team of physicists and biophysicists from the University of Groningen found that individual light-harvesting nanotubes with disordered molecular ...
Nanophysics
Sep 29, 2020
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Nanotech filter coating offers promise against COVID-19
A physics professor from the University of Houston has developed a nanotech coating designed to allow air filters to capture airborne or aerosolized droplets of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Nanomaterials
Sep 29, 2020
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Neurons in spinal-cord injuries are reconnected in vivo via carbon nanotube sponges
Research conducted by two groups at the Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials CIC biomaGUNE and one at SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Italy), have shown that functional materials based ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 28, 2020
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Terraced graphene for ultrasensitive magnetic field sensor
National University of Singapore physicists have developed a sensitive two-dimensional (2-D) magnetic field sensor, which can potentially improve the detection of nanoscale magnetic domains for data storage applications.
Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2020
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Lithium batteries charge faster thanks to nanochannels
New technology to be used in lithium batteries can make them charge faster. The material graphite that was often used, already had a successor that could not further be improved, was the assumption. Until now, as researchers ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2020
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Speaking with neurons: Novel nanostructured neural electrodes
Knowing the state of mammalian cells, in particular neural cells, depends on advances in nanotechnology‐based interfaces. Nanotechnology offers new technical possibilities to unravel the connectivity routes of the nervous ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2020
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Secure nano-carrier delivers medications directly to cells
Medications often have unwanted side-effects. One reason is that they reach not only the unhealthy cells for which they are intended, but also reach and have an impact on healthy cells. Researchers at the Technical University ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 25, 2020
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Nanosecond laser-induced amplification of a photochromic reaction in a diarylethene nanoparticle
A research team in Ehime University found a drastically amplified ring-opening reaction yield in aqueous nanoparticle colloids of a photochromic diarylethene when induced by an intense nanosecond laser pulse, and clarified ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 25, 2020
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Biosynthesized silver nanoparticles are promising for pest management
In recent years, a green synthesis approach involving plants has gained great attention with the aim of generating environment-friendly nanoparticles encompassing a vast range of applications.
Nanomaterials
Sep 25, 2020
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Metal wires of carbon complete toolbox for carbon-based computers
Transistors based on carbon rather than silicon could potentially boost computers' speed and cut their power consumption more than a thousandfold—think of a mobile phone that holds its charge for months—but the set of ...
Nanophysics
Sep 24, 2020
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Photopyroelectric microfluidics developed by researchers
Precisely manipulating various liquids is essential in many fields and unlike solid objects, fluids are intrinsically divisible. Fluids are also sticky with appropriate functions for lossless manipulation to prevent loss ...
New brain cell-like nanodevices work together to identify mutations in viruses
In the September issue of the journal Nature, scientists from Texas A&M University, Hewlett Packard Labs and Stanford University have described a new nanodevice that acts almost identically to a brain cell. Furthermore, they ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 24, 2020
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White graphene exhibits high defect tolerance and elasticity
Because of their unique physical, chemical, electrical and optical properties, two-dimensional (2-D) materials have attracted tremendous attention in the past decades. After revealing the realistic strength and stretchability ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 24, 2020
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Scientists take a 'spin' onto magnetoresistive RAM
Magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) is the top candidate for next-generation digital technology. However, manipulating MRAM efficiently and effectively is challenging. An interdisciplinary research team based at ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 24, 2020
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Scientists devise 'Trojan horse' approach to kill cancer cells without using drugs
Cancer cells have been killed in lab experiments and tumor growth reduced in mice, using a new approach that turns a nanoparticle into a 'Trojan horse' that causes cancer cells to self-destruct, a research team at the Nanyang ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 23, 2020
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Scientists create world's smallest 'refrigerator'
How do you keep the world's tiniest soda cold? UCLA scientists may have the answer.
Nanomaterials
Sep 23, 2020
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Nanostructures with a unique property
Nanoscale vortices known as skyrmions can be created in many magnetic materials. For the first time, researchers at PSI have managed to create and identify antiferromagnetic skyrmions with a unique property: critical elements ...
Nanophysics
Sep 23, 2020
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