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Drug-loaded nanoparticles can enhance precision and safety of ultrasound tumor treatment
Researchers have created a new kind of nanoparticle that could make ultrasound-based cancer treatments more effective and safer, while also helping prevent tumors from coming back.
Bio & Medicine
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MXene-antibody sensor enables low-cost, accurate vitamin D detection in remote regions
An electrochemical sensor designed to address a global health issue that particularly impacts people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has been created by a multidisciplinary team at KAUST. The sensor detects low ...
Bio & Medicine
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Onion-like nanoparticles found in aircraft exhaust
A research team from the National Institute for Environmental Studies (Japan), Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland), Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan), and other institutions conducted emission tests on ...
Nanomaterials
May 14, 2025
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Sugar-coated nanotherapy dramatically improves neuron survival in Alzheimer's model
Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new approach that directly combats the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Bio & Medicine
May 14, 2025
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Biosensor uses pH-responsive DNA nanoswitches for highly sensitive bladder cancer detection in urine
A study published in ACS Nano presents a novel biosensor for the isothermal, highly sensitive detection of bladder cancer biomarkers—miRNAs, short non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression—using programmable pH-responsive ...
Bio & Medicine
May 13, 2025
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Record-large pore molecular crystals: A leap toward clean energy storage
In our study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, our team from The University of Hong Kong and Northwestern University, led by the late Nobel Laureate Professor Fraser Stoddart, developed RP-H200, a ...
Photoresponsive cages show promise for tunable supramolecular electronics
In a recent study that merges supramolecular chemistry and molecular electronics, a research team has demonstrated how supramolecular porphyrin-based cages can enable tunable photoresponsive charge transport (CT) behaviors ...
Nanophysics
May 13, 2025
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Targeted nanoparticles show promise for more effective antifungal treatments
A team of researchers from Brown University has developed a new nanotechnology-based approach that could improve treatment of fungal infections, particularly those caused by the increasingly drug-resistant Candida species.
Bio & Medicine
May 12, 2025
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Dynamic visualizations expose how domain walls shift in ferroelectrics
As demand for energy-intensive computing grows, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new technique that lets scientists see—in unprecedented detail—how interfaces move ...
Nanophysics
May 12, 2025
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Nanoscale spectroscopy detects vibrational signals from molecules in confined gaps
Vibrational sum-frequency generation (VSFG) is a nonlinear spectroscopic method widely used to investigate the molecular structure and dynamics of surface systems. However, in far-field observations, the spatial resolution ...
Nanophysics
May 12, 2025
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Controlling contaminants inside nanopores holds promise for desalination, carbon dioxide storage and porous catalysts
Natural and engineered systems have a whole world of chemistry inside their tiny pores—known as nanopores—that changes depending on the chemical functional groups inside.
Nanomaterials
May 12, 2025
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Modified glass fiber microstructure could illuminate blood vessel health from within
Skoltech researchers have fashioned a microstructure made of modified glass fiber that could in principle function as a tiny lantern for medical probes exploring the interior of blood vessels and other tubular cavities in ...
Bio & Medicine
May 12, 2025
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A recently realized ferroelectric topology in nanomembranes enables light field manipulation
Ferroelectrics are a class of materials that exhibit so-called spontaneous electric polarization, which is the separation of electric charges that can be reversed when an external electric field is applied to them. The dipole ...
Stability solution brings unique form of carbon closer to practical application
Carbyne, a one-dimensional chain of carbon atoms, is incredibly strong for being so thin, making it an intriguing possibility for use in next-generation electronics, but its extreme instability causing it to bend and snap ...
Nanophysics
May 9, 2025
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Bringing superconducting nanostructures to 3D
The move from two to three dimensions can have a significant impact on how a system behaves, whether it is folding a sheet of paper into a paper airplane or twisting a wire into a helical spring. At the nanoscale, 1,000 times ...
Nanophysics
May 9, 2025
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Sulfur-capped carbon nanobelts promise novel applications
RIKEN chemists have hit upon a fast and easy way to combine so-called nanobelts of carbon with sulfur-containing functional groups. The work is published in the journal Nature Communications.
Nanomaterials
May 9, 2025
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Self-assembled dodecahedral nanostructure features 60 metal ions and peptide ligands
Controlling the topology and structure of entangled molecular strands is a key challenge in molecular engineering, particularly when attempting to create large nanostructures that mimic biological systems. Examples found ...
Bio & Medicine
May 9, 2025
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One glass, full color: Sub-millimeter waveguide shrinks augmented-reality glasses
Augmented-reality (AR) technology is rapidly finding its way into everyday life, from education and health care to gaming and entertainment. However, the core AR device remains bulky and heavy, making prolonged wear uncomfortable. ...
Nanophysics
May 8, 2025
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In vivo 3D printing using sound holds promise for precise drug delivery, wound healing and more
Imagine that doctors could precisely print miniature capsules capable of delivering cells needed for tissue repair exactly where they are needed inside a beating heart.
Bio & Medicine
May 8, 2025
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Revolution in friction: A way to make super-smooth materials
Scientists from the Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics at the University of Lodz have published an article on friction in the journal Small. Their research on "bismuth islands" moving on the surface of graphite confirmed ...
Nanophysics
May 7, 2025
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