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Nanomaterials Apr 11, 2025

Illuminating the twist: Light-driven inversion of supramolecular chirality

Self-assembly or self-organization in molecular science refers to the phenomena where molecules spontaneously gather and form ordered structures, a unique property of materials used to develop optical and electronic materials.

Bio & Medicine Apr 7, 2025

Improving rapid tests: DNA nanotechnology boosts sensitivity of test strips

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, pretty much everybody is familiar with this technology: paper-based rapid test strips, also called lateral flow immunoassays (LFIAs). They enable easy detection of biomarkers that indicate the ...

Nanophysics Mar 31, 2025

Three-site Kitaev chain enhances stability of Majorana zero modes

An international research team led by QuTech has realized a three-site Kitaev chain using semiconducting quantum dots coupled by superconducting segments in a hybrid InSb/Al nanowire. When comparing two-and three-site chains ...

Bio & Medicine Mar 26, 2025

'Magnetic tweezers': Making robotic surgery safer and more precise with a human touch

Imagine if a doctor could remotely do a non-invasive, highly precise medical procedure on her patients using a tiny robot, or microrobot. With a device researchers from SMU and George Washington University created, that is ...

Space Exploration Mar 24, 2025

Scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails developed for next-generation space exploration

Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support future advances in space exploration and experimental physics. Their research, published in Nature Communications, ...

Nanophysics Mar 20, 2025

Low-noise transducers can bridge the gap between microwave and optical qubits

In the effort to build superconducting quantum computers, researchers around the world are working to develop electrical circuits that operate in the microwave domain using individual particles of microwave radiation (microwave ...

Bio & Medicine Mar 17, 2025

RNA origami technique folds nanotubes to create artificial cytoskeletons for synthetic cells

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural RNA biomolecule to fold ...

Bio & Medicine Mar 12, 2025

Nanogel drug delivery system shows promise for treating recurrent urinary tract infections

Researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus studied a new method to deliver antibiotics, specifically gentamicin, directly into the bladder tissue to better treat UTIs. They did this by creating nanogels ...

Bio & Medicine Mar 11, 2025

Smartphone and nanotechnology enable rapid neonatal jaundice detection

A research team led by Prof. Jiang Changlong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an innovative dual-mode sensing platform using upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs). ...

Nanophysics Feb 26, 2025

Critical nanoscale phenomena unveiled for more efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

In a significant advancement for boosting renewable energy generation development, the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has taken the lead in breaking through studies of ...

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