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Bio & Medicine Apr 29, 2020

Researchers measure cancer cell mechanics in living animals using nanoparticles

A first-of-its-kind nanoparticle-based in vivo imaging technique that may one day be used to help diagnose and even treat cancer has been developed by researchers collaborating from Michigan State, Johns Hopkins and Stanford ...

Nanomaterials Apr 24, 2020

Engineers open door to big new library of tiny nanoparticles

The development of bimetallic nanoparticles (i.e., tiny particles composed of two different metals that exhibit several new and improved properties) represents a novel area of research with a wide range of potential applications. ...

Bio & Medicine Apr 22, 2020

Scientists invent nanoparticle that could improve treatment for bone defects

A team of biomaterials scientists and dentists at the UCLA School of Dentistry has developed a nanoparticle that, based on initial experiments in animals, could improve treatment for bone defects.

Materials Science Apr 15, 2020

New mask material can remove virus-size nanoparticles

Scientists around the world are scrambling to adapt their research to find solutions to the many problems raised by the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the world, not the least being a face mask shortage.

Bio & Medicine Mar 24, 2020

Global carbon capture potential for rare nanoparticle

Australia is on the cusp of commercializing a rare nanoparticle with huge global potential to help capture carbon and water pollutants.

Bio & Medicine Mar 12, 2020

Nanoparticle-based thermal treatment cures intestinal cancer in mice

A group of scientists from NUST MISIS has presented the test results of an innovative oncotherapy technology based on hyperthermia—heating nanoparticles that have been introduced into a tumour to kill it. A drug based on ...

Bio & Medicine Feb 27, 2020

Assessing the risks associated with nanoparticles in medical applications

Nanomedicine is increasingly used in applications like drug delivery and diagnosis, with promising results in several fields, including oncology, cardiology and immunology. However, the rising popularity of nanobiomaterials ...

Nanophysics Feb 26, 2020

Weak forces are strong enough to align semiconductor nanoparticles

A PNNL research team has discovered that atomic forces thought to be "weak" can actually exert more control than has been understood. And that new discovery, published February 25 in the journal Nature Communications, could ...

Nanomaterials Feb 4, 2020

Chemist synthesizes gold-based electrocatalysts

A RUDN chemist has synthesized an electrocatalyst based on gold nanoparticles with organic ligands that can trigger both hydrogen production reactions and oxygen reduction reactions in fuel cells. The yield of products with ...

Quantum Physics Jan 31, 2020

A quantum of solid: A glass nanoparticle in the quantum regime

Researchers in Austria have used lasers to levitate and cool a glass nanoparticle into the quantum regime. Although it is trapped in a room-temperature environment, the particle's motion is solely governed by the laws of ...

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