Houston Methodist nanomedicine researchers have found a way to tame pancreatic cancer—one of the most aggressive and difficult to treat cancers—by delivering immunotherapy directly into the tumor with a device that is ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 13, 2023
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Researchers from the University of Houston have demonstrated that an inexpensive and non-toxic nanofluid can be used to efficiently recover even heavy oil with high viscosity from reservoirs.
Materials Science
Sep 10, 2020
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Nanofluidics, the field which studies nanoscale flows, has made considerable progress in recent years. The field is blossoming thanks to the development of new materials, in particular nanotubes and 2-D materials, which allows ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 21, 2020
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Salinity gradient energy is recognized as a promising candidate for the substitution of traditional fossil fuels. Recently nanofluidic salinity gradient energy harvesting via ion channels or membranes has drawn increasing ...
Nanophysics
Aug 6, 2019
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Whether it is oil gushing through pipelines or blood circulating through arteries, how liquids flow through tubes is perhaps the most fundamental problem in hydrodynamics. The challenge is to maximize transport efficiency ...
General Physics
Aug 1, 2019
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Disperse graphene in a suitable solvent and the resulting nanofluid will have much better thermal properties than the original liquid. Three ICN2 research groups collaborated to describe and explain this effect from the inside ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 26, 2018
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Experts of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Russia) are developing new smart nanofluidic materials that will enable manufacturing more advanced sensors, detectors, dampers, valves and tactile devices for the ...
Materials Science
Dec 14, 2016
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As oil producers struggle to adapt to lower prices, getting as much oil as possible out of every well has become even more important, despite concerns from nearby residents that some chemicals used to boost production may ...
Nanophysics
Jun 27, 2016
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Remember Slinky, the coiled metal spring that “walks” down stairs with just a push, momentum and gravity? Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed their own version ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 21, 2012
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