This substance, still in the laboratory phase, offers a number of advantages over those currently used: it reduces the adverse effects on the body, uses lower doses than usual, allows the compound to be targeted only at the affected area that needs to be visualized, and is very versatile, since the same substance can be used for different diagnostic tests.
Jul 20th, 2020
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The discovery will help clinicians target breast cancer cells directly, while avoiding the adverse, toxic side effects of chemotherapy.
Jul 20th, 2020
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Clouds of supercooled atoms offer highly sensitive rotation sensors and tests of quantum mechanics.
Jul 17th, 2020
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Natural graphite, used as the precursor for graphene oxide production, is a highly ordered crystalline inorganic material, which is believed to be formed by decay of organic matter. It is extremely thermodynamically stable and resistant to be converted to the organic-like metastable graphite oxide.
Jul 17th, 2020
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Researchers have developed novel ternary nanocomposites by electrostatic spinning technology, which improved the performance of supercapacitors electrode materials.
Jul 17th, 2020
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Scientists recently developed molecular films that can measure the operating temperature of electronic components on a nanometric scale. These patented temperature-sensitive molecules have the distinctive quality of being extremely stable, even after millions of uses.
Jul 17th, 2020
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An international team of researchers has succeeded in forming and studying self-assembled interlocked rings called 'nano-poly[n]catanenes' that contain just one molecular ingredient.
Jul 17th, 2020
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Scientists have managed to draw at high resolution and speed, local patterns in organic semiconductor films used in optoelectronic and photonic applications. The new method enables the patterning of material characteristics and concomitant final properties, including molecular conformation, orientation, crystallinity and composition.
Jul 17th, 2020
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Conducting a study on thermal conductivity of composites, scientists found that thermal conductivity of Poly(vinyl alcohol)/boron nitride composite film could be regulated on the molecular level by covalent coupling.
Jul 16th, 2020
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Researchers have created a less expensive 3-D printing method on the nanoscale that can manufacture nanostructures and erase mistakes.
Jul 16th, 2020
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Unusual nanoparticles could also benefit the quest to build a quantum computer.
Jul 16th, 2020
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To clarify the bonding retention of adsorbed gas molecules on graphene with and without electric field tuning, scientists monitored the time-dependent vdW interaction decay of adsorbed CO2 molecules on graphene at different electric fields.
Jul 16th, 2020
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Researchers have made a material with interlocked mineral layers that resembles nacre and is stronger and tougher than previous mimics.
Jul 16th, 2020
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Physicists succeed at engineering an optical mirror made of only a few hundred atoms. It is the lightest one in the world and even imaginable.
Jul 16th, 2020
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Researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell.
Jul 15th, 2020
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Scientists have developed a breakthrough technology to resolve a key problem that has prevented the introduction of novel drugs into clinical practice for decades.
Jul 15th, 2020
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