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Gas nanomedicine: An emerging cutting-edge field

Several therapeutic gases are quite helpful for treatment of many inflammation-related diseases including cancer, but also exhibit some shortcomings such as limited therapy efficacy. Gas nanomedicine appears as an emerging cutting edge of nanomaterials and gas medicine, raising urgent demand on nanomaterials to address the issues of gas medicine.

May 6th, 2020

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MOFs filter out toxic chromium from water

Chemists have developed sponges to capture various target substances, like gold, mercury and lead, dissolved in solution. The sponges are actually porous crystals called metal organic frameworks, and now one exists for capturing toxic hexavalent chromium from water.

May 6th, 2020

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Nanoparticles break down explosives in wastewater

An activated carbon filter can purify your drinking water, but it's no match for wastewater that contains military-grade explosives. To clean wastewater from munitions processing and demilitarization, engineers are testing a novel technology using iron nanoparticles.

May 5th, 2020

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Drops of nanoparticles self-stir and communicate

Researchers have discovered a new mechanism of self-organization of active matter. When photochemically active nanoparticles are enclosed at high density within a drop and are exposed to UV light, a self-organized flow pattern emerges by spontaneous symmetry breaking. Furthermore, each drop communicates with neighbouring drops by exchanging chemicals, and coordination of their internal flows occurs - even when far apart.

May 5th, 2020

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