Engineering researchers have created mesh-like mats made with tannic acid; used in bandages or inside food storage containers, they can help promote prolonged antioxidant activity.
May 6th, 2020
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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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The devices could be used in new, safe imaging technology with far higher resolution than current ultrasound devices used to detect small tumours.
May 6th, 2020
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Quantum technology was once considered to be something very expensive and available only to the largest research centers. However, in our days it is widely used in many applications, and one of them is magnetic resonance imaging.
May 6th, 2020
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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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Researchers propose the smart protection mechanism of responsive single walled carbon nanotube membranes against environmental threats.
May 6th, 2020
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A drug-loaded microrobotic needle effectively targets and remains attached to cancerous tissue in lab experiments without needing continuous application of a magnetic field, allowing more precise drug delivery.
May 6th, 2020
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Wavy silver nanowire network on stretchable substrate were fabricated for large-scale stretchable and transparent electrodes.
May 6th, 2020
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Disabling a gene in specific mouse cells, researchers have prevented mice from becoming obese, even after the animals had been fed a high-fat diet.
May 5th, 2020
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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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'Racetrack memory', which reconfigures magnetic fields in innovative ways, could supplant current methods of mass data storage, such as flash memory and disk drives, due to its improved density of information storage, faster operation, and lower energy use.
May 5th, 2020
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Researchers present a new strategy to fabricate quasi-metallic 1D polymers with atomic precision. These findings advance the possibility to design stable organic polymers with vanishing electronic bandgaps, whose applications range from molecular optoelectronics to quantum information technology.
May 5th, 2020
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It's said that maple syrup is Quebec's liquid gold. Now scientists have found a way to use real gold -- in the form of nanoparticles -- to quickly find out how the syrup tastes.
May 5th, 2020
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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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Scientists argue that hydrogen, used as a zero-carbon energy carrier, has the potential to significantly transform the global energy landscape.
May 5th, 2020
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New technology allows scientists to measure wavefront distortions induced by the specimen, either a cell or a tissue, directly from the signals generated by single molecules - tiny light sources attached to the cellular structures of interest.
May 4th, 2020
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