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How to build a better railway - in (almost) every cell in your body

New work shows how a microscopic 'railway' system in our cells can optimise its structure to better suit bodies' needs.

Mar 12th, 2018

Extracellular vesicles could be personalized drug delivery vehicles

Creating enough nanovesicles to inexpensively serve as a drug delivery system may be as simple as putting the cells through a sieve, according to an international team of researchers who used mouse autologous immune cells to create large amounts of fillable nanovesicles to deliver drugs to tumors in mice.

Mar 12th, 2018

Glass matters

Researchers find that the chemical topology of silica can influence the effectiveness of many chemical processes that use it.

Mar 12th, 2018

A milestone in petahertz electronics

Observation of attosecond optical-field-enhanced carrier injection into the GaAs conduction band.

Mar 12th, 2018

Study IDs 'white graphene' architecture with unprecedented hydrogen storage capacity

Engineers have zeroed in on the optimal architecture for storing hydrogen in 'white graphene' nanomaterials - a design like a Lilliputian skyscraper with 'floors' of boron nitride sitting one atop another and held precisely 5.2 angstroms apart by boron nitride pillars.

Mar 12th, 2018

Polymer nanoparticle shows ability to locate and treat breast tumors

Researchers have developed a fluorescing nanoparticle capable of finding tumors, lighting up upon arrival and being activated with light to generate heat to destroy the cancer cells.

Mar 12th, 2018

Method to grow large single-crystal graphene could advance scalable 2D materials

A new method to produce large, monolayer single-crystal-like graphene films more than a foot long relies on harnessing a 'survival of the fittest' competition among crystals.

Mar 12th, 2018

Insight into doping efficiency of organic semiconductors

A group of physicists was able to demonstrate in a study how the doping of organic semiconductors can be simulated and experimentally verified.

Mar 12th, 2018

Nanometer-thin layer improves efficiency of OLEDs

Scientists have discovered a new method to improve contacts in OLEDs. This new approach leads to a higher energy efficiency and can be used in almost any organic semiconductor element.

Mar 12th, 2018

3D-printing ink highly loaded with iron oxide nanoparticles

Researchers report the preparation and 3D printing of highly loaded iron oxide inks through the minimum use of a single additive that is specifically designed for iron oxide.

Mar 12th, 2018

Scientists use nanotechnology to detect molecular biomarker for osteoarthritis

For the first time, scientists have been able to measure a specific molecule indicative of osteoarthritis and a number of other inflammatory diseases using a newly developed technology.

Mar 12th, 2018

Mastering metastable matter

Insight into metastability and avalanche dynamics in strongly correlated gases with long-range interactions.

Mar 9th, 2018

New conductive MXene nanocoating may unlock biometric and wearable technology of the future

Researchers have developed a mechanically robust conductive coating that can maintain performance under heavy stretching and bending.

Mar 9th, 2018

Flat gallium joins roster of new 2-D nanomaterials

Scientists have discovered a method to make atomically flat gallium that shows promise for nanoscale electronics.

Mar 9th, 2018

Flower-shaped gold nanocrystals for photothermal therapy

Gold nanoflowers grown in starfruit juice are promising agents for photothermal cancer therapy. When injected into a tumor and irradiated with near-infrared laser light, the nanoflowers heat up and kill the cancer cells around them.

Mar 9th, 2018

A bright idea for on-demand nanopatterns

Focused electron beams can simultaneously synthesize optically active nanocrystals and pattern them into intricate surface arrays.

Mar 9th, 2018

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