Microscale rockets can travel through cellular landscapes
A new study shows how tiny robotic vessels powered by acoustic waves and an on-board bubble motor can be maneuvered through cellular landscapes using magnets.
Oct 28th, 2019
Read moreA new study shows how tiny robotic vessels powered by acoustic waves and an on-board bubble motor can be maneuvered through cellular landscapes using magnets.
Oct 28th, 2019
Read moreA new type of micromotor - powered by ultrasound and steered by magnets - can move around individual cells and microscopic particles in crowded environments without damaging them. The technology could open up new possibilities for targeted drug delivery, nanomedicine, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and other biomedical applications.
Oct 25th, 2019
Read moreScientists have revealed a new way to detect and attack cancer cells using technology traditionally reserved for solar power. The results showcases dramatic improvements in light-activated fluorescent dyes for disease diagnosis, image-guided surgery and site-specific tumor treatment.
Oct 25th, 2019
Read moreNanoparticles from silicon dioxide are added to food products for example as anticaking agent. Recent research results from the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans show that within the intestinal cells of the roundworm nanosilica disturb the uptake and use of digested proteins.
Oct 25th, 2019
Read moreMaterials scientists who work with nano-sized components have developed ways of working with their vanishingly small materials. But what if you could get your components to assemble themselves into different structures without actually handling them at all?
Oct 25th, 2019
Read moreIncreasing anti-tumor immunity might now be made possible, thanks to copper telluride nanoparticles that mimic enzymes, especially under NIR-II light irradiation. This induces oxidative stress in tumor cells, quashing their immunosuppressive status and triggering inflammatory processes.
Oct 25th, 2019
Read morePhysicists observe reading and writing of digital information with antiferromagnetic materials.
Oct 25th, 2019
Read moreScientists report a promising hydrogen carrier in the form of hydrogen boride nanosheets. This two-dimensional material, which has only recently begun to be explored, could go on to be used as safe, light-weight, high-capacity hydrogen storage materials.
Oct 25th, 2019
Read moreResearchers made a breakthrough in controlling the quantum behavior of individual atoms, demonstrating a versatile new building block for quantum computation.
Oct 24th, 2019
Read moreScientists discover that nanoparticles' 'edge energy' gets them in 2D shape for energy storage applications.
Oct 24th, 2019
Read moreResearchers observed that a certain type of nanoparticles leads to stress reactions in the sugar balance, resulting in hyperactivity in the fish larvae.
Oct 24th, 2019
Read moreNacre, the rainbow-sheened material that lines the insides of mussel and other mollusk shells, is known as nature's toughest material. Now, a team of researchers has revealed precisely how it works, in real time.
Oct 23rd, 2019
Read moreNew breakthrough could lead to microfluidic devices that are more portable, scalable.
Oct 23rd, 2019
Read moreResearchers have developed nanoheterostructures, which can be used as a source of spin-polarized electrons for the semiconductor silicon substrate.
Oct 23rd, 2019
Read moreNew catalytic method with nanoparticles could mitigate global plastic pollution.
Oct 23rd, 2019
Read moreResearchers have produced novel transparent, all-polymer DBF lasers. The DBF lasers make use of the periodic wavelength-scale nanostructures to backscatter photons for constructive interference.
Oct 23rd, 2019
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