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Nanotechnology-platform ready: Scientists use DNA origami to create 2D structures
Scientists have developed a method using DNA origami to turn one-dimensional nano materials into two dimensions. Their breakthrough offers the potential to enhance fiber optics and electronic devices by reducing their size and increasing their speed.
Posted: Jun 2nd, 2014
Read moreBreakthrough in energy storage: Electrical cables that can store energy
New nanotechnology may provide power storage in electric cables, clothes.
Posted: Jun 2nd, 2014
Read moreEfficient thermal cooling and heating with MOF coatings
Thermal systems use heat to produce cold, and vice versa. To do so, a material is needed that can dissipate water vapor particularly well and quickly. A new method simply applies this property as a layer onto the components.
Posted: Jun 2nd, 2014
Read moreNanotechnology takes on diabetes
A sensor which can be used to screen for diabetes in resource-poor settings has been developed by researchers and tested in diabetic patients, and will soon be field tested in sub-Saharan Africa.
Posted: Jun 2nd, 2014
Read moreCellulose fibers stronger than steel
A novel procedure spins extremely tough filaments from tiny cellulose fibrils by aligning them all in parallel during the production process.
Posted: Jun 2nd, 2014
Read moreNanotubes laid out in stripes
New technologies can be realized with thin layers of carbon nanotubes. Now, researchers have examined a technique that creates such layers, gaining fresh insights.
Posted: Jun 2nd, 2014
Read moreJoint implants without an expiry date
Researchers have succeeded in coating mobile intervertebral disc implants so that they show no wear and will now last for a lifetime.
Posted: Jun 2nd, 2014
Read moreSurprising nanotubes: Some slippery, some sticky
New research discovers unexpected variations in behavior of nanotubes made of different materials.
Posted: Jun 2nd, 2014
Read more'Quadrapeutics' works in preclinical study of hard-to-treat tumors (w/video)
A new study reports the first preclinical tests for a novel anti-cancer technology called 'quadrapeutics' that converts current clinical treatments to instantaneously detect and kill only cancer cells. Quadrapeutics combines clinically available drugs, colloidal gold, pulsed lasers and radiation in a novel and safe micro-treatment that improved standard therapy by 17-fold against aggressive, drug-resistant tumors.
Posted: Jun 1st, 2014
Read moreTeam gives a microscopic quantum mechanical description of how light excites electrons in metals
University of Pittsburgh researchers have become the first to detect a fundamental particle of light-matter interaction in metals, the exciton.
Posted: Jun 1st, 2014
Read moreGraphene's multi-colored butterflies
Combining black and white graphene can change the electronic properties of the one-atom thick materials, University of Manchester researchers have found.
Posted: Jun 1st, 2014
Read moreOn step closer to a nanoparticle breath sensor to test for lung cancer
Volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath show presence and stage of lung cancer.
Posted: Jun 1st, 2014
Read more'Nanograss' biosensor distinguishes cancer cells from benign ones
Researchers fabricaed a new type of electrical nanosensor to detect a limited number of aggressive cancer cells among benign cells of the intestine.
Posted: May 30th, 2014
Read moreFirst real time movies of the light-to-current conversion in an organic solar cell
Researchers report the first real time movies of the light-to-current conversion process in an organic solar cell.
Posted: May 30th, 2014
Read moreA novel cost-effective nanoimprint lithography methodology improves ordering in periodic arrays from block copolymers
This low-cost scalable methodology demonstrates an improvement in ordering of the nanodot lattice of up to 50%.
Posted: May 30th, 2014
Read moreObserving the random diffusion of missing atoms in graphene
Imperfections in the regular atomic arrangements in crystals determine many of the properties of a material, and their diffusion is behind many microstructural changes in solids. However, imaging non-repeating atomic arrangements is difficult in conventional materials. Now, researchers at the University of Vienna have directly imaged the diffusion of a butterfly-shaped atomic defect in graphene, the recently discovered two-dimensional wonder material, over long image sequences.
Posted: May 30th, 2014
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