Materials scientists have long known that introducing defects into three-dimensional materials can improve their mechanical and electronic properties. Now a new study finds how defects affect two-dimensional crystalline structures, and the results hold information for designing new materials.
Apr 8th, 2014
Read moreA new study from MIT and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) suggests that certain nanoparticles can also harm DNA.
Apr 8th, 2014
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Spintronics-based technology may replace volatile memory and enable extremely energy-efficient, hand-cranked or solar-powered devices.
Apr 8th, 2014
Read moreNew research reveals that the scientists place great emphasis on behaving responsibly; they just disagree on what social responsibility in science entails. Responsibility is, in other words, a matter of perspective.
Apr 8th, 2014
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Researchers have achieved a major breakthrough in the development of methods of information processing in nanomagnets. Using a new trick, they have been able to induce synchronous motion of the domain walls in a ferromagnetic nanowire.
Apr 8th, 2014
Read moreScientists at the University of Southampton are aiming to develop a handheld testing device to provide same day diagnosis from a patient's bedside.
Apr 8th, 2014
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Researchers have unveiled a potentially scalable method for making one-atom-thick layers of molybdenum diselenide - a highly sought semiconductor that is similar to graphene but has better properties for making certain electronic devices like switchable transistors and light-emitting diodes.
Apr 8th, 2014
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This evolving treatment approach involves the injection of nanoparticles into the tumor, which are then activated with magnetic energy. Once activated the nanoparticles produce heat inside the cancer cell. The heat kills the cancer cell with minimal damage to surrounding tissue.
Apr 8th, 2014
Read moreA new theoretical study shows the conductivity conditions under which graphene nanoribbons can become switches in externally controlled electronic devices.
Apr 8th, 2014
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Forscher beobachten die Entstehung einer goldenen Nanohuelle um kleine Glaskugel - Grundlage für gezielte Partikelherstellung.
Apr 8th, 2014
Read moreBladder cancer cells overexpress the protein EGFR; gold nanorods can be engineered to attach to EGFR proteins; and then the application of low-intensity laser to the tissue can preferentially heat these gold nanorods, killing the EGFR-rich cancer cells to which they are attached.
Apr 8th, 2014
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Chemists have found that cellulose - the most abundant organic polymer on Earth and a key component of trees - can be heated in a furnace in the presence of ammonia, and turned into the building blocks for supercapacitors.
Apr 7th, 2014
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Researchers have measured how irregularly distributed silver particles influence the absorption of light. They demonstrated that nanoparticles interact with one another via their electromagnetic near-fields, so that local 'hot spots' arise where light is concentrated especially strongly.
Apr 7th, 2014
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New research reveals that energy is transferred more efficiently inside of complex, three-dimensional organic solar cells when the donor molecules align face-on, rather than edge-on, relative to the acceptor. This finding may aid in the design and manufacture of more efficient and economically viable organic solar cell technology.
Apr 7th, 2014
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Carbon nanotubes are reinforcing bars that make two-dimensional graphene much easier to handle in a new hybrid nanomaterial.
Apr 7th, 2014
Read moreResearchers have made a surprising discovery about the degradation of solar cells that could help pave the way to creating a longer lifetime for these cells.
Apr 7th, 2014
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