Quantum dots light the way
A drug-encapsulating nanoparticle teams up with bright bio-labels to measure how anticancer chemotherapy formulations enter cells.
Jul 15th, 2015
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Self-cleaning templates for nanoscale protein patterning
A light-triggered cleanable, recyclable chip makes fabrication feasible for all.
Jul 15th, 2015
Read moreAdvanced composites may borrow designs from deep-sea shrimp
New research is revealing details about how the exoskeleton of a certain type of deep-sea shrimp allows the animal to survive scalding hot waters in hydrothermal vents thousands of feet under water.
Jul 14th, 2015
Read moreNanospheres shield chemo drugs, safely release high doses in response to tumor secretions
Scientists have designed nanoparticles that release drugs in the presence of a class of proteins that enable cancers to metastasize. That is, they have engineered a drug delivery system so that the very enzymes that make cancers dangerous could instead guide their destruction.
Jul 14th, 2015
Read moreNonmagnetic elements form unique magnet
Titanium and gold are usually not magnetic and cannot be magnets - unless you combine them just so.
Jul 14th, 2015
Read moreSignificant development in the understanding of macroscopic quantum behavior
Researchers demonstrate the wavelike quantum behavior of a polariton condensate on a macroscopic scale and at room temperature.
Jul 14th, 2015
Read moreResearchers build a transistor from a molecule and a few atoms
An international team of physicists has used a scanning tunneling microscope to create a minute transistor consisting of a single molecule and a small number of atoms. The observed transistor action is markedly different from the conventionally expected behavior and could be important for future device technologies as well as for fundamental studies of electron transport in molecular nanostructures.
Jul 14th, 2015
Read moreStudy finds the law governing how heat transport scales up with temperature
Law governing anomalous heat conduction revealed.
Jul 14th, 2015
Read moreNanoscale light-emitting device has big profile
Engineers have created a nanoscale device that can emit light as powerfully as an object 10,000 times its size. It's an advance that could have huge implications for everything from photography to solar power.
Jul 13th, 2015
Read moreChemotherapeutic coatings enhance tumor-frying nanoparticles
Researchers have devised a heat-induced nanoparticle drug delivery system to add firepower to a treatment already in clinical trials.
Jul 13th, 2015
Read morePolymer mold makes perfect silicon nanostructures
Polymer engineers have made a mold for nanostructures that can shape liquid silicon out of an organic polymer material. This paves the way for perfect, 3-D, single crystal nanostructures.
Jul 13th, 2015
Read moreClay sheets stack to form proton conductors
Model system demonstrates a new material property emerging from the assembly of nanoscale building blocks.
Jul 13th, 2015
Read moreMolecule suggested in 1902 gets its first close-up (w/video)
Today, chemistry teachers and students can breath a sigh of relief. After teaching and learning about a particular family of molecules for decades, scientists have finally proven that they do in fact exist.
Jul 13th, 2015
Read moreThe quantum physics of artificial light harvesting
Plants and bacteria make use of sunlight with remarkably high efficiency: nine out of ten absorbed light particles are being put to use in an ordinary bacterium. For years, it has been a pressing question of modern research whether or not effects from quantum physics are responsible for this outstanding performance of natural light harvesters. A team of European research groups have examined these quantum effects in an artificial model system.
Jul 13th, 2015
Read moreOptions for the review of the European Commission nanomaterial definition published
The Joint Research Center has published science-based options to improve the clarity and the practical application of the EC recommendation on the definition of a nanomaterial. This is the last JRC report in a series of three, providing the scientific support to the Commission in its review of the definition used to identify materials for which special provisions might apply.
Jul 13th, 2015
Read moreResearchers find nanowires have unusually pronounced 'anelastic' properties
Researchers have found that nanowires made of common semiconductor materials have a pronounced anelasticity - meaning that the wires, when bent, return slowly to their original shape rather than snapping back quickly.
Jul 13th, 2015
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