Indestructible virus yields secret to creating incredibly durable materials
Cancer drugs without side effects? Sturdier buildings? This virus might help.
Jul 19th, 2017
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Nanoparticles could spur better LEDs, invisibility cloaks
In an advance that could boost the efficiency of LED lighting by 50 percent and even pave the way for invisibility cloaking devices, a team of researchers has developed a new technique that peppers metallic nanoparticles into semiconductors.
Jul 19th, 2017
Read moreInnovative nanosensor for disease diagnosis
Scientists developed diagnostic sensors using protein-encapsulated nanocatalysts, which can diagnose certain diseases by analyzing human exhaled breath.
Jul 19th, 2017
Read moreManipulating electron spins without loss of information
The newly-developed method provides protection from spin decay, meaning that the contained information can be maintained and transmitted over comparatively large distances.
Jul 19th, 2017
Read moreA powerful laser system for driving sophisticated experiments in attosecond science
This new laser system enables an entirely new class of experiments in simple atomic and small molecular systems, as well as high fidelity investigations of more complex molecules.
Jul 19th, 2017
Read moreNanoVelcro microchips could someday noninvasively diagnose prenatal conditions
Scientists have developed a device that provides sensitive results, but in a less invasive way: a blood test.
Jul 19th, 2017
Read moreNano-in-micro stem cell delivery could rescue blood flow after injury
Researchers combine micro and nano approaches to improve stem cell therapies and outcomes after ischemia, or inadequate blood supply.
Jul 19th, 2017
Read moreNanoparticle-based glue to seal bleeding and guide surgery
First nanoparticle-based adhesive with imaging contrast effect in CT and ultrasound was successfully tested in animals and showed less toxicity than the FDA-approved glue CA-Lp.
Jul 19th, 2017
Read moreTitanium dioxide nanoparticles can exacerbate colitis
When intestinal cells absorb titanium dioxide particles, this leads to increased inflammation and damage to the intestinal mucosa in mice with colitis.
Jul 19th, 2017
Read moreCell-permeable nanobodies
Scientists report on the synthesis and applications of nanobodies they introduced into living cells.
Jul 19th, 2017
Read moreSupramolecular materials with a time switch
Self-disposing supramolecular materials with a tunable lifetime.
Jul 19th, 2017
Read moreStimuli-responsive 'cluster bombs' for tumor therapy
Researchers have designed a a pH-responsive size-changeable 'Cluster Bomb' based on mesoporous silica nanoparticle and peptide tLyP-1-modified tungsten disulfide quantum dots programmed tumor therapy.
Jul 18th, 2017
Read moreA breakthrough in 'dead layer' of antiferromagnet
Researchers made a breakthrough to solve the 'dead layer' effect problem in synthetic antiferromagnets.
Jul 18th, 2017
Read moreNo amplification needed: Ultrasensitive DNA quantification by light scattering
Traces of biomolecules such as DNA can be detected with a new 'dynamic' technique based on the observation of association and dissociation events of gold nanoparticles. If the desired DNA sequence is present, it can reversibly bind two nanoparticles together.
Jul 18th, 2017
Read moreThe glass transition caught in the act
Islands of cooperating atoms jam like ice floes as a liquid becomes like glass.
Jul 18th, 2017
Read moreHarnessing light to drive chemical reactions
A new study shows how a light-harvesting metal transfers energy to a catalytic metal, opening the way for better catalyst designs.
Jul 18th, 2017
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