Nanoplastics negatively affect aquatic animals
New research investigates how nanosized plastic particles affect aquatic animals in different parts of the food chain.
May 23rd, 2016
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Nanotechnology for the nose: scented video games
The NANOSMELL project aims to switch smells on and off by tagging artificial odorants with nanoparticles exposed to electromagnetic field.
May 21st, 2016
Read moreNanotubes are beacons in cancer-imaging technique
Bathing a patient in LED light may someday offer a new way to locate tumors, according to researchers.
May 20th, 2016
Read moreNanocarriers may pack powerful treatment for brain tumors
Researchers have found that a lipid nanocarrier engineered to be small enough to get past the blood-brain barrier could be targeted to deliver a chemotherapeutic drug more efficiently to tumor cells in the brain.
May 20th, 2016
Read morePhysicists create first metamaterial with rewritable magnetic ordering
Physicists have produced the first rewriteable artificial magnetic charge ice. The research shows strong potential for technological applications from information encoding, reprogrammable magnonics, and also to spintronics.
May 20th, 2016
Read moreScientists explain how the giant magnetoelectric effect occurs in bismuth ferrite
Scientists have created a theoretical model which explains a previously little-studied phenomenon - a giant electromagnetic effect in bismuth ferrite.
May 20th, 2016
Read moreTerahertz spectroscopy
Spectroscopic system with chip-scale lasers cuts detection time from minutes to microseconds.
May 20th, 2016
Read moreTwo-stage nanoparticle delivery of piperlongumine and TRAIL anti-cancer therapy
A team of researchers has demonstrated a drug delivery mechanism that utilizes two independent vehicles, allowing for delivery of chemically and physically dis-tinct agents.
May 20th, 2016
Read moreMore light on cancer with nanoparticles
Scientists have succeeded to synthesize nanoparticles of ultrapure silicon, which exhibited the property of efficient photoluminescence, i.e., secondary light emission after photoexcitation.
May 20th, 2016
Read moreThe smallest car race in the world (w/video)
The first-ever international race of molecule-cars will take place at the CEMES laboratory in Toulouse this fall.
May 20th, 2016
Read moreRight size + right chemistry = right stuff for plastics manufacturing
New research has revealed a way to reduce the energy demand in one key step of plastic manufacturing by using a class of materials that can filter impurities more efficiently than the conventional manufacturing process.
May 20th, 2016
Read moreNew nanoparticle catalysts could reduce need for precious metals
Researchers have found a way to get the same amount of catalytic activity with as little as one-tenth the amount of precious metal.
May 20th, 2016
Read moreTravelling wave drives magnetic particles
New method for selectively controlling the motion of multiple sized microspheres suspended in water.
May 20th, 2016
Read moreScientists unravel the quantum properties of graphene
An international team of researchers has now explained the peculiar behaviour of electrons moving through narrow constrictions in a graphene layer.
May 20th, 2016
Read moreGraphene makes rubber more rubbery
Researchers have shown that adding a very small amount of graphene, the world's thinnest and strongest material, to rubber films can increase both their strength and the elasticity by up to 50%.
May 20th, 2016
Read moreA large-scale technique to produce quantum dots (w/video)
A method to produce significant amounts of semiconducting nanoparticles for light-emitting displays, sensors, solar panels and biomedical applications has gained momentum with a demonstration by researchers.
May 19th, 2016
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