Toxic airborne nanoparticles from vehicles on our roads, which enter our bodies and lungs and damage human health, can more effectively be screened out by tall, dense trees than other "green infrastructure," finds a new study from the Un...
May 16, 2022
Researchers have successfully developed a new technique allowing them to observe gas molecules packing into metal-organic frameworks (MOF) using infrared spectroscopy. Their innovation was to measure polarized light absorption of guest molecules i...
May 16, 2022
Ovarian cancer kills 14,000 women in the United States every year. It's the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women, and it's so deadly, in part, because the disease is hard to catch in its early stages. Patients often don't...
May 16, 2022
Ovarian cancer kills 14,000 women in the United States every year. It's the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women, and it's so deadly, in part, because the disease is hard to catch in its early stages. Patients often don't...
May 16, 2022
Branched polymers, polymers that look like tiny tree branches, have significant potential for water filtration, the biomedical field, nanoelectronics, and other applications. Researchers have now come up with a better way for efficiently creating ...
May 16, 2022
Carbon nanostructures that formed in circumstellar envelopes around carbon-rich stars may have a shared chemical origin with soot particles produced by fuel combustion. The same reaction mechanism may underpin each process, KAUST researchers have ...
May 16, 2022
Experts from Japan recently developed a nanomembrane model that could filter out salt from seawater faster and more efficiently than the traditional desalination devices we use today. Learn more how the scholars built the nanostructure and how it ...
May 16, 2022
A trio of researchers at City University of Hong Kong has developed a tiny drone based on the maple seed pod. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, Songnan Bai, Qingning He and Pakpong Chirarattananon, describe how they used th...
May 16, 2022
Water scarcity is a significant global issue. Seawater desalination is a well-established method for producing drinkable water, but it has high energy costs. Fluorous nanotubes. Reducing the energy...
May 16, 2022
In an article recently published in the journal ACS Applied Material Interfaces, the authors summarized glioma stem cell-based therapies and their mechanism of action against GBM, drawing attention to nanomedicines strategies.
May 16, 2022
