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Team creates new tool to speed up the design of wearable tech

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In a new paper published by Nano Energy, experts from the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) at the University of Surrey detail a new methodology that allows designers of smart-wearables to better understand and predict how their products would p...

Apr 17, 2018

New type of opal formed by common seaweed discovered

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Scientists have discovered a completely new type of opal formed by a common seaweed which harnesses natural technology by self-assembling a nanostructure of oil droplets to control how light reflects from its cells to display a shimmering array of...

Apr 17, 2018

Nanomotor guided inside a living cell using a magnetic field

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A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore has developed a type of nanomotor that can be guided inside of a living cell using an external magnetic field. In their paper published in the journal Advanced Materials, the gr...

Apr 17, 2018

BESSY II sheds light on how the internal compass is constructed in magnetotactic bacteria

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Magnetotactic bacteria can sense the Earth's magnetic field via magnetic nanoparticles in their interior that act as an internal compass. Spanish teams and experts at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have now examined the magnetic compass of Magnetospiril...

Apr 17, 2018

Graphene-oxide-based membranes for large-scale energy storage systems

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As a promising large-scale energy storage technology, redox flow batteries (RFBs) are attracting increasingly more research attention. For RFB separators, the essential requirement is achieving high ionic conductivity with minimal cross-over at lo...

Apr 17, 2018

Graphene Is Grown With the Same Bandgap as Silicon

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No doping or nanostructuring is required for new bottom-up method to grow graphene with a perfect bandgap

Apr 16, 2018

Graphene Is Grown With the Same Bandgap as Silicon

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

No doping or nanostructuring is required for new bottom-up method to grow graphene with a perfect bandgap

Apr 16, 2018

Driving nanomotors through road blocks inside living cells

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Researchers demonstrate that helical shaped magnetic nanomotors can be maneuvered inside a living cell. This new and versatile technique has the potential ability to position any payload at any desired location inside a living cell itself, which i...

Apr 16, 2018

Nanobots Glide Through Living Cells

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Rotating magnetic fields precisely steer the nanomachines, tracing letters in cytoplasm

Apr 13, 2018

Nanosilicates grow bone and cartilage tissue from stem cells in the absence of growth factors

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Researchers have demonstrated that a specific type of two-dimensional (2D) nanoparticles, nanosilicates, can grow bone and cartilage tissue from stem cells in the absence of growth factors. These nanoparticles are similar in shape to a coin, but 1...

Apr 13, 2018

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