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A Dab of Sunscreen Key To Solar Windows That Last Decades

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

A new approach by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor might dramatically extend the working life of solar windows. In a new study, researchers said their solar cell design can operate at high efficiencies for up to 30 years—roughly on par with...

Sep 30, 2021

Monolayer strain sensor sets new record – Physics World

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A new atomically-thick strain sensor is 100 times more sensitive than commercial devices and 10 times more sensitive than alternative versions based on graphene. According to its developers at China’s Peking University, the prototype device, which...

Sep 30, 2021

Connecting the dots between material properties and qubit performance

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Scientists studying superconducting qubits identified structural and chemical defects that may be causing quantum information loss -- an obstacle to practical quantum computation.

Sep 30, 2021

Researchers develop fluorescence quenching assay to probe the integrity of cell membrane coating

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

Cell membrane coated biomimetic nanoparticles (NPs) have been widely studied in nanomedicine because of their unique properties such as immune escaping, long blood circulation, specific molecular recognition and efficient cancer targeting, indicat...

Sep 30, 2021

New nanoparticle developed for intravenous cancer immunotherapy

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Cancer immunotherapy seeks to turn 'cold' tumors into 'hot' tumors -- those that respond to immunotherapy -- by awakening and enlisting the body's own immune system.

Sep 30, 2021

New nanoparticle developed for intravenous cancer immunotherapy

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Cancer immunotherapy seeks to turn "cold" tumors into "hot" tumors––those that respond to immunotherapy––by awakening and enlisting the body's own immune system.

Sep 30, 2021

Novel fluorescence imaging assay gives new insight to develop biomimetic nanoparticles for targeted cancer therapy

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers developed a fluorescence quenching assay to probe the integrity of the cell membrane coating of biomimetic nanoparticles (NPs) , discovering that the great majority of the cell membrane coated NPs were only partially coated when the tr...

Sep 30, 2021

Novel fluorescence imaging assay gives new insight to develop biomimetic nanoparticles for targeted cancer therapy

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Cell membrane coated biomimetic nanoparticles (NPs) have been widely studied in nanomedicine because of their unique properties such as immune escaping, long blood circulation, specific molecular recognition and efficient cancer targeting, indicat...

Sep 30, 2021

New nanomaterial for treatment of skin infections

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS (IOCB Prague) and the Technical University of Liberec in collaboration with researchers from the Institute of Microbiology of the CAS, the Department of Burns Medicine o...

Sep 30, 2021

New method to deliver therapeutic drugs using elongated nanocrystals

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Monash University researchers have used advanced techniques at ANSTO to investigate the production of new, elongated polymer nanocapsules with a high payload of drug nanocrystals to potentially increase drug targetability, and also decrease dosage...

Sep 30, 2021

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