Using a biomolecule known as B3 peptide, researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have developed an eco-friendly process to synthesize gold nanoparticles that have improved...
Jun 29, 2021
Multifunctional smart wound dressings have built-in nanosensors that glow under UV light, tracking and monitoring infection and the healing process.
Jun 29, 2021
A research team in Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) has developed co-axial electrospun nanofiber membranes fabricated by an alternative nanotechnology, which is electrospinning. This new desalination technology s...
Jun 29, 2021
Penn Engineers' "metallic wood" gets its useful properties and name from a key structural feature of its natural counterpart: porosity. As a lattice of nanoscale nickel struts, metallic wood is full of cell-sized pores that radicall...
Jun 29, 2021
Jung-Tsung Shen at the McKelvey School of Engineering has developed a groundbreaking quantum logic gate that brings quantum computing closer to reality.
Jun 29, 2021
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered that minuscule, self-propelled particles called "nanoswimmers" can escape from mazes as much as 20 times faster than other, passive particles, paving the way for their use in eve...
Jun 29, 2021
RUDN University chemists derived molecules that can assemble into complex structures using chlorine and bromine halogen atoms. They bind to each other as 'velcro' -- chlorine 'sticks' to bromine, and vice versa. As a result sup...
Jun 29, 2021
The electronic properties of graphene can be specifically modified by stretching the material evenly, say researchers at the University of Basel. These results open the door to the development of new types of electronic components.
Jun 29, 2021
Scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have developed a nanoparticle composite that grows into 3D crystals. The new 3D-grown material could speed up production and eliminate errors in the mass manufacturing of nanoscale photonics for smart bui...
Jun 29, 2021
A new technique established by a team of researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Massachusetts reveals the fundamental physics of how a polymer such as DNA threads through holes 10,000 times smaller than the width of a h...
Jun 29, 2021
