Nanoengineers have developed immune cell-mimicking nanoparticles that target inflammation in the lungs and deliver drugs directly where they're needed. As a proof of concept, the researchers filled the nanoparticles with the drug dexamethason...
Jun 16, 2021
While crop yield has achieved a substantial boost from nanotechnology in recent years, the alarms over the health risks posed by nanoparticles within fresh produce and grains have also increased. In particular, nanoparticles entering the soil thro...
Jun 16, 2021
Researchers have successfully used graphene -- one of the strongest, thinnest known materials -- to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus in laboratory experiments.
Jun 16, 2021
Scientists today track electrical signals and voltage changes in neurons and muscle cells by labeling individual cells or probing with electrodes. Scientists have now developed a new type of sensor that employs a sheet of graphene to get a continu...
Jun 16, 2021
Computer model simulates how interactions extend exciton lifetimes The post ‘Talking’ quantum dots could be used as qubits appeared first on Physics World.
Jun 16, 2021
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed immune cell-mimicking nanoparticles that target inflammation in the lungs and deliver drugs directly where they're needed. As a proof of concept, the researchers filled th...
Jun 16, 2021
MIT researchers make a major advance toward fully realizing quantum computation.
Jun 16, 2021
Quantum computers could outperform classical computers at many tasks, but only if the errors that are an inevitable part of computational tasks are isolated rather than widespread events. Now, researchers have found evidence that errors are correl...
Jun 16, 2021
The accumulation of micro- and nanoplastics in the environment continues at an alarming rate. A radiolabeling technique made it possible to monitor the movement and accumulation of plastics in the mouse body, as well as their elimination from it.
Jun 16, 2021
Researchers demonstrate the conversion of infrared images to the visible, using ultrathin and transparent semiconductor nanocrystals.
Jun 16, 2021
