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Light-Responsive Hydrogels Safely Deliver Targeted Therapies

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A research team at Texas A&M University is using nanomaterials that absorb near-infrared (NIR) light to develop and manipulate light-responsive hydrogels. The NIR light to which the nanomaterials respond in the research enables therapeutic...

Jun 14, 2021

Researchers develop artificial gold nanoparticle to improve cancer treatments

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Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed nanotechnology that can serve as a basis for innovative medical approaches

Jun 14, 2021

Scientists discover how oxygen loss saps a lithium-ion battery's voltage

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SLAC and Stanford scientists took a unique and detailed nanoscale look at how oxygen seeps out of lithium-ion battery electrodes, sapping their energy over time. The results could suggest a fix.

Jun 14, 2021

New combination of materials provides progress toward quantum computing

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In research published today in Nature Communications, engineers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute demonstrated how, when the TMDC materials they make are stacked in a particular geometry, the interaction that occurs between particles gives res...

Jun 14, 2021

Insulators turn up the heat on quantum bits

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Physicists have long suspected that dielectric materials may significantly disrupt ion-trap quantum computers. Now, researchers led by Tracy Northup have developed a new method to quantify this source of error for the first time. For the future op...

Jun 14, 2021

A step closer to a hydrogen-fuelled economy using an efficient anode for water splitting

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Researchers from Niigata University, Japan along with their collaborators from Yamagata University have developed a novel and highly efficient nickel sulphide nanowires/carbon nitride based anode for electrocatalytic water splitting applications. ...

Jun 14, 2021

New theranostic approach joins radiopharmaceuticals and nanoparticles to kill cancer cells

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Researchers have successfully developed a novel cancer treatment approach that utilizes Cerenkov radiation energy to target and destroy cancer cells more effectively. The approach uses light from decaying radiopharmaceuticals, known as Cerenkov lu...

Jun 14, 2021

Foldable, organic and easily broken down: Why DNA is the material of choice for nanorobots

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Only in cancer medicine do we aim to attack and kill legions of our own cells. But healthy

Jun 13, 2021

Nano Optics Breakthrough: Researchers Observe Sound-Light Pulses in 2D Materials for the First Time

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A Spatiotemporal Symphony of Light Using an ultrafast transmission electron microscope, researchers from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have, for the first time,... The post Nano Optics Breakthrough: Researchers Observe Sound-Light...

Jun 13, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Rice lab peers inside 2D crystal synthesis: Simulations could help molecular engineers enhance creation of semiconducting nanomaterials

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Scientific studies describing the most basic processes often have the greatest impact in the long run. A new work by Rice University engineers could be one such, and its a gas, gas, gas for nanomater...

Jun 12, 2021

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