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New Project Explores Cytosolic Access and Instability of DNA Nanoparticles

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Divita Mathur, Research Assistant Professor, is studying cytosolic access and instability of DNA nanoparticles. A number of candidate therapies such as CRISPR-Cas9 and gene silencing require the...

Jun 8, 2021

Absorbent aerogels show some muscle

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A simple chemical process developed at Rice University creates light and highly absorbent aerogels that can take a beating.

Jun 8, 2021

Compositional dependence of perovskite nanocrystal properties

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from Skoltech and Ludwig Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Germany have studied the fundamental properties of halide perovskite nanocrystals, a promising class of optoelectronic materials. Using a combination of theory and experiment, t...

Jun 8, 2021

Early endeavors on the path to reliable quantum machine learning

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

The future quantum computers should be capable of super-fast and reliable computation. Today, this is still a major challenge. Now, computer scientists conduct an early exploration for reliable quantum machine learning.

Jun 8, 2021

Super productive 3D bioprinter could help speed up drug development

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

A new 3D bioprinter developed by nanoengineers operates at record speed -- it can print a 96-well array of living human tissue samples within 30 minutes. The technology could help accelerate high-throughput preclinical drug screening and make it l...

Jun 8, 2021

Stepstone for sustainable batteries – greener carbons

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Lithium-ion batteries require in addition to lithium metal a number of sophisticated functional materials for their performance. Some of them sound rather unspectacular: conductive additives. In fact, conductive additives like carbon black or car...

Jun 8, 2021

Low-Cost Synthetic Diamond Fabrication Could Step Up Quantum Tech

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Using a thin tungsten layer as a restraining, conductive, removable hard mask, researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) developed a method for the fabrication of synthetic diamond. The developed material can be used for the photoni...

Jun 8, 2021

Two-faced carbon nanotube particles generate electricity in MIT device

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

Engineers at MIT have developed a device that generates electricity using a completely new mechanism. “Particles” made of carbon nanotubes are dunked in an organic solvent, which induces a current to potentially power small robots or drive chemica...

Jun 8, 2021

Nanozymes to the rescue - potential role in fighting COVID-19

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

Over the last few decades, researchers have developed artificial enzymes for many applications. Recently, they deployed nanomaterial-based enzyme mimetics or nanozymes in diagnosis and therapeutics. Nanozymes find applications in various biomedica...

Jun 8, 2021

Super productive 3D bioprinter could help speed up drug development

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A new 3D bioprinter developed by UC San Diego nanoengineers operates at record speed--it can print a 96-well array of living human tissue samples within 30 minutes. The technology could help accelerate high-throughput preclinical drug screening an...

Jun 8, 2021

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