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Smart magnetic soft materials to develop artificial muscles and therapeutic robots

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Developing a new generation of artificial muscles and soft nanorobots for drug delivery are some of the long-term goals of 4D-BIOMAP, an ERC research project being undertaken by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).This project develops cro...

May 6, 2021

Small apoptotic bodies: Nirvana, birth and death

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Scientists from Nanjing University and University of Macau have discovered nano-scaled apoptotic bodies (ABs) as a new brain-targeting drug carrier, bringing new promise for the Parkinson's Disease as well as other brain diseases.

May 6, 2021

Magnetic material breaks super-fast switching record

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Researchers at CRANN (The Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices), and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin, today announced that a magnetic material developed at the Centre demonstrates the fastest magnetic swit...

May 5, 2021

Like a Trojan horse, graphene oxide can act as a carrier of organic pollutants to fish

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Graphene is a two-dimensional nanomaterial composed of carbon and formed by a single layer of densely packed carbon atoms. The high mechanical strength and significant electrical and thermal properties of graphene mean that it is highly suited to ...

May 5, 2021

Superconductivity, high critical temperature found in 2D semimetal tungsten nitride

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Superconductivity in two-dimensional (2D) systems has attracted much attention in recent years, both because of its relevance to our understanding of fundamental physics and because of potential technological applications in nanoscale devices such...

May 5, 2021

An uncrackable combination of invisible ink and artificial intelligence

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Coded messages in invisible ink sound like something only found in espionage books, but in real life, they can have important security purposes. Yet, they can be cracked if their encryption is predictable. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied...

May 5, 2021

Release of drugs from a supramolecular cage

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How can a highly effective drug be transported to the precise location in the body where it is needed? In the journal Angewandte Chemie, chemists at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) together with colleagues in Aachen present a solution u...

May 5, 2021

An uncrackable combination of invisible ink and artificial intelligence

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Coded messages in invisible ink sound like something only found in espionage books, but in real life, they can have important security purposes. Yet, they can be cracked if their encryption is predictable. Now, researchers have printed complexly e...

May 5, 2021

Release of drugs from a supramolecular cage

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How can a highly effective drug be transported to the precise location in the body where it is needed? Chemists now present a solution using a molecular cage that opens through ultrasonification.

May 5, 2021

A high-tech textile to stay comfortable outdoors

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Clothing, from tank tops to parkas, helps people adapt to temperatures outdoors. But you can only put on or take off so much of it, and fluctuations in weather can render what you are wearing entirely inadequate. In a new study in ACS' Nano L...

May 5, 2021

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