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Research Investigates Whether Combination of Nanoparticles and Light Waves can Better Treat Battlefield TBIs

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Chair of the Bioengineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington is investigating whether a combination of nanoparticles and light therapy can better treat traumatic brain injuries on...

May 5, 2021

Colloidal Nanoparticles Advance Frontiers of Synthetic Chemistry

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Researchers from the School of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews (UK) are using a DrySyn Spiral Evaporator from Asynt to help synthesize novel reactive colloidal nanoparticles that present an...

May 5, 2021

Researchers confront major hurdle in quantum computing

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Quantum science has the potential to revolutionize modern technology with more efficient computers, communication, and sensing devices. But

May 5, 2021

Integrated Metaform Device Delivers Compact AR/VR Eyewear

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A team from the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics imprinted freeform optics with a metasurface, in a combination of optical technologies that charts a course for a new fabrication method for AR/VR glasses. The metasurface, a silver nan...

May 5, 2021

Study Addresses Potential Harmful Effects of Nanoplastics on Various Ecosystems

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The images would definitely touch everyone: huge vortices of floating plastic trash in the global oceans with occasionally catastrophic consequences for their inhabitants—an overwhelming legacy...

May 5, 2021

Nanoplastics Everywhere: Scientists Find Small Plastic Particles in Various Ecosystems

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One of the defining features of the Anthropocene, or the age of the modern human, is the presence of microplastics - and scientists continue to report even smaller pieces found virtually everywhere.

May 5, 2021

Direct drug delivery with carbon nanotube porins

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Modern medicine relies on an extensive arsenal of drugs to combat deadly diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, HIV-AIDS

May 5, 2021

Nanoscope presents novel gene delivery and electrophysiology platforms at ARVO

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Nanoscope Technologies LLC, a biotechnology company developing gene therapies for treatment of retinal diseases, is featuring multiple scientific presentations highlighting its groundbreaking research on optical gene delivery for vision restoratio...

May 5, 2021

Magnetic material invented by Irish scientists 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 switc...

May 5, 2021

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

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A study by the UPV/EHU's CBET research group and the University of Bordeaux has shown that graphene oxide nanomaterials, alone and combined with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pose a potential source of toxicity to fish, but at concentrati...

May 5, 2021

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