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Engineering single-molecule fluorescence with asymmetric nano-antennas

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NIR fluorescence has shown great potential in bioscience, but low quantum-yield has largely impeded research on most NIR fluorophores. Here, scientists in China use asymmetric plasmonic nano-antennas to drastically enhance an NIR dye's single...

Apr 23, 2021

A student's physics project could make quantum computers twice as reliable

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A remarkably simple change in the codes used to correct errors in quantum computers could half the number of destabilizing mistakes in these systems.

Apr 23, 2021

New Discovery Could Help Fine-Tune Nanoparticle Alloys for Specific Uses

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There's gold in them thar nanoparticles, and there used to be a lot of silver, too. But much of the silver has leached away, and researchers want to know how. Gold-silver alloys are useful...

Apr 23, 2021

Nanofiltration Membranes for Removal of Heavy Metals from Industrial Wastewater

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NUST MISIS scientists together with Indian colleagues from Jain University and Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College presented innovative membranes for the complete removal of heavy metals from...

Apr 23, 2021

Using Hard X-ray Transient Grating to Investigate Nanoscale Transport Phenomena

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Transient grating spectroscopy is an elegant method that uses two laser pulses to activate a medium by creating an interference pattern made of parallel stripes of excitations that can be thermal,...

Apr 23, 2021

'Planar and curved' pyrrole-fused azacoronenes

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Recent study on synthetic approaches toward polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) such as graphene with a well-defined structure have attracted much attention. A research group at Ehime University has been studying the synthesis and fundamental ...

Apr 23, 2021

ExoSCOPE monitors cancer treatment in real-time at the molecular level – Physics World

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Nanoscale membrane vesicles offer potential for visualizing drug–target interactions during cancer treatments The post ExoSCOPE monitors cancer treatment in real-time at the molecular level appeared first on Physics World.

Apr 23, 2021

Combination of Nanoparticles and Bioglass can Help Fight Harmful Bacteria

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Bacteria are presently ahead of humans in the arms race 'mankind against bacteria.' Antibiotics—the previous miracle weapons of humans—are failing more often because tricky...

Apr 23, 2021

Nanoform and Aprecia Collaborate to Advance 3D Printed Nanomedicines

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Nanoform Finland Plc, an innovative nanoparticle medicine enabling company, and Aprecia, the 3DP (three-dimensional printing) pharmaceutical company, announce that they are exploring the synergies...

Apr 23, 2021

Direct observation of the ad- and desorption of guest atoms into a mesoporous host

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Battery electrodes, storage devices for gases, and some catalyst materials have tiny functional pores that can accommodate atoms, ions, and molecules. How these guest atoms are absorbed into or released from the pores is crucial to understanding ...

Apr 23, 2021

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