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Building safer medical devices with innovative protective nanoparticle coating

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Every year, over a million people develop health care-acquired infections during their hospital stays. And around 100,000 of them die from those complications.

Dec 18, 2020

New Nanomaterial from Silk of Gorse Spider Mite has Biomedical Properties

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

An international team of researchers has developed a new nanomaterial from the silk produced by the Tetranychus lintearius mite. This nanomaterial has the ability to penetrate human cells without...

Dec 18, 2020

Tuning nanomaterials at the atomic scale could transform clean energy technology

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Using an innovative chemical strategy, a team of researchers have produced a new form of catalyst using the elements cobalt and titanium. The advantage of these elements is that they are much more abundant in nature than other commonly used cataly...

Dec 18, 2020

Ultra-fast gas flows through tiniest holes in 2D membranes

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester and the University of Pennsylvania have identified ultra-fast gas flows through the tiniest holes in one-atom-thin membranes, in a study published in Science Advances .

Dec 18, 2020

Nanotechnology -- nanoparticles as weapons against cancer

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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers have developed a novel type of nanoparticle that efficiently and selectively kills cancer cells, thus opening up new therapeutic options for the treatment of tumors.

Dec 18, 2020

New discovery brings analogue spintronic devices closer

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The observation of nonlinearity in electron spin-related processes in graphene makes it easier to transport, manipulate and detect spins, as well as spin-to-charge conversion. It also allows analogue operations such as amplitude modulation and spi...

Dec 18, 2020

Power boost thanks to gold lamellae

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Terahertz light holds enormous potential for tomorrow's technologies. It might succeed 5G by enabling extremely fast mobile communications connections and wireless networks. The bottleneck in the transition from gigahertz to terahertz frequen...

Dec 18, 2020

Sound waves spin droplets to concentrate, separate nanoparticles

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Mechanical engineers at Duke University have devised a method for spinning individual droplets of liquid to concentrate and separate nanoparticles for biomedical purposes. The technique is much more efficient than traditional centrifuge approaches...

Dec 18, 2020

Ultra-Thin Designer Materials Unlock Elusive Quantum Phenomena With Huge Impact for Quantum Computing

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

New research, published in Nature, has measured highly sought-after Majorana quantum states. A team of theoretical and experimental physicists have designed a new ultra-thin material... The post Ultra-Thin Designer Materials Unlock Elusive Quantu...

Dec 17, 2020

Physicists in China challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Lots of researchers are working to demonstrate quantum advantage, that is, to perform calculations on quantum computers that

Dec 17, 2020

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