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How Gold Nanoparticles Can Be Used to Kill Bacteria

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Image Credit: Shutterstock/ TAW4 Researchers have identified the physical mechanism that allows gold nanoparticles to effectively kill bacteria. The finding could lead to wider applications in...

Dec 15, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have created a color atlas for 466 unique varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.

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Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have created a color atlas for 466 unique varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.

Dec 15, 2020

New fullerene crystal production method 50 times faster than predecessor

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Researchers from Yokohama National University and the University of Electro-Communications in Japan have developed a highly efficient technique for producing a unique fullerene crystal, called fullerene finned-micropillar (FFMP), that is of signif...

Dec 15, 2020

Researchers develop novel nanoparticle that efficiently and selectively kills cancer cells

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Many chemotherapeutic agents used to treat cancers are associated with side-effects of varying severity, because they are toxic to normal cells as well as malignant tumors. This has motivated the search for effective alternatives to the synthetic ...

Dec 15, 2020

Novel type of nanoparticle efficiently and selectively kills cancer cells

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Researchers report the development of a class of novel amorphous nanoparticles made up of calcium and citrate, which are capable of breaching the barriers to uptake, and killing tumor cells in a targeted fashion.

Dec 15, 2020

Quantum mysteries: Probing an unusual state in the superconductor-insulator transition

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Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) approach the two decade-old mystery of why an anomalous metallic state appears in the superconductor-insulator transition in 2-D superconductors. Through experimental measurements of a therm...

Dec 15, 2020

Weak force has strong impact on nanosheets

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Scientists found that nature's ubiquitous 'weak' force is sufficient to indent rigid nanosheets, extending their potential for use in nanoscale optics or catalytic systems.

Dec 15, 2020

New fullerene crystal production method 50 times faster than predecessor

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have developed a highly efficient technique for producing a unique fullerene crystal, called fullerene finned-micropillar (FFMP), that is of significant use for next-generation electronics.

Dec 15, 2020

Reducing pesticide use with nanoparticles

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Researchers at the Adolphe Merkle Institute and the Department of Biology at the University of Fribourg have discovered how certain silica nanoparticles could act as a traceless, degradable, and highly efficient treatment against some plant pathog...

Dec 15, 2020

Catalytic activity of individual cobalt oxide nanoparticles determined

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Precious metal-free nanoparticles could serve as powerful catalysts in the future, for example for hydrogen production. To optimize them, researchers must be able to analyze the properties of individual particles. A new method for this has been su...

Dec 15, 2020

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