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Detecting bacteria with fluorescent nanosensors: Luminous carbon nanotubes detect pathogens - and are quick and easy to use

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have developed a new method for detecting bacteria and infections. They use fluorescent nanosensors to track down pathogens faster and more easily than with established methods.

Nov 30, 2020

Researchers run a 'speed test' to boost production of carbon nanotubes

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have investigated the procedure for catalyst delivery used in the most common method of carbon nanotube production, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), offering what they call a simple and elegant way to boost productivity and pave the wa...

Nov 30, 2020

Scientists run a 'speed test' to boost production of carbon nanotubes

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Skoltech researchers have investigated the procedure for catalyst delivery used in the most common method of carbon nanotube production, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), offering what they call a "simple and elegant" way to boost product...

Nov 30, 2020

Scientists explain how to store cipher data in magnetic skyrmions

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with international collaborators have proposed direct magnetic writing of skyrmions, i.e., magnetic quasiparticles, and skyrmion lattices, within which it is possible to encode, transmit, process...

Nov 30, 2020

DNA Nanotechnology Could Help Combat Antibiotics-Resistant Bacteria

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Antibiotics are drugs that help prevent and treat bacterial infections. They have had a huge role to play in fighting infectious diseases such as pneumonia, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and meningitis...

Nov 30, 2020

A shapeshifting material based on inorganic matter

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

By embedding titanium-based nanosheets in water, scientists have created a material using inorganic materials that can be converted from a hard gel to soft matter using temperature changes.

Nov 30, 2020

Deflating graphene balloons act as sensors for hard-to-detect gases

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

With excellent strength, flexibility and electrical conductivity, graphene has a lot of potential in a lot of different areas, and that may extend to the detection of odorless, colorless gases. Scientists have fashioned the nanomaterial into micro...

Nov 30, 2020

Magnetic vortices come full circle

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

The first experimental observation of three-dimensional magnetic 'vortex rings' provides fundamental insight into intricate nanoscale structures inside bulk magnets, and offers fresh perspectives for magnetic devices.

Nov 30, 2020

Hitting the quantum 'sweet spot': Researchers find best position for atom qubits in silicon

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Australian researchers have located the 'sweet spot' for positioning qubits in silicon to scale up atom-based quantum processors.

Nov 30, 2020

Sustainable regenerated isotropic wood

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A high-performance sustainable regenerated isotropic wood (RGI-wood) is reported, constructed from surface nanocrystallized wood particles (SNWP) by efficient bottom-up strategy. The obtained RGI-wood exceeds the limitation of the anisotropic, inc...

Nov 30, 2020

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