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Coating plastics by porous nanofilm

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A research team has developed a new method for creating metal-organic framework (MOF) thin films that can be applied to sensors and electric devices.

Nov 9, 2020

Hollow porphyrinic nanospheres

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IBS research team developed a template-free, one-pot synthesis of a porphyrin-based gigantic organic cages composed of multi-porphyrin units.

Nov 9, 2020

Bringing drugs to the brain with nanoparticles to treat neurodegenerative diseases

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Researchers from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) have shown that nanoparticles could be used to deliver drugs to the brain to treat neurodegenerative diseases.

Nov 9, 2020

A better understanding of coral skeleton growth suggests ways to restore reefs

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In a new study, University of Wisconsin-Madison physicists observed reef-forming corals at the nanoscale and identified how they create their skeletons. The results provide an explanation for how corals are resistant to acidifying oceans and sugge...

Nov 9, 2020

Scientists Grow Carbon Nanotube Forest Much Longer Than any Other

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Novel technique yields a carbon nanotube forest of record length, potentially revolutionizing the future of many industries Today, a multitude of industries, including optics, electronics, water...

Nov 8, 2020

Llama Nanobodies Could Be a Powerful New Weapon Against COVID-19

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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine describe, in the journal Science, a new method to extract tiny but extremely powerful SARS-CoV-2 antibody... The post Llama Nanobodies Could Be a Powerful New Weapon Against COVID-19 ...

Nov 8, 2020

Know When to Unfold ’Em: Applying High Energy Physics Methods to Quantum Computing

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‘Unfolding’ techniques used to improve the accuracy of particle detector data can also improve the readout of quantum states from a quantum computer. Borrowing a... The post Know When to Unfold ’Em: Applying High Energy Physics Methods to Quantum...

Nov 7, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Industrial-strength brine, meet your kryptonite: Boron nitride coating is key ingredient in hypersaline desalination technology

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A thin coating of the 2D nanomaterial hexagonal boron nitride is the key ingredient in a cost-effective technology developed by Rice University engineers for desalinating industrial-strength brine.

Nov 7, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Higher-resolution imaging of living, moving cells using plasmonic metasurfaces: Metasurface of self-assembled gold nanoparticles shown to improve resolution of fluorescence images of living cells under a widefield optical microscope to the theoretical limit

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In the quest to image exceedingly small structures and phenomenon with higher precision, scientists have been pushing the limits of optical microscope resolution, but these advances often come with in...

Nov 7, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Germanium telluride's hidden properties at the nanoscale revealed

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Germanium telluride (GeTe) is known as a ferrolectric Rashba semiconductor with a number of interesting properties. The crystals consist of nanodomains, whose ferrolectric polarization can be switched...

Nov 7, 2020

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