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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

Nanocrystal encapsulation and delivery of water-insoluble drugs

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New research findings show that besides their applications in bioimaging techniques as phosphorescent markers, the new platinum nanocrystals may also have an application in biomedicine: to encapsulate water-insoluble drugs.

Nov 7, 2020

Germanium telluride's hidden properties at the nanoscale revealed

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Germanium Telluride is an interesting candidate material for spintronic devices. In a comprehensive study, researchers have now revealed how the spin texture switches by ferroelectric polarization within individual nanodomains.

Nov 7, 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.

Nov 6, 2020

Wally the Llama's Nanobodies May Become Novel Treatment for Coronavirus

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Special llama antibodies, known as nanobodies, may become a powerful treatment against coronavirus.

Nov 6, 2020

The applications of liquid crystals have been extended to drug encapsulation

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Researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the NOVA University of Lisbon (UNL) have used platinum (Pt) compounds of a liquid crystalline nature to design nanocrystal structures capable of effectively encapsulating and transpor...

Nov 6, 2020

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