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Simultaneous Detection, Sizing and Chemical Identification of Nanoplastic Mixtures

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Postnova Analytics has published an application note that describes the novel hyphenation of Centrifugal Field-Flow Fractionation (CF3) with UV, MALS and Raman detection and how it has enabled...

Oct 14, 2020

Scientists produce biodegradable nanocoating with antimicrobial and anti-reflective properties

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Scientists from Russia and Switzerland have probed into nanostructures covering the corneas of the eyes of small fruit flies. Investigating them the team learned how to produce the safe biodegradable nanocoating with antimicrobial, anti-reflective...

Oct 14, 2020

COVID-19 rapid test has successful lab results, research moves to next stages

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Rapid detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in about 30 seconds following the test, has had successful preliminary results in Mano Misra's lab at the University of Nevada, Reno. The test uses a nanotube-based electrochemical biosensor, a similar...

Oct 14, 2020

Bringing a power tool from math into quantum computing

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The Fourier transform is a mathematical operation essential to virtually all fields of physics and engineering. Although there already exists an algorithm that computes the Fourier transform in quantum computers, it is not versatile enough for man...

Oct 14, 2020

Rare Form of Magnetism Unlocked by Stacking and Twisting Graphene

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Twisting a monolayer and a bilayer sheet of graphene into a three-layer structure leads to new quantum mechanical states. Since the discovery of graphene more... The post Rare Form of Magnetism Unlocked by Stacking and Twisting Graphene appeared ...

Oct 13, 2020

Enzyme conformation influences the performance of lipase‐powered nanomotors

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A study by scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), the Universidad Complutense (UCM), Universidad de Girona (UdG), and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), working together with other internat...

Oct 13, 2020

Controlling the speed of enzyme motors brings biomedical applications of nanorobots closer

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Recent advances in this field have made micro- and nanomotors promising devices for solving many biomedical problems.

Oct 13, 2020

Scientists replicated self-cleaning anti-reflective coating of insects' eyes

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have probed into nanostructures covering the corneas of the eyes of small fruit flies. Investigating them the team learned how to produce the safe biodegradable nanocoating with antimicrobial, anti-reflective, and self-cleaning properti...

Oct 13, 2020

Building 'ToxAll' - a smart, self-assembling nano-vaccine to prevent toxoplasmosis

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A team of researchers are developing a toolbox of self-assembling nanoparticles to be used as vaccines against infections including the parasitic Toxoplasma gondii.

Oct 13, 2020

Well-formed disorder for versatile light technologies

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have managed to make an efficient material for broadband frequency doubling of light using microspheres made of disordered nanocrystals. The crucial idea for the method arose during a coffee break. In the future, the new approach could...

Oct 13, 2020

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