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Carbon Nanotube Implants Offer Therapeutic Approach for Spinal Injuries

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

New research performed by SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies) and the University of Trieste has demonstrated that carbon nanotube implants can effectively restore motor functions, paving...

Sep 29, 2020

Nanoparticle chomps away plaques that cause heart attacks

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Michigan State University and Stanford University scientists have invented a nanoparticle that eats away – from the inside

Sep 29, 2020

Speaking with neurons: nanostructured neural electrodes

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers coordinated from IMDEA Nanociencia have designed improved electrodes for a more intimate interfacing with neurons. Knowing the

Sep 29, 2020

New study shows efficacy of carbon nanotube implants to restore motor functions

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

A new study conducted by SISSA and the University of Trieste shows the efficacy of carbon nanotube implants to restore motor functions and paves the way for a new therapeutic approach for spinal cord injuries.

Sep 29, 2020

Why disordered light-harvesting systems produce ordered outcomes

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists typically prefer to work with ordered systems. However, a diverse team of physicists and biophysicists from the University of Groningen found that individual light-harvesting nanotubes with disordered molecular structures still transpor...

Sep 29, 2020

Scientists studied nanoparticles embedded in silver-ion-exchanged glasses

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers have registered the formation of silver nanoparticles in an ion-exchanged glass as a result of infrared laser irradiation. The research of current studies were published in the journal of Nanomaterials.

Sep 29, 2020

ESA’s Φ-Week 2020 Highlights Digital Twin Earth, AI, and Quantum Computing

Science Times   -   Scientific News Websites

ESA’s Φ-Week kicked off on September 28 and will last until October 2 highlighting Digital Twin Earth, ɸ-sat-1, and quantum computing.

Sep 28, 2020

Metallic nanoribbons fill missing link for all-carbon devices – Physics World

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

New carbon nanomaterial could deliver faster, higher efficiency electronics. This opens a bandgap that makes the material a semiconductor or even an insulator. Now, researchers in the US have shown how to produce graphene nanoribbons with robust m...

Sep 28, 2020

Neurons in spinal-cord injuries are reconnected in vivo via carbon nanotube sponges

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Research conducted by two groups at the Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials CIC biomaGUNE and one at SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Italy), have shown that functional materials based on carbon nanotubes facil...

Sep 28, 2020

Spinal carbon nanotube implants restore motor functions

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A new study shows the efficacy of carbon nanotube implants to restore motor functions and paves the way for a new therapeutic approach for spinal cord injuries.

Sep 28, 2020

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