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Shape Affects Nanocatalyst’s Ability to Photocatalyze Chemical Reactions

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Points matter when designing nanoparticles that drive important chemical reactions using the power of light. Researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) have long known...

Sep 21, 2020

Magnetic Properties of Ultrathin Materials can be Studied Using New Nano-Microscope

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Australian researchers and their colleagues from Russia and China have shown that it is possible to study the magnetic properties of ultrathin materials directly, via a new microscopy technique that...

Sep 21, 2020

Fraunhofer Leads £10M Effort to Advance Quantum Tech

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

In a project named QT Assemble, Fraunhofer’s Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP) is leading a collaborative effort to make quantum technology easier to adopt. The project aims to address the challenges of size, weight, power, and reliability throug...

Sep 21, 2020

4D nanomedicine based on biodegradable and biocompatible nanoalloys: difficult as catching a comet!

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Imagine catching a comet. Now imagine the comet is as small as a few billionths of meters and it is made of elements from the periodic table that do not like each other; whose fate is that of separate in space and dissolve in biological environmen...

Sep 21, 2020

Nanoparticle SARS-CoV-2 model may speed drug discovery for COVID-19

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists have developed a new tool that mimics how the virus that causes COVID-19 infects a cell, potentially speeding the search for treatments against the disease. The tool is a fluorescent nanoparticle probe that uses the spike protein on the...

Sep 21, 2020

NASA's IRIS spots nanojets: Shining light on heating the solar corona

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

In a paper published today in Nature Astronomy, researchers report the first ever clear images of nanojets -- bright thin lights that travel perpendicular to the magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere, called the corona -- in a process that r...

Sep 21, 2020

Scientists propose multifunctional liquid metal nanocapsules

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Prof. LI Chaoxu and his coworkers from the Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have proposed multifunctional liquid metal nanocapsules.

Sep 21, 2020

Study on the effect of rosemary and ginger essential oils against Klebsiella pneumoniae

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

This study aims at investigating the antimicrobial and antibiofilm effect of rosemary and ginger essential oil-based nano-sized formulations on colistin resistant K. pneumonia clinical isolates.

Sep 21, 2020

German Scientists Design World's Smallest Ultrasound Detector

Science Times   -   Scientific News Websites

Using nanotechnology and silicon-on-insulator technology, scientists develop a tiny ultrasound detector that can create images of cells and small fragments of tissue. The developers hope the technology can also be expanded outside medical applicat...

Sep 20, 2020

Aluminum “Octopods” – Shape Matters for Light-Activated Nanocatalysts

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Study: Pointed tips on aluminum ‘octopods’ increase catalytic reactivity. Points matter when designing nanoparticles that drive important chemical reactions using the power of light. Researchers... The post Aluminum “Octopods” – Shape Matters for...

Sep 20, 2020

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