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A new method to produce gold nanoparticles in cancer cells

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Dipanjan Pan, professor of chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering at UMBC, and collaborators published a seminal study in Nature Communications that demonstrates for the first time a method of biosynthesizing plasmonic gold nanoparti...

Sep 11, 2020

Regulating the absorption spectrum of polydopamine

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Polydopamine (PDA) is an advanced functional material and its emergent light absorption properties make it crucial for applications in materials science. However, it is challenging to rationally design and regulate PDA absorption properties due to...

Sep 11, 2020

A high-yield method for assembling targeted nanoparticle clusters

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A team of researchers from China, the U.S. and Canada has developed a high-yield method for assembling targeted nanoparticle clusters. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their method and possible uses for it. Oleg...

Sep 11, 2020

Significant leap forward in method for cancer treatment

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Eindhoven University of Technology Professor Jan C.M. van Hest has announced a breakthrough in non-invasive cancer treatment. His Institute for Complex Molecular Systems partnered with several Chinese research institutions to test a nanotechnology...

Sep 11, 2020

Nano-microscope gives first direct observation of the magnetic properties of 2D materials

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Researchers show that it is possible to study the magnetic properties of ultrathin materials directly, via a new microscopy technique that opens the door to the discovery of more two-dimensional magnetic materials, with all sorts of potential appl...

Sep 11, 2020

New Nanoparticle Antitumor Vaccines Control Melanoma Growth in Preclinical Models

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At the Wistar Institute, researchers merged synthetic DNA technology with their expertise in protein engineering to successfully create nanoparticle antitumor vaccines that stimulated strong CD8 T...

Sep 11, 2020

Nano-microscope gives first direct observation of the magnetic properties of 2-D materials

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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 opens the door to the discovery of more two-dime...

Sep 11, 2020

Low-Cost, Eco-Friendly Nanofluid can Efficiently Recover Heavy Oil from Reservoirs

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A group of scientists from the University of Houston has recently demonstrated that a non-toxic and low-cost nanofluid can be applied to efficiently recover even highly viscous heavy oil from...

Sep 11, 2020

Sustainable synthesis of carbon nanotubes

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Scientists explore the low-temperature growth of carbon nanotubes.

Sep 11, 2020

Detecting the handedness of a single nanoparticle

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Scientists from the Micro, Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have developed a new spectroscopic-microscope, which can be used to observe a single nanoparticle in real time. This enabled the first de...

Sep 11, 2020

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