New research into the effectiveness of electrospun nanofibres has found that nanofibre filter media provides significantly increased protection against bacteria and viruses such as COVID-19...
Aug 24, 2020
Case Western Reserve scientists, collaborators at Harvard and Italian university Unical, aim to ‘revolutionize optics’ by combining nanostructured metasurfaces with liquid crystal technology. For more... The post A New Lens on the World: Revoluti...
Aug 23, 2020
The Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) was presented at Hot Chips. Sanders Olson provided Nextbigfuture with the presentation deck. The Cerebras in the most powerful processor for AI with 1.2 trillion transistors. It has * 400,000 AI-optimized core...
Aug 23, 2020
Scientists reveal how nanomaterials inspired by insect wings are able to destroy bacteria on contact — by stretching, slicing or tearing them apart. The wings... The post New Nanomaterials Inspired by Insect Wings Destroy Super-Bacteria – By Stre...
Aug 22, 2020
Researchers have fashioned ultrathin silicon nanoantennas that trap and redirect light, for applications in quantum computing, LIDAR and even the detection of viruses. Light is... The post Stanford Scientists Slow Light Down and Steer It With Res...
Aug 22, 2020
Programmable DNA nanoswitches that bind to viral RNA in human body fluids may provide an inexpensive platform to rapidly detect a wide variety of emerging viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, according to a...
Aug 22, 2020
n a paper published in NANO, researchers from Shanghai Normal University, China prepared organophilic carbon nanodots (CNDs) using natural organic molecules in plant leaves by a one-pot green synthesi...
Aug 22, 2020
Scientists show that azobenzene-containing film, important for many industries, does not need to be made entirely of light-sensitive material to function.
Aug 22, 2020
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced today that Cambridge, MA-based Torus BiosystemsTM, Inc., will develop and commercialize DNA nanotechnology developed at the Wyss Institute by Peng Yin and Dav...
Aug 21, 2020
Inserting genetic material into the body to treat diseases caused by gene mutations can work, scientists say - but getting those materials to the right place safely is tricky. Scientists now report that the lipid-based nanoparticles they engineere...
Aug 21, 2020
