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Stretchable nanogenerators harvest energy from gentle wind breezes

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers researcher demonstrate that a gentle wind-driven triboelectric nanogenerator can efficiently harvest energy from ultralowspeed wind/airflow of 0.7?6 m meters per second.

Aug 18, 2020

Insect wings inspire new ways to fight superbugs

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists have revealed how nanomaterials inspired by insect wings are able to destroy bacteria on contact.

Aug 18, 2020

Insect wings inspire new ways to fight superbugs: Scientists reveal how nanomaterials inspired by insect wings are able to destroy bacteria on contact - by stretching, slicing or tearing them apart

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

The wings of cicadas and dragonflies are natural bacteria killers, inspiring scientists who are searching for new ways to defeat drug-resistant superbugs. They've now revealed how bioinspired nanomaterials physically destroy bacteria. It'...

Aug 18, 2020

Further details revealed about a highly-efficient anticancer drug delivery system

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

The majority of drug delivery systems use nano carriers to transport drugs due to their small size and ability to distribute drugs to otherwise inaccessible sites of the body. The downside to this small size, however, is that large quantities are ...

Aug 18, 2020

New nanopore technique offers proof-of-concept of earlier, safer tumor detection

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have developed a nanopore technique which, in laboratory tests, has shown potential to offer a powerful, quick-and-easy tool for mutation detection.

Aug 18, 2020

Researchers synthesize a new 2D carbon allotrope: semiconducting diamane film

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers use diamondization of mechanically exfoliated few-layer graphene via compression, to synthesize the long-sought-after diamane film.

Aug 18, 2020

Scientists slow and steer light with resonant nanoantennas

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Light is notoriously fast. Its speed is crucial for rapid information exchange, but as light zips through materials, its chances of interacting and exciting atoms and molecules can become very small. If scientists can put the brakes on light parti...

Aug 18, 2020

Promising strategies to enhance separation selectivity of nanofiltration

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne), and the University of Chicago in the U.S. have searched for, and summarized, recent developments in the field of...

Aug 18, 2020

Further details revealed about a highly efficient anticancer drug delivery system

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

The majority of drug delivery systems use nano carriers to transport drugs due to their small size and ability to distribute drugs to otherwise inaccessible sites of the body. The downside to this small size, however, is that large quantities are ...

Aug 18, 2020

A Novel Approach to Produce Unconventional Nanoalloys for Electrocatalytic Application

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Metallic alloys at nanometer scale (nanoalloys) have great potentials in electrocatalysis. The interaction among different components in nanoalloys may modify the electronic configurations of active...

Aug 18, 2020

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