At just 1/1000th of a millimeter, nanoparticles are impossible to see with the naked eye. But, despite being small, they're extremely important in many ways. If scientists want to take a close look at DNA, proteins, or viruses, then being abl...
Jul 27, 2020
An international team of scientists has completed the first ever study into the potential impact of naturally occurring and man-made nanoparticles on the health of all types of the major living species of animals.
Jul 27, 2020
In a recent report, Yufeng Liu and a team of interdisciplinary researchers in China developed an integrated nanozyme cascade to eliminate excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS; oxygen free radicals). The nanozyme mimicked superoxide dismutase (a ...
Jul 27, 2020
Researchers create neurotransmitter-lipid hybrids that help ferry therapeutic drugs and gene editing proteins across the blood-brain barrier in mice.
Jul 27, 2020
The study assessed how the guts of species could protect against the bioaccumulation and toxicological effects of engineered nanomaterials.
Jul 27, 2020
Nanoparticles appear to be tiny. They measure only 1/1000th of a millimeter, and hence cannot be seen with the naked eye. Although they are small, they are highly crucial in several ways.
Jul 27, 2020
The twist has been taking the field of condensed matter physics by storm. No, not the 1960s dance craze made famous by Chubby Checker— the stunning discovery that two sheets of graphene, a flat honeycomb-shaped lattice of carbon, could be stacked ...
Jul 27, 2020
Water molecules play an active role in facilitating the oxygen dissociation needed for the oxidation reaction.
Jul 27, 2020
Intermetallic alloys potentially have high strength in a high-temperature environment. But they generally suffer poor ductility at ambient and low temperatures, hence limiting their applications in aerospace and other engineering fields. Yet, a re...
Jul 27, 2020
Scientists demonstrate a synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy-based method by which the local temperatures of metal nanoparticles can be measured under microwaves.
Jul 27, 2020
