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Better wastewater treatment? It's a wrap

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A shield of graphene helps particles destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and free-floating antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants.

Jul 21, 2020

Novel nanofoam catalyst boosts hydrogen evolution reaction

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Study opens up a new prospect of tailoring the catalytic performance of MoS2 toward large-scale HER applications through confining multi-elements in different atomic layers.

Jul 21, 2020

Through the nanoscale looking glass - determining boson peak frequency in ultra-thin alumina

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

'Mysterious' vibrational properties of nanoscale glasses have been studied by subjecting novel (and slightly explosive) particles of aluminium wrapped in a thin alumina skin to neutron spectroscopy measurement.

Jul 21, 2020

Silver-plated gold nanostars detect early cancer biomarkers

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have engineered a method for simultaneously detecting the presence of multiple specific microRNAs in RNA extracted from tissue samples without the need for labeling or target amplification. The technique cou...

Jul 21, 2020

Skin cancer treatments could be used to treat other forms of the disease

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

The creation of a silica nanocapsule could allow treatments that use light to destroy cancerous or precancerous cells in the skin to also be used to treat other types of cancer. Such are the findings of a study by INRS (Institut national de la rec...

Jul 21, 2020

Working on the frontier of nanoparticle research

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

The Computer-Aided Nano and Energy Lab (CANELa) at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering is advancing the field of nanoparticle research, modeling metal nanoclusters that are atomically precise in structure. An article ...

Jul 21, 2020

Thermal manipulation of plasmons in atomically thin films

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Nanoscale photothermal effects can induce substantial changes in the optical response experienced by the probing light, thus suggesting their applications in all-optical light modulation. By exploiting nanosystems composed of graphene or ultrathin...

Jul 21, 2020

Valley-Hall nanoscale lasers

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Topological photonics allows the creation of new states of light. Miniaturization of topological states to the nanoscale offers new opportunities for controlling light in integrated nanophotonic circuits. Recently, a team of researchers demonstrat...

Jul 21, 2020

COVID-19 vaccine displays protective traits in nonhuman primates

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

A replicating RNA vaccine, formulated with a lipid-based nanoparticle emulsion that goes by the acronym LION, produces antibodies against the COVID-19 coronavirus in mice and primates with a single immunization. These antibodies potently neutraliz...

Jul 20, 2020

'Smart nanosheets' can help quickly isolate new types of proteins from mixtures

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An interdisciplinary team from Frankfurt and Jena has developed a kind of bait with which to fish protein complexes out of mixtures.

Jul 20, 2020

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