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Study brings researchers one step closer to produce and blend medicines on a microscopic scale

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

For the first time, a single, twisted nanoparticle has been accurately measured and characterised in a lab, taking scientists one vital step closer to a time when medicines will be produced and blended on a microscopic scale.

Jul 20, 2020

How to teach gold nanoclusters to tell left from right

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Some molecules exist in two different configurations, one being the mirror image of the other, with right and left side reversed. Normally, it is extremely difficult to produce only one of these two variants. Specially treated gold clusters are no...

Jul 20, 2020

New nano drug candidate kills aggressive breast cancer cells

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have developed a new drug candidate that kills triple negative breast cancer cells. The discovery will help clinicians target breast cancer cells directly, while avoiding the adverse, toxic side effects of chemotherapy.

Jul 20, 2020

A plot twist in pharmaceuticals: Single nanoparticles could pave the way for medicines on demand

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

For the first time, a single, twisted nanoparticle has been accurately measured and characterized in a lab, taking scientists one vital step closer to a time when medicines will be produced and blended on a microscopic scale.

Jul 20, 2020

High-performance large area electrode system developed for artificial photosynthesis

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Coral-type, high-efficiency, silver nano catalyst electrode developed for large areas; basis established for the commercialization of an electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion system that uses carbon dioxide in a gaseous state.

Jul 20, 2020

Stimulating neurons with magnetic nanodiscs

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Magnetic nanodiscs can be activated by an external magnetic field, providing a research tool for studying neural responses.

Jul 20, 2020

A new study unveils the mechanism of the nanoparticle gelation transition

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In a major breakthrough published in Nature Communications, the universal laws which govern the formation of nanostructured materials have been unveiled. Researchers led by Prof. Alessio Zaccone at University of Milan and by Prof. Peter Schall at ...

Jul 20, 2020

Scientists Develop Novel Ternary Nanocomposites by Electrostatic Spinning Technology

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In a paper published in NANO, a group of researchers from Jiangsu University of Technology, China have developed novel Cu2O-Mn3O4-NiO ternary nanocomposites by electrostatic spinning technology, which...

Jul 20, 2020

New Technology Could Enhance Therapeutic Efficiency of Nanomedicines

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and their colleagues from Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian...

Jul 20, 2020

Self-emitted surface corrugations in dynamic fracture of silicon single crystal

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

When a dynamic crack propagates through material heterogeneities (material differences), elastic waves are emitted to disturb the crack and change the morphology of the fracture surface. When a crack propagates along preferential cleavage planes o...

Jul 20, 2020

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