According to Penn State scientists, a special nanoparticle used to provide a localized cancer treatment suppresses the growth of tumors. A team of Penn State researchers is collaborating on a...
Jul 8, 2020
According to the United Nations, about one-fifth of the world's population lives in areas where water is scarce. Therefore, technologies to produce clean water from undrinkable sources, such as seawater, river or lake water, and contaminated ...
Jul 8, 2020
Two researchers from Johns Hopkins University—an ophthalmologist and an engineer—have successfully used nanoparticles to deliver gene therapy for blinding eye disease. They achieved this...
Jul 8, 2020
Graphene consists of a single layer of carbon atoms. Exceptional electronic, thermal, mechanical, and optical properties have made graphene one of the most studied materials at the moment. For many applications in electronics and energy technology...
Jul 8, 2020
Researchers have developed a wood-based steam generator that, with the help of bacterial-produced nanomaterials, harnesses solar energy to purify water.
Jul 8, 2020
Researchers at ARCNL have found a way to detect nanostructures buried under many layers of opaque material using high-frequency sound waves induced by light. Their findings could have applications in the semiconductor manufacturing industry, such ...
Jul 8, 2020
Researchers have found a way to detect nanostructures buried under many layers of opaque material, using very high frequency sound waves induced by light. Their findings are promising in view of applications in the semiconductor manufacturing indu...
Jul 8, 2020
For many applications in electronics and energy technology, graphene must be combined with other materials: Since graphene is so thin, its properties drastically change when other materials are brought into direct contact with it.
Jul 8, 2020
With high-resolution microscopy, it is theoretically possible to image cell structures with a resolution of a few nanometres. However, this has not yet been possible in practice. The reason for this...
Jul 8, 2020
If you stack two layers of graphene one on top of the other, and rotate them at an angle of 1.1º (no more and no less) from each other - the so-called magic-angle, experiments have proven that...
Jul 8, 2020
