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Off the scales: Fish armor both tough and flexible

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Humans have drawn technological inspiration from fish scales going back to ancient times: Romans, Egyptians, and other civilizations would dress their warriors in scale armor, providing both protection and mobility. Now, using advanced X-ray imagi...

Jun 18, 2020

Nanofiber masks can be sterilized multiple times without filter performance deterioration

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

With the global spread of coronavirus infections, personal protective equipment, especially face masks, are receiving much attention. Masks are essential items for the primary protection of the respiratory tract from viruses and bacteria that are ...

Jun 17, 2020

How Toxoplasma parasites glide so swiftly

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

If you're a cat owner, you might have heard of Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan that sometimes infects humans through contact with contaminated feces in litterboxes. Although harmless to most people, T. gondii can cause serious illness or death...

Jun 17, 2020

Can metallic metasurfaces be used for terahertz nanofilm sensing?

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have proposed a toroidal dipole (TD) bound states in the continuum (BIC) inspired Fano resonance metasurface, exhibiting both TD and BIC feature in the same structure.

Jun 17, 2020

New Biomimetic Nanosponges Could Soak Up SARS-CoV-2, Treating COVID-19

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanoparticles cloaked in human lung cell membranes and human immune cell membranes can attract and neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 virus in cell culture, causing the virus... The post New Biomimetic Nanosponges Could Soak Up SARS-CoV-2, Treating COVID-...

Jun 17, 2020

Julia (Rosolovsky) Greer ’97

MIT Technology Review   -   Scientific News Websites

Julia (Rosolovsky) Greer ’97 is a scientist and a classical pianist. Her nanotechnology research breaks new ground, and her music lifts people up. Fittingly, Fast Company named her one of its “Most Creative People” in 2014; CNN named her a “2020 V...

Jun 17, 2020

Echa delays guidance updates on REACH nano registrations

Chemical Watch   -   Scientific News Websites

Absence of available test methods acknowledged as significant obstacle

Jun 17, 2020

First Quantum Phase “Supercurrent” Battery Ever Developed

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

The first quantum phase battery has been realized. It consist of an indium arsenide (InAs) nanowire in contact with aluminum superconducting leads and is a... The post First Quantum Phase “Supercurrent” Battery Ever Developed appeared first on Sc...

Jun 17, 2020

Support drives fate of protected gold nanoclusters as catalysts

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

In collaboration with experimentalists from Ghent University, Belgium and Utrecht University, Netherlands, researchers at the Nanoscience Center (NSC) at the University of Jyväskylä, have recently discovered that the choice of a support material ...

Jun 17, 2020

LEGO construction of nanoparticle assemblies

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Designing new levels of complex architectures using DNA strands and nanoparticles.

Jun 17, 2020

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