Researchers have developed an experimental vaccine that could prevent the spread of metastatic cancers to the lungs. The key ingredients of the vaccine are nanoparticles - fashioned from bacterial viruses - that have been engineered to target a pr...
Oct 18, 2023
U.S-based ONE Condoms has launched graphene-enhanced condoms, after nearly a decade of research and development.
Oct 18, 2023
Scientists developed a molecular energy harvesting device which can obtain energy from the natural movements of molecules in a liquid. Read the article to find out more.
Oct 18, 2023
Many efforts to reduce transmission of diseases like COVID-19 and the flu have focused on measures such as masking and isolation, but another useful approach is reducing the load of airborne pathogens through filtration or germicidal ultraviolet l...
Oct 17, 2023
In pursuit of a carbon-neutral society, advancement of the battery technology becomes imperative. Primary batteries, though non-rechargeable, hold promise as power sources for sensors and disaster scenarios because of their cost-effective producti...
Oct 17, 2023
Roman Engel-Herbert, Director of PDI, and Joao Marcelo J. Lopes, a Senior Scientist at PDI, were honored recently with an invitation to review the field of two-dimensional layered materials (2DLM) in a paper for ACS Nano titled "Recent Advanc...
Oct 17, 2023
Researchers tested a molecular energy harvesting device that captures the energy from the natural motion of molecules in a liquid. Their work showed molecular motion can be used to generate a stable electric current. To create the device, they sub...
Oct 17, 2023
Nanozymes are synthetic materials with features that resemble those of natural enzymes and are used in biomedical and chemical engineering. They are typically viewed as being too costly and hazardous to be used in agricultural and food research. N...
Oct 17, 2023
Recent studies have found that Gires-Tournois (GT) biosensors, a type of nanophotonic resonator, can detect minuscule virus particles and produce colorful micrographs (images taken through a microscope) of viral loads. But they suffer from visual ...
Oct 17, 2023
Formed by the coupling effect of contact electrification and electrostatic induction, triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) effectively convert the most widely distributed micro-nano energy in our environment, including human motion, breeze, vibrati...
Oct 17, 2023
