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Unlocking PNA's superpowers for self-assembling nanostructures

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with gamma-modified peptide nucleic acid (γPNA), a synthetic mimic of DNA. The process has the potential to impact nanomanufacturing as well as fu...

Jun 12, 2020

Scientists Demonstrate 310-nm Nanolaser in VIS Range at Room Temperature

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

An international scientific team led by researchers at ITMO University demonstrated experimentally what it believes to be the world’s most compact semiconductor laser operating in the visible range at room temperature. The nanolaser produces green...

Jun 12, 2020

Physicists Have Reversed Time on The Smallest Scale Using a Quantum Computer

ScienceAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from Russia and the US teamed up to find a way to break, or at least bend, one of physics' most fundamental laws of energy.

Jun 12, 2020

Two-in-One Super Molecule for High-Density Computing

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

NUS Chemists have developed a new type of molecular computing device that acts both as a switch and storage element for nanoelectronic applications. The figure shows the molecular junction with...

Jun 12, 2020

New Nanoparticle-Based Metasurfaces for Future Camera Lenses

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In the future, camera lenses could be thousands of times thinner and significantly less resource-intensive to manufacture. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, now present a new technology for making the artificial materials...

Jun 12, 2020

New Single Graphene-Cube Cavity Acts as New Type of Nano-Antenna

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Miniaturization has enabled so many unfathomable dreams. Shrinking down electronic circuits has allowed us to access technology like smartphones, health watches, medical probes, nano-satellites,...

Jun 12, 2020

Two-in-one super molecule for high-density computing

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Chemists have developed a new type of molecular computing device that acts both as a switch and storage element for nanoelectronic applications.

Jun 12, 2020

Prodigiosin-based solution has selective activity against cancer cells

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Together with colleagues from the University of Palermo, KFU employees offer a nano preparation based on biocompatible halloysite nanotubes and bacterial pigment prodigiosin; the latter is known to selectively disrupt cancer cells without damaging...

Jun 12, 2020

Unlocking PNA's superpowers for self-assembling nanostructures

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with gamma-modified peptide nucleic acid, a synthetic mimic of DNA. The process has the potential to impact nanomanufacturing and future biomedica...

Jun 12, 2020

Minimizing thermal conductivity of crystalline material with optimal nanostructure

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Japanese researchers successfully minimized thermal conductivity by designing, fabricating, and evaluating the optimal nanostructure-multilayer materials through materials informatics (MI), which combines machine learning and molecular simulation.

Jun 12, 2020

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