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Nature-Inspired Nanotech Helps Create Ultra-High-Definition Displays

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Taking inspiration from nature's nanotech that creates the stunning color of butterfly wings, a University of Central Florida researcher is creating technology to make extremely low-power,...

Jun 5, 2020

Study Offers Information on Molecular Basis for Using Nanoparticles in Medicine

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Nanotechnology has contributed a great deal to the field of medical science. It has enabled researchers to design tools to deliver drugs to specific targets in a living organism. Smart drug delivery...

Jun 5, 2020

Filling the knowledge gap about the thermal properties of bismuth antimonide at the nanoscale

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Bismuth antimonide (BiSb) is an important material in nanoelectronics as a topological insulator and as a thermoelectric material. However, some of its thermal properties are still mostly unknown at the nanoscale. This is an issue because in order...

Jun 5, 2020

New discovery advances optical microscopy

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

New Illinois ECE research is advancing the field of optical microscopy, giving the field a critical new tool to solve challenging problems across many fields of science and engineering including semiconductor wafer inspection, nanoparticle sensing...

Jun 5, 2020

UTEP researchers help bring biofriendly materials to drug design for neuro disorders

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

The contributions of researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso have yielded the first indication that carbon quantum dots, a class of nanoparticles, can be utilized to combat neurological disorders, according to a paper published in the ...

Jun 5, 2020

First measurement of electron energy distributions, could enable sustainable energy technologies

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

To answer a question crucial to technologies such as energy conversion, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan, Purdue University and the University of Liverpool in the UK have figured out a way to measure how many 'hot charge ca...

Jun 5, 2020

Self-assembling, biomimetic composites possess unusual electrical properties

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Sometimes, breaking rules is not a bad thing. Especially when the rules are apparent laws of nature that apply in bulk material, but other forces appear in the nanoscale.

Jun 4, 2020

Current advances in nanoparticles and their role as anticancer drug-delivery vectors

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanotechnology has contributed a great deal to the field of medical science. It has enabled researchers to design tools to deliver drugs to specific targets in a living organism.

Jun 4, 2020

Scientists aim to develop a gene-targeting, antiviral agent against COVID-19

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of scientists from Stanford University is working with researchers at the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscience user facility located at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), to develop a gene-targ...

Jun 4, 2020

Quantum Dots Shift Sunlight's Spectrum to Speed Plant Growth

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Quantum dots, the nanoparticles that improve color reproduction in TV displays, are migrating from the TV to the farm

Jun 4, 2020

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