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Researchers develop experimental rapid COVID-19 test using nanoparticle technique: Advanced nanotechnology provides 'naked eye' visual detection of virus in 10 minutes

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Scientists have developed an experimental diagnostic test for COVID-19 that can visually detect the presence of the virus in 10 minutes. It uses a simple assay containing plasmonic gold nanoparticles to detect a color change when the virus is pres...

May 29, 2020

Researchers develop experimental rapid COVID-19 test using nanoparticle technique

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) developed an experimental diagnostic test for COVID-19 that can visually detect the presence of the virus in 10 minutes. It uses a simple assay containing plasmonic gold nanopar...

May 29, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Smart sponge could clean up oil spills: Highly porous sponge selectively soaks up oil, sparing water and wildlife

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Sponge can absorb more than 30 times its weight in oil and be reused up to several dozen times Secret lies in its oleophilic, hydrophobic, magnetic (OHM) nanocomposite coating Process can turn an...

May 29, 2020

Researchers develop experimental rapid COVID-19 test using nanoparticle technique

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Advanced nanotechnology provides 'naked eye' visual detection of virus in 10 minutes.

May 29, 2020

Active material created out of microscopic spinning particles

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Researchers have created a new kind of self-healing active material out of 'microspinners,' which self-assemble under a magnetic field to form a lattice.

May 29, 2020

Nanoscope Received NIH Support to Advance Ultrafast Laser-Based Gene Delivery to the Retina

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The Nanoscope team has developed Multi-Characteristic Opsins (MCOs) to sensitize cells toward low level of white light so that vision is improved at ambient room light.

May 29, 2020

Extending nucleic acid memory (NAM)

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Humanity is creating huge amounts of data every day, billions of emails and social media updates, new websites, documents, images, and scientific and commercial big data amounting to petabytes of storage needs and beyond. It is well recognised tha...

May 29, 2020

Researchers develop experimental rapid COVID-19 test using nanoparticle technique

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) developed an experimental diagnostic test for COVID-19 that can visually detect the presence of the virus in 10 minutes. It uses a simple assay containing plasmonic gold nanopar...

May 29, 2020

Euon recommends ex vivo skin methods for nanosafety testing

Chemical Watch   -   Scientific News Websites

Review says absorption studies should use human or pig tissue

May 28, 2020

Nanopatterning electronic properties of twisted 2D semiconductors

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have demonstrated that atomic lattices of slightly twisted 2D transition metal dichalcogenides undergo extensive lattice reconstruction, which can pattern their optoelectronic properties on nanometre length scale.

May 28, 2020

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