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Novel Technology to Trap Multiplexed Submicron Particles Within Nanocavities

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The fusion of fluid mechanics and acoustics is known as acoustofluidics, which offers a contact-free, quick, and effective handling of fluids and suspended particles. Massively multiplexed submicron...

May 20, 2020

Nanobowls serve up chemotherapy drugs to cancer cells

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

For decades, scientists have explored the use of liposomes—hollow spheres made of lipid bilayers—to deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumor cells. But drugs can sometimes leak out of liposomes before they reach their destination, reducing the dose rec...

May 20, 2020

Nanobowls serve up chemotherapy drugs to cancer cells

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers report a way to stabilize liposomes by embedding a stiff nanobowl in their inner cavity.

May 20, 2020

3D-Patterned Nanocellulose Could Lead to Advanced Optical, Thermal Devices

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

At The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research of Osaka University, a team of researchers has devised a new liquid-phase fabrication method for synthesizing nanocellulose films with multiple...

May 20, 2020

Superconductors with ‘zeitgeist’ – when materials differentiate between the past and the future

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Physicists at TU Dresden have discovered spontaneous static magnetic fields with broken time-reversal symmetry in a class of iron-based superconductors. This exceptional property calls for new theoretical models and may become important in quantu...

May 20, 2020

One-step synthesis of new nanomaterials with higher anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The goal of a new project is to use green, environmentally friendly, one-step synthesis routes of new silver-nanoparticle-based nanomaterials with anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity.

May 20, 2020

Scientists use light to accelerate supercurrents, access forbidden light, quantum world

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists are using light waves to accelerate supercurrents and access the unique properties of the quantum world, including forbidden light emissions that one day could be applied to high-speed, quantum computers, communications and other techno...

May 20, 2020

One Atom Thick Graphene Light Sail Could Speed Journey to Other Star Systems

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

A tiny sail made of the thinnest material known – one carbon-atom-thick graphene – has passed initial tests designed to show that it could be... The post One Atom Thick Graphene Light Sail Could Speed Journey to Other Star Systems appeared first ...

May 20, 2020

Are Nanomaterials Getting Under Your Skin?

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The study, commissioned by the EU Observatory for Nanomaterials (EUON), found that the lack of standardised, validated methods and the use of varying testing protocols makes it difficult to compare...

May 20, 2020

Quantum leap: Photon discovery is a major step toward at-scale quantum technologies

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A team of physicists at the University of Bristol has developed the first integrated photon source with the potential to deliver large-scale quantum photonics. The development of quantum technologies promises to have a profound impact across scien...

May 20, 2020

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