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Nanostimulators boost stem cells for muscle repair

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In regenerative medicine, an ideal treatment for patients whose muscles are damaged from lack of oxygen would be to invigorate them with an injection of their own stem cells.Illinois researchers demonstrated that 'nanostimulators' - -nan...

May 1, 2020

Twisting 2D materials uncovers their superpowers

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Researchers can now grow twistronic material at sizes large enough to be useful. While an exciting potential area of nanotechnology, twistronics until now has mostly been explored on samples smaller than human hairs. Now a collaboration led by a g...

May 1, 2020

Sustainable structural material for plastic substitute

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A team lead by Prof. Shu-Hong Yu from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) report a high-performance sustainable structural material called cellulose nanofiber plate (CNFP) which is constructed from bio-based CNF and ready to r...

May 1, 2020

Researchers Propose New Approach to Improve Efficiency of Nanomaterials' Modeling

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Researchers from Higher School of Theoretical Mechanics of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) and Tel Aviv University proposed a new approach to improve the efficiency of...

Apr 30, 2020

New Nanoparticle-Based Imaging Technique Captures Mechanical Properties of Living Cells

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A first-of-its-kind nanoparticle-based in vivo imaging technique that may one day be used to help diagnose and even treat cancer has been developed by researchers collaborating from Michigan State,...

Apr 30, 2020

Nanodevices for the brain could thwart formation of Alzheimer's plaques

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Researchers designed a nanodevice with the potential to prevent peptides from forming dangerous plaques in the brain in order to halt development of Alzheimer's disease.

Apr 30, 2020

First-of-its-kind demonstration unlocks further discovery for quantum technologies

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Hidden within countless materials are valuable properties that will enable the next generation of technologies, like quantum computing and improved solar cells.

Apr 30, 2020

Machine learning enhances light-matter interactions in dielectric nanostructures

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A new discovery has promising possibilities for the development of a wide range of photonic devices and applications including those involved in optical sensing, optoacoustic vibrations, and narrowband filtering.

Apr 30, 2020

Better understanding of nature's nanomachines may help in design of future drugs

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Many of the drugs and medicines that we rely on today are natural products taken from microbes like bacteria and fungi. Within these microbes, the drugs are made by tiny natural machines known as nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs). A researc...

Apr 30, 2020

Supercurrent -- a current flowing without energy loss -- detected at edge of a superconductor with topological twist

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The existence of superconducting currents, or supercurrents, along the exterior of a superconductor, has been surprisingly hard to find. Now, researchers have discovered these edge supercurrents in a material that is both a superconductor and a to...

Apr 30, 2020

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