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Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: UTEP researchers develop nanohybrid vehicle to optimally deliver drugs into the human body

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Researchers in The University of Texas at El Paso's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have developed a nanohybrid vehicle that can be used to optimally deliver drugs into the human body.

Apr 24, 2020

SPIE Will Launch New Journal of Optical Microsystems; JM3 to Be Renamed

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SPIE has announced the launch of a new Gold Open Access journal, the Journal of Optical Microsystems (JOM), which starting in January will publish cutting-edge research of optical and photonic microsystems. Hans Zappe, co-editor-in-chief of SPIE’s...

Apr 24, 2020

Towards a nanomechanical quantum switchboard

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Physicists at Universität Regensburg have coupled the vibrations of a macromolecule—a carbon nanotube—to a microwave cavity, creating a novel and highly miniaturized optomechanical system. The team of Dr. Andreas K. Hüttel achieved this by using t...

Apr 24, 2020

Highly sensitive nanosensor detects subtle potassium changes in the brain

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Researchers have developed a number of potassium ion (K+) probes to detect fluctuating K+ concentrations during a variety of biological processes. However, such probes are not sensitive enough to detect physiological fluctuations in living animals...

Apr 24, 2020

Nanometer-Thick Electromagentic Shielding Film Developed Using MXene

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Uniform nanometer-thick MXene* films can be used as electromagnetic shields in flexible electronics and 5G telecommunication devices. A Korean research team has developed a technology... The post Nanometer-Thick Electromagentic Shielding Film Dev...

Apr 24, 2020

Researchers develop fused-ring electron acceptor with 3-D exciton and charge transport

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Recently, Professor Zhan Xiaowei's group from the College of Engineering at Peking University made progress in non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells (OSCs). They developed a new fluorinated fused-ring electron acceptor (FREA) with 3...

Apr 24, 2020

Team gains insights on the oxide layer of stainless steel

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In March, a team of Alfa Laval researchers and scientists from Lund University led by Axel Knutsson, Material Specialist at Alfa Laval, came to the MAXPEEM beamline for four-days beamtime. MAXPEEM, one of the soft X-ray beamlines in the 1.5 GeV st...

Apr 24, 2020

'Decoy' nanoparticles can block HIV and prevent infection

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Flipping the standard viral drug targeting approach on its head, engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a promising new "nanosponge" method for preventing HIV from proliferating in the body: coating polymer na...

Apr 24, 2020

Nanobiosensor can Help Diagnose Early-Stage Multiple Sclerosis

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Researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Sorocaba (state of São Paulo, Brazil) have developed a technique to diagnose early-stage multiple sclerosis, a disease of the...

Apr 24, 2020

'Decoy' nanoparticles can block HIV and prevent infection

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Cloaking nanoparticles in cell membranes draws HIV away from immune cells.

Apr 24, 2020

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