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A Profound Leap Forward: Pushing the Limits of 2D Supramolecules

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Scientists at the University of South Florida have reached a new milestone in the development of two-dimensional supramolecules – the building blocks that make areas... The post A Profound Leap Forward: Pushing the Limits of 2D Supramolecules app...

Apr 17, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Two is better than one: Scientists fit two co-catalysts on one nanosheet for better water purification

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A collaboration of scientists from the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)--a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory--Yale U...

Apr 17, 2020

MOF nanoparticles: Acidic alert

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Researchers have synthesized nanoparticles that can be induced by a change in pH to release a deadly dose of ionized iron within cells. This mechanism could potentially open up new approaches to the targeted elimination of malignant tumors.

Apr 17, 2020

New Easier-to-Breathe Mask Material Effectively Removes Virus-Size Nanoparticles

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Scientists around the world are scrambling to adapt their research to find solutions to the many problems raised by the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the world,... The post New Easier-to-Breathe Mask Material Effectively Removes Virus-Size Nanopartic...

Apr 17, 2020

New nanocarrier drug delivery technology crosses the blood-brain barrier

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A Japanese research team has developed a cyclic peptide (a chain of amino acids bonded circularly) that enhances blood-brain barrier (BBB) penetration. By attaching the cyclic peptide to the surface of nanoparticles, research and development of ne...

Apr 17, 2020

A robust, sensitive thin-film X-ray detector using 2-D layered perovskite diodes

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In a new report on Science Advances, Hsinhan Tsai and a research team in materials, nanotechnology, nuclear engineering and X-ray science at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Argonne National Laboratory in the U.S. demonstrated a new thin...

Apr 17, 2020

New nanocarrier drug delivery technology crosses the blood-brain barrier

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Researchers developed a cyclic peptide (a chain of amino acids bonded circularly) that enhances blood-brain barrier (BBB) penetration. By attaching the cyclic peptide to the surface of nanoparticles, research and development of new drug nanocarrie...

Apr 17, 2020

Flatter graphene, faster electrons: Technique flattens corrugations in graphene layers to improve samples

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The sample quality of graphene has been improved significantly since its discovery. One factor that limited further improvements has not been investigated directly so far, namely corrugations in the graphene sheet, i.e. microscopic distortions tha...

Apr 17, 2020

Nanosize Tin ‘Bubbles’ Could Provide Low-Cost Way to Generate EUV Light

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Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have generated low-cost extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light by creating tin thin-film spheres using a polymer electrolyte “soap bubble” as a template and irradiating it with a laser. When the sp...

Apr 17, 2020

Temperature can regulate wetting properties of sprayed latex surfaces

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A Swedish-German research team has been using DESY’s X-ray source PETRA III to investigate how surface coatings can be made to attract or repel water using tailor-made latex nanoparticles. Being able to influence the wettability of surfaces durin...

Apr 17, 2020

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