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Cellulose Nanofibers from Coffee Grounds Could be Used to Make Bioplastics

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Cellulose nanofibers derived from spent coffee grounds were carefully analyzed by scientists from Yokohama National University (YNU), who have identified them as a viable new source of raw material....

Apr 7, 2020

Kidneys could be ‘dump’ for inhaled cerium dioxide nanoparticles

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Two-year rat study fails to find evidence of threshold concentration in lungs

Apr 7, 2020

Personalized microrobots swim through biological barriers, deliver drugs to cells

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Biohybrid robots on the micrometer scale can swim through the body and deliver drugs to tumors or provide other cargo-carrying functions. To be successful, they must consist of materials that can pass through the body's immune response, swim ...

Apr 7, 2020

Nanoscale Device Generates High-Power THz Waves That Can See Through Walls

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Researchers at EPFL have developed a nanodevice that operates more than 10 times faster than today’s fastest transistors, and about 100 times faster than the... The post Nanoscale Device Generates High-Power THz Waves That Can See Through Walls a...

Apr 7, 2020

Atomic force microscopy reveals high heterogeneity in bacterial membrane vesicles

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One aspect of bacterial activity is the production of so-called extracellular membrane vesicles (MVs): biological 'packages' wrapped in a lipid-bilayer membrane, carrying for example genetic material. Apart from having specific biologica...

Apr 7, 2020

Machines sense and see in nanoseconds – Physics World

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Novel sensor array captures and computes optical signals at the same time, lowering delay caused by intermediate processing The post Machines sense and see in nanoseconds appeared first on Physics World.

Apr 7, 2020

New method to monitor Alzheimer's proteins

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Physicists at the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), have reported a new method to identify the aggregation state of amyloid beta (Aβ) proteins in solution. Published in ...

Apr 7, 2020

Researchers discover new method to generate nanobubbles in water

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Researchers at University College Dublin (UCD) have discovered a new energy-efficient method to generate and release substantial volumes of metastable, nano-scale gas bubbles in water, in excess of natural solubility levels. The discovery has the ...

Apr 7, 2020

Physicists produce stable water-based graphene dispersions

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Umeå researchers show how activated graphene, activated carbons and other hydrophobic carbons can be dispersed in water in a form of micrometer-sized particles. The key agent that helps to make these dispersions last for days is the oxidized form ...

Apr 7, 2020

Physicists produce stable water-based graphene dispersion

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers show how activated graphene, activated carbons and other hydrophobic carbons can be dispersed in water in a form of micrometer-sized particles. The key agent that helps to make these dispersions last for days is graphene oxide.

Apr 7, 2020

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