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House cleaning on the nanoscale

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of scientists at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has developed a novel mechanical cleaning method for surfaces on the nanoscale. The technique successfully removes even the tiniest contaminants down to the atomic sca...

Apr 8, 2020

New 'refrigerator' super-cools molecules to nanokelvin temperatures

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MIT physicists have found a way to cool molecules of sodium lithium down to 200 billionths of a Kelvin, just a hair above absolute zero. They did so by applying a technique called collisional cooling, in which they immersed molecules of cold sodiu...

Apr 8, 2020

Kiwi nanofibre producer raises $6m in funding

Innovation in Textiles   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Auckland-based Revolution Fibres has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round led by Movac, New Zealand’s most experienced technology investment firm ...

Apr 8, 2020

Novel Sticker Embedded with Nanofiber Film Helps Determine Food Spoilage

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

People cannot differentiate with their naked eye whether the cold-chain food products received by them have actually become spoiled. The change of the readability of the sticker attached with...

Apr 7, 2020

Nanotechnology Shows a Promising Treatment for Endometriosis

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

An accurate, nanotechnology-based treatment has been developed by researchers to mitigate the pain and fertility issues linked with endometriosis. Endometriosis is a common gynecological condition...

Apr 7, 2020

Cellulose Nanofibers from Coffee Grounds Could be Used to Make Bioplastics

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

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

Chemical Watch   -   Scientific News Websites

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

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

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

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

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

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

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

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