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Crumpled graphene makes ultra-sensitive cancer DNA detector

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Graphene-based biosensors could usher in an era of liquid biopsy, detecting DNA cancer markers circulating in a patient’s

Mar 24, 2020

Upconverting nanolasers from subwavelength plasmons

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

To design these nanolasers, researchers combined arrays of nanopillars with nanoparticles that can absorb two photons of light and emit them as a single photon with higher energy.

Mar 24, 2020

Catalyst Zeolite Nanopores Discovery May Lead to New Materials for Clean Energy and Carbon Capture

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

UMass Amherst researchers discover new building blocks of catalyst zeolite nanopores. Zeolites crystals, used among other things for refining petroleum to gasoline and biomass into... The post Catalyst Zeolite Nanopores Discovery May Lead to New M...

Mar 24, 2020

A genetic nano-toolkit for the generation of new bacterial magnetic nanoparticles

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have developed a modular system for the genetic reprogramming of bacteria, thereby turning the organisms into cell factories for multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles that combine various useful functions and properties. Because of the...

Mar 24, 2020

Graphite Nanoplatelets can Prevent Infections

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

According to a study performed by Sweden-based Chalmers University of Technology and published in the Small journal, graphite nanoplatelets embedded in plastic medical surfaces can prevent infections...

Mar 24, 2020

Here’s a Blueprint for a Practical Quantum Computer

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Constructing a universal quantum computer will be hard but not impossible


Mar 24, 2020

A new dimension for promoting electrocatalysis performance by noble metal aerogels

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Chemists have succeeded in fabricating surface-clean noble metal aerogels boosting the electrocatalysis performance by revisiting ligand chemistry.

Mar 24, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: A pigment from ancient Egypt to modern microscopy: G�ttingen research team produces new nanosheets for near infrared imaging

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Egyptian blue is one of the oldest manmade colour pigments. It adorns, for instance, the crown of the world famous bust of Nefertiti. But the pigment can do even more. An international research team l...

Mar 24, 2020

Global carbon capture potential for rare nanoparticle

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Australia is on the cusp of commercializing a rare nanoparticle with huge global potential to help capture carbon and water pollutants.

Mar 24, 2020

Scientists develop platform for building nanoelectronics and quantum processors

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU, Vladivostok, Russia) together with colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing) have designed a platinum-cobalt-magnesium oxide microstructure coated by platinum that is capable of o...

Mar 24, 2020

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