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Professor teaches tiny nanoparticles to prevent heart attacks

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An associate professor from Michigan State University has helped invent a potential treatment for coronary artery disease—a sub-microscopic scouring process he likens to "taking out the garbage."

Feb 12, 2020

Animal simulations and smart drug design: Nanomaterial transport to individual cells

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Bioengineers can design smart drugs for antibody and nanomaterial-based therapies to optimize drug efficiency for increasingly efficient, early-stage preclinical trials. The ideal drug will have maximum efficiency at target tissue sites for transp...

Feb 12, 2020

Small world: atom-scale materials are the next tech frontier

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

'Atomaterials' is short for 'atomic materials', so called because their properties depend on the precise configuration of their atoms.

Feb 12, 2020

Small world: atom-scale materials are the next tech frontier

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Every age in the history of human civilization has a signature material, from the Stone Age, to the Bronze and Iron Ages. We might even call today's information-driven society the Silicon Age.

Feb 12, 2020

New insights into superconducting processes

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The development of a quantum computer that can solve problems, which classical computers can only solve with great effort or not at all - this is the goal currently being pursued by an ever-growing number of research teams worldwide. The reason: ...

Feb 12, 2020

Graphene forms under microscope's eye

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Scientists record the formation of foamy laser-induced graphene made with a small laser mounted to a scanning electron microscope. The reduced size of the conductive material may make it more useful for flexible electronics.

Feb 12, 2020

New Argonne etching technique could advance the way semiconductor devices are made

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Researchers uncover a technique known as molecular layer etching which aid in building intricate 3D nanostructures for semiconductor devices and other microelectronics.

Feb 12, 2020

Discovery brings nanoscale thermal switches needed for next-gen computing

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Researchers working on an Army project developed nanoscale thermal switches that are key to thermal management of nanoscale devices, refrigeration, data storage, thermal computing and heat management of buildings.

Feb 12, 2020

Modified clay can remove herbicide from water

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By creating neatly spaced slits in a clay mineral, University of Groningen Professor of Experimental Solid State Physics Petra Rudolf was able to filter water to remove a toxic herbicide. After removing the pollutant by heating the material, the c...

Feb 12, 2020

X-ray microscopy at BESSY II: Nanoparticles can change cells

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Nanoparticles easily enter into cells. New insights about how they are distributed and what they do there are shown for the first time by high-resolution 3D microscopy images from BESSY II. For example, certain nanoparticles accumulate preferentia...

Feb 12, 2020

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