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Nanotechnology: Putting a nanomachine to work

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A team of chemists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich has successfully coupled the directed motion of a light-activated molecular motor to a different chemical unit -- thus taking an important step toward the realization of synthet...

Jan 30, 2020

Drug-Coated Iron Nanowires Developed to Selectively Kill Tumor Cells

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Iron nanowires coated with drugs can offer a better option for cancer therapy as they can be steered to the tumor site by an external magnetic field, before starting a three-step cancer-killing...

Jan 29, 2020

Nanoparticle Trojan horse approach to clearing atherosclerotic plaques

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Researchers from Michigan State University and Stanford University have designed special nanoparticles which could break down an atherosclerotic plaque from within. This could prevent heart attacks say researchers. The study titled, “Pro-efferocyt...

Jan 29, 2020

Visual Scanning of the Chemical Structure of Single Molecules at Angstrom Resolution | NextBigFuture.com

NextBigFuture   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanocavity plasmonic fields can create Raman images of molecular vibration for a visual system that can map the chemical structure of single-molecule. This visual system has 0.1 nanometer (an angstrom) resolution. They merge the images at several ...

Jan 29, 2020

Coupled quantum dots may offer a new way to store quantum information

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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum dots—tiny islands of confined electric charge that act like interacting artificial ato...

Jan 29, 2020

Cheap nanoparticles stimulate immune response to cancer in the lab

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University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed nanoparticles that, in the lab, can activate immune responses to cancer cells. If they are shown to work as well in the body as they do in the lab, the nanoparticles might provide an effec...

Jan 29, 2020

What a pair! Coupled quantum dots may offer a new way to store quantum information

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum dots -- tiny islands of confined electric charge that act like interacting artificial atoms. Such ''coupled'' quantum dots could serve as a robust q...

Jan 29, 2020

New Metahologram Design Created

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

A multifunctional meta-hologram design, developed by researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), can be used to create different hologram images depending on the direction of the incident light that falls on the device. C...

Jan 29, 2020

Coupled quantum dots may offer a new way to store quantum information

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum dots -- tiny islands of confined electric charge that act like interacting artificial atoms. Such 'coupled' quantum dots could serve as a robust quantum bit, ...

Jan 29, 2020

Cheap nanoparticles stimulate immune response to cancer in the lab

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have developed nanoparticles that, in the lab, can activate immune responses to cancer cells. If they are shown to work as well in the body as they do in the lab, the nanoparticles might provide an effective and more affordable way to ...

Jan 29, 2020

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