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Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: SUNY Poly Professor Partners with Leading Institutions on NSF Award for Quantum Information Science Research: SUNY Poly Research Builds Upon Recent Quantum-related Research Initiatives and Workshops

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SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) Assistant Professor of Nanoengineering Dr. Spyros Gallis (Spyridon Galis) is part of a collaborative cross-institutional research team led by Stony Brook Univers...

Jan 28, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Extraction of lithium from its largest source, i.e. seawater, by nanostructured membranes

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It is predicted that the supply of the energy-critical element of Lithium will soon become less than its continuously increasing demand, which will make Lithium a strategically influential element. Th...

Jan 28, 2020

Tiny magnetic structures enhance medical science

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Small magnetic objects, which have been used successfully in technological applications such as data storage, are showing promise in the biomedical field. Magnetic nanostructures have interesting properties that enhance novel applications in medic...

Jan 28, 2020

Book Review: Nano Comes to Life by Sonia Contera

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NuNano’s marketing lead, Rebecca Megson-Smith, is our resident bookworm. A literature graduate with a background in writing and publishing she jumped on the chance to get her hands on Sonia...

Jan 28, 2020

Portable Biosensor Uses Light at Nanoscale to Detect Sepsis in Minutes

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Time is critical when diagnosing sepsis, but the tests currently used to identify this disease can take up to 72 hours. Researchers at the Laboratory of Bionanophotonic Systems (BIOS) at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have develop...

Jan 28, 2020

Iron nanorobots show their true mettle

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Drug-coated iron nanowires that can be guided to the site of a tumor using an external magnetic field before activating a three-step cancer-killing mechanism could provide an effective option for cancer therapy.

Jan 28, 2020

Nanostructures and Living Cells in Butterfly Wings Could Inspire Radiative-Cooling Materials & Advanced Flying Machines

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Researchers discover that butterflies have specialized behaviors and wing scales to protect the living parts of their wings; nanostructures found in the wing scales could... The post Nanostructures and Living Cells in Butterfly Wings Could Inspir...

Jan 28, 2020

Putting a nanomachine to work

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A team of chemists at LMU 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 synthetic nanomachines.

Jan 28, 2020

Chemist creates cheap catalysts for the production of vanillin

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A chemist from RUDN University has created cheap and effective catalysts for the production of vanillin using spinel nanoparticles with copper oxide nanoparticles. Hydrogen peroxide was used as an oxidizing agent. The method allows the use of mode...

Jan 28, 2020

Nanoscopy through a plasmonic nanolens

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Imaging at the scale of a single molecule has gained much recent research interest in diverse fields of molecular biology, physics and nanotechnology. Researchers have used super-resolution microscopy to access subdiffraction resolution, but the t...

Jan 28, 2020

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