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The roughening of a platinum electrode

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Smooth platinum electrodes roughen and wear when subjected to repeated cycles of oxidation and reduction, which causes nanometer scale mounds to grow. Leiden chemists Leon Jacobse and Mark Koper, together with physicist Marcel Rost, discovered the...

Jan 28, 2020

Putting a nanomachine to work

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A team of chemists 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

Beating the heat in the living wings of butterflies

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Engineers and biologists discover that butterflies have specialized behaviors and wing scales to protect the living parts of their wings. The nanostructures found in the wing scales could inspire the design of radiative-cooling materials to help m...

Jan 28, 2020

New magnetic interaction discovered

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The discovery is not only important for basic research in physics, but the scientists also expect it to be beneficial in technical innovations. As an example, the interaction could help create special nanoscale magnetic structures.

Jan 28, 2020

Book review: Nano comes to life by Sonia Contera

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

NuNano’s marketing lead, Rebecca Megson-Smith, is our resident bookworm.

Jan 28, 2020

A megalibrary of nanoparticles

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Using straightforward chemistry and a mix-and-match, modular strategy, researchers have developed a simple approach that could produce over 65,000 different types of complex nanoparticles, each containing up to six different materials and eight s...

Jan 28, 2020

Atomic layer 3D printing

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A team of scientists and engineers plan to combine expertise in the chemical control of atomic layer deposition, in gas delivery, microelectromechanical devices, and microprocessing and automation, in order to demonstrate the potential of atomic-l...

Jan 28, 2020

Nanoparticle chomps away plaques that cause heart attacks

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Michigan State University and Stanford University scientists have invented a nanoparticle that eats away—from the inside out—portions of plaques that cause heart attacks.

Jan 28, 2020

Iron nanorobots show their true mettle

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Multifunctional iron nanowires selectively obliterate cancer cells with a triple-punch combination attack.

Jan 28, 2020

Beating the heat in the living wings of butterflies

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Columbia engineers and Harvard biologists discover that butterflies have specialized behaviors and wing scales to protect the living parts of their wings. The nanostructures found in the wing scales could inspire the design of radiative-cooling ma...

Jan 28, 2020

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