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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.

Jan 30, 2020

A Breakthrough in Molding Materials at the Nanoscale

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In recent years, researchers have made advances in molding metals and alloys at the nanoscale level. But the

Jan 30, 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. Molecular motors are chemic...

Jan 30, 2020

3D-printed aerogel electrodes boost energy storage

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A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and collaborators from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and Sun Yat-Sen University have

Jan 30, 2020

A quantum of solid

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Researchers in Austria use lasers to levitate and cool a glass nanoparticle into the quantum regime. Although it is trapped in a room temperature environment, the particle's motion is solely governed by the laws of quantum physics. The team o...

Jan 30, 2020

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

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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

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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

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