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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

The roughening of a platinum electrode

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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

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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

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

Jan 28, 2020

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