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Silica particles may lead to new treatments for obesity and diabetes

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Engineered ingestible molecular traps created from mesoporous silica particles (MSPs) introduced to the gut can have an effect on food efficiency and metabolic risk factors. The results from studies on mice, published in Nanomedicine, demonstrate ...

Jan 14, 2020

The most sensitive torque measuring device ever built

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A team of physicists at Purdue University has built the most sensitive torque measuring device ever. In their paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the team describes their new device and outline how it might be used.

Jan 14, 2020

New classes of topological crystalline insulators having surface rotation anomaly

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In a new report on Science Advances, Chen Fang and Liang Fu from the Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics in China, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences and the Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology i...

Jan 14, 2020

Silica particles may lead to new treatments for obesity and diabetes

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Engineered ingestible molecular traps created from mesoporous silica particles introduced to the gut can have an effect on food efficiency and metabolic risk factors. The results from studies on mice demonstrate the potential to reduce the energy ...

Jan 14, 2020

Most engineered nanoparticles enter tumours through cells, not between them

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Researchers from U of T Engineering have discovered that an active, rather than passive, process dictates which nanoparticles enter solid tumors. The finding upends previous thinking in the field of cancer nanomedicine and points toward more effec...

Jan 14, 2020

How to verify that quantum chips are computing correctly?

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In a step toward practical quantum computing, researchers from MIT, Google, and elsewhere have designed a system that

Jan 14, 2020

Most engineered nanoparticles enter tumours through cells, not between them

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Scientists have discovered that an active, rather than passive, process dictates which nanoparticles enter solid tumours. The finding upends previous thinking in the field of cancer nanomedicine and points toward more effective nanotherapies.

Jan 14, 2020

Nano-objects of Desire: Assembling Ordered Nanostructures in 3-D

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Using shape-programmable DNA frames, scientists established a new nanofabrication platform for directing nanomaterial components of different natures (inorganic

Jan 14, 2020

Surface acoustic waves in graphene: straintronics with nanoquakes

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Researchers have modulated the properties of graphene locally and dynamically by means of a surface acoustic wave, a kind of earthquake on a chip.

Jan 14, 2020

Generation and manipulation of spin currents for advanced electronic devices

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ICN2 researchers, in the framework of the Graphene Flagship, at the UAB campus, demonstrate that spin currents can be generated and manipulated in graphene-based heterostructures at room temperature. The results of this study, published in Nature ...

Jan 14, 2020

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