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Echa to prioritise substances of concern in REACH nanomaterial compliance checks

Chemical Watch   -   Scientific News Websites

Compliance checks will begin during 2020

Nov 7, 2019

Light-Based ‘Tractor Beam’ Generated for Nanoscale Assembly

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from the University of Washington (UW) have developed a method that could make reproducible manufacturing at the nanoscale possible. The team adapted an existing technique pioneered by Arthur Ashkin, optical tweezers, to operate in a...

Nov 7, 2019

Electrons passing over nanophotonic materials could create synchrotron-like light – Physics World

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Vacuum fluctuations cause free electrons to emit high-frequency light, calculations suggest The post Electrons passing over nanophotonic materials could create synchrotron-like light appeared first on Physics World.

Nov 7, 2019

Mycotoxin detection by graphene field-effect transistor

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The struggle for living space concerns not only people and animals but can refer also to molds. When mold (fungi) contaminated the food in case of bad environment for its development it states to produce second metabolites—mycotoxins—to prevent of...

Nov 7, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Picosun expands selection of biocompatible ALD materials for medical applications

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Picosun Group, the leading supplier of AGILE ALD® (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions for global industries, expands its selection of biocompatible ALD materials to be used in medica...

Nov 7, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Nanoparticle orientation offers a way to enhance drug delivery: Coating particles with 'right-handed' molecules could help them penetrate cancer cells more easily

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

MIT engineers have shown that they can enhance the performance of drug-delivery nanoparticles by controlling a trait of chemical structures known as chirality -- the "handedness" of the structure.

Nov 7, 2019

Nanoparticle swarms could deliver treatment to stroke patients

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Swarms of liposomes which are 15,000 times smaller than a pinhead may be able to deliver vital drugs to the brain, offering new hope to patients in the early stages of a stroke.

Nov 7, 2019

Established mass production technology for solid-solution alloy nanoparticles

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In the JST Strategic Basic Research Programs, Furuya Metal and Professor Hiroshi Kitagawa, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, have developed mass production technology that enables the continuous synthesis of several nm solid-solution a...

Nov 7, 2019

Mathematics at the speed of light

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AMOLF researchers and their collaborators from the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC/CUNY) in New York have created a nanostructured surface capable of performing on-the-fly mathematical operations on an input image. This discovery could boos...

Nov 7, 2019

Sensing magnetism in atomic resolution with just a scanning tunneling microscope

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Scientists from the University of Strasbourg, France, in close collaboration with colleagues from the research centers in San Sebastián, Spain, and Jülich, Germany, have achieved a breakthrough in detecting the magnetic moments of nanoscale struc...

Nov 7, 2019

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