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New research may contribute to a better diagnosis of cancer

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of researchers from the Institute of Materials Science at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania together with colleagues from Japan and Latvia came up with a method that forces over 300 million metal nanoparticles to self-assembl...

Oct 28, 2019

Development of mass production equipment for thin magnetic ribbon, minimizing energy-loss

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

JST announces that enterprise-led development of production equipment for ultra-low loss nano crystal ribbon, supported through the NexTEP-B type phase of the agency's "Adaptable and Seamless Technology Transfer Program through Target-dr...

Oct 28, 2019

Gold-DNA nanosunflowers for efficient gene silencing and controlled transformation

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Developing an efficient delivery system for enhanced and controlled gene interference-based therapeutics is an existing challenge in molecular biology. The advancing field of nanotechnology can provide an effective, cross-disciplinary strategy to ...

Oct 28, 2019

Small magnets reveal big secrets

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

An international research team has identified a microscopic process of electron spin dynamics in nanoparticles that could impact the design of applications in medicine, quantum computation, and spintronics.

Oct 28, 2019

Baby steps for transparent electronics

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A submicrometer-thin mesh of silver nanowires—that is transparent to light, highly electrically conductive, flexible and stretchable, and simple to make—has been developed by researchers at KAUST. The material could find use in flexible electronic...

Oct 28, 2019

Researchers: Unusually broad diffraction background marks high-quality graphene

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Producing structurally perfect graphene and other 2-D materials is the secret to tapping into their potential novel electronic and spintronic properties. But how do we know when graphene, the most widely studied 2-D material, is perfect— a defect-...

Oct 28, 2019

How do you know it's perfect graphene? The answer has been there all along

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have discovered an indicator that reliably demonstrates a sample's high quality, and it was one that was hiding in plain sight for decades.

Oct 28, 2019

Nebraska-led team to explore DNA as tool to build graphene circuits

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Graphene is a groundbreaking material in the nanotechnology field, but it has characteristics that limit its potential applications.

Oct 28, 2019

Monitoring the corrosion of bioresorbable magnesium

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

ETH researchers have recently been able to monitor the corrosion of bioresorbable magnesium alloys at the nanoscale over a time scale of a few seconds to many hours. This is an important step towards accurately predicting how fast implants are re...

Oct 28, 2019

Small magnets: Wide-ranging impact on information technology

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Physicists have identified a microscopic process of electron spin dynamics in nanoparticles that could impact the design of applications in medicine, quantum computation, and spintronics.

Oct 25, 2019

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