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Flexible, transparent and cost-effective lasers

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have produced novel transparent, all-polymer DBF lasers. The DBF lasers make use of the periodic wavelength-scale nanostructures to backscatter photons for constructive interference.

Oct 23, 2019

Stardust machine shows presence of carbon nanograins, molecular compounds but few aromatics

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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Spain and one in France has built what they call their Stardust machine—a device that mimics the activity around a red giant where real stardust forms. In their paper published in the j...

Oct 23, 2019

Monitoring the corrosion of bioresorbable magnesium

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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 res...

Oct 23, 2019

Super-strong magnetic supercrystals can assemble themselves

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Materials scientists who work with nano-sized components have developed ways of working with their vanishingly small materials. But what if you could get your components to assemble themselves into different structures without actually handling th...

Oct 23, 2019

Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers

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Researchers have captured the visible nanostructure of living wood for the first time using an advanced low-temperature scanning electron microscope.

Oct 23, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: New drug-delivery technology promises efficient, targeted cancer treatment

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A precise and non-toxic treatment that targets lung cancer cells at the nanoscale is able to effectively kill the cells even at a low dose.

Oct 23, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Pinpointing biomolecules with nanometer accuracy

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Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) demonstrate a new approach in fluorescence microscopy that can be used to locate individual biomolecules in 3D space with nanometer-scale preci...

Oct 23, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: How perovskite in solar cells recrystallizes and why modified carbon nanotubes can help overcome the reproducibility problem by making use of this

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Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) conducted an in-depth study on how carbon nanotubes with oxygen-containing groups can be used to greatly enhance the performance of perovskite...

Oct 23, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Novel nanoprobes show promise for optical monitoring of neural activity: New approach for studying neural circuits offers advantages over both microelectrodes and fluorescence-based optical techniques that require genetic modifications

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Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed ultrasensitive nanoscale optical probes to monitor the bioelectric activity of neurons and other excitable cells. This novel readout technology could enable...

Oct 23, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Nanoparticles may have bigger impact on the environment than previously thought: Non-antibacterial nanoparticles can cause resistance in bacteria

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Over the last two decades, nanotechnology has improved many everyday products, from microelectronics to sunscreens. Nanoparticles (particles just a few hundred atoms in size) are ending up in the envi...

Oct 23, 2019

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