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Finding the 'magic angle' to create a new superconductor

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have made a discovery that could provide new insights into how superconductors might move energy more efficiently to power homes, industries and vehicles. Their work showed that graphene -- a material composed of a single layer of carb...

Oct 2, 2019

Finding the 'magic angle' in bilayer graphene to create a new superconductor

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Study suggests potential role for graphene in moving electricity.

Oct 2, 2019

Scientists improve pancreatic cancer diagnosis with multifunctional platinum nanoreactor

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have developed a multifunctional platinum nanoreactor geared towards point-of-care metabolic analysis that performs visual detection and mass spectrometry fingerprinting simultaneously.

Oct 2, 2019

Scientists improve pancreatic cancer diagnosis with multifunctional platinum nanoreactor

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Metabolic analysis involves ongoing biological pathways and can be more distal than proteomic/genomic approaches to in vitro diagnostics (IVD). However, point-of-care (POC) metabolic analysis needs special designed materials to detect target bioma...

Oct 2, 2019

Structural color printing of 3-D microscale objects by shrinking photonic crystals

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In a report recently published in Nature Communications, a research group led by Associate Professor Joel Yang from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) printed probably the smallest colorful 3-D model of the Eiffel Tower. Impr...

Oct 2, 2019

Converting CO2 into Valuable Resources Using Nanoparticles

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

New research has demonstrated that nanoparticles can be used to generate valuable raw materials from carbon dioxide. An international team of scientists from Germany and Australia looked to the...

Oct 2, 2019

Nanoparticle delivery system can make RNA vaccines more powerful

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Vaccines packaged in novel nanoparticles could offer a new way to fight cancer and infectious diseases.

Oct 2, 2019

Quantizing single-molecule surface enhanced Raman Scattering with DNA origami metamolecules

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Tailored metal nanoclusters can be actively developed in the lab to manipulate light at the subwavelength scale for nanophotonic applications. However, their precise molecular arrangement in a hotspot with fixed numbers and positions remain challe...

Oct 2, 2019

Controlling the structure of platinum nanoparticles and tuning their catalytic properties

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A new article just published in Nature Catalysis shows the simple ways of controlling the structure of platinum nanoparticles and tuning their catalytic properties.

Oct 2, 2019

Using nanomachines to help fight the war on diabetes

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Anti-diabetic drugs may become cheaper and more accessible thanks to a breakthrough from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency.

Oct 2, 2019

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