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Going with the (slow) flow: New technique could improve biotech, precision medicine

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Researchers have developed an optical system that accurately measures the flow of extraordinarily tiny amounts of liquids -- as small as 10 billionths of a liter (nanoliters) per minute.

Sep 26, 2019

NIST goes with the (slow) flow: New technique could improve biotech, precision medicine

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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an optical system that accurately measures the flow of extraordinarily tiny amounts of liquids—as small as 10 billionths of a liter (nanoliters) per minute.

Sep 26, 2019

Chemists clarify a chiral conundrum: Scientists disentangle protein-nanoparticle interactions, suggest path to drug-sensing tool

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Researchers set out to untangle the mysterious interactions in mixtures of proteins and gold nanorods. Their experiments revealed multilevel chirality in the way proteins prompt nanoparticles to align and in how the particles' plasmons respon...

Sep 26, 2019

Scientists disentangle protein-nanoparticle interactions, suggest path to drug-sensing tool

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It's always good when your intuition turns out to be right, but scientists at Rice University studying proteins and particles were more "right" than they expected.

Sep 26, 2019

Scientists disentangle protein-nanoparticle interactions, suggest path to drug-sensing tool

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Researchers report that bovine serum albumin (BSA), a standard-issue protein in nano-bio lab experimentation, is prone to pushing gold nanorods into right-handed chiral assemblies - while producing chiral plasmonic signals to match.

Sep 26, 2019

Machine learning opens new possibilities for quantum devices

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Scientists from the University of Oxford, in collaboration with University of Basel and Lancaster University, have developed an algorithm that can be used to measure quantum dots automatically.

Sep 26, 2019

'Safe-by-Design' - On the road to safe nanomedicine

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An international research consortium has developed guidelines that should enable the safe development of nanoparticles for medical use.

Sep 26, 2019

Breakthrough in electrocatalysts reported

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Recently, the group of Professor Guo Shaojun in College of Engineering at Peking University developed a novel type of sub-nanometer, highly curved PdMo nanosheet—due to its structural analogy with graphene, it was denoted as PdMo bimetallene, and ...

Sep 26, 2019

Development of highly sensitive diode, converts microwaves to electricity: Aiming to create sensor networks that do not require dedicated power sources

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A group of researchers developed a highly sensitive rectifying element in the form of a nanowire backward diode, which can covert low-power microwaves into electricity. The new technology is expected that the newly-developed nanowire backward diod...

Sep 26, 2019

Study finds EU regulatory framework ready for the next generation of nanomaterials

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A study commissioned by the EU nanomaterials observatory has found that the current EU regulatory framework for characterising and identifying 'next generation' nanomaterials is able to address the majority of them and that no significan...

Sep 26, 2019

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