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EU commits €30m to five new nano safety projects

Chemical Watch   -   Scientific News Websites

Safe by design, nanoinformatics and risk governance are key themes

Jul 11, 2019

New Nanomaterial Tape can Function over a Wide Temperature Range

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Regular tapes lose their stickiness and leave behind a disturbing residue in very cold or hot environments. Although a majority of the people can avoid placing taped items in a freezer or hot car,...

Jul 11, 2019

Nanomaterials Can Help Develop New Computer Technologies and Medical Equipment

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists are turning to nanomaterials to develop new and more efficient medical devices, computers, and other sophisticated technologies. Nanomaterials are materials that are manipulated on the...

Jul 11, 2019

A nanoparticle 'EpiPen' for spinal cord injuries

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

An injection of nanoparticles can prevent the body's immune system from overreacting to trauma, potentially preventing some spinal cord injuries from resulting in paralysis.

Jul 11, 2019

Osteoblastic lysosome plays a central role in mineralization

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Mineralization is mediated by osteoblasts, which secrete mineral precursors through matrix vesicles (MVs) as a fundamental process in vertebrates. The vesicles are calcium and phosphate rich, containing organic materials such as acidic proteins. I...

Jul 11, 2019

Designer proteins form wires and lattices on mineral surface

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Findings lay foundation for engineered nano-scale circuits, sensors and filters.

Jul 11, 2019

Coupling qubits to sound in a multimode cavity

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In a recent study, researchers at the University of Colorado have resolved phonon Fock states in the spectrum of a superconducting qubit coupled to a multimode acoustic cavity. Fock states (or number states) are quantum states with a clearly defin...

Jul 11, 2019

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers employed multiple microbiology and omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than free-living organisms as had been originally thought.

Jul 11, 2019

Trapped light particles: Physicists use nanostructures to free photons for highly efficient white OLEDs

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The physicists introduce a facile, scalable and especially lithography-free method for the generation of controllable nanostructures with directional randomness and dimensional order, significantly boosting the efficiency of white OLEDs.

Jul 11, 2019

Spraying nanopaper

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

With a new spray coating process, very uniform layers of cellulose nanofibers (CNF) can be produced on an industrial scale. X-ray investigations at DESY's research light source PETRA III as well as investigations with an atomic force microsc...

Jul 11, 2019

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