Researchers have developed a new nanotheranostic system that overcomes several problems with previous approaches.
Jul 8, 2019
Researchers have discovered a way of making semiconducting, photoluminescent nanotubes form spontaneously in liquid solutions. The tubes, which consist of several walls that are perfectly uniform and just a few atoms thick, display optical propert...
Jul 8, 2019
The group of professor Ilari Maasilta at the Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä specializes on studying how different nanostructures can be used to enhance or impede the transport of heat. The group's latest results, published in the...
Jul 8, 2019
Theranostics is an emerging field of medicine whose name is a combination of "therapeutics" and "diagnostics." The idea behind theranostics is to combine drugs and/or techniques to simultaneously—or sequentially—diagnose and tr...
Jul 8, 2019
EU-funded LINABIOFLUID scientists studied desert-dwelling horned lizards by using electron microscopes. These lizards survive in dry environments by gathering dew via their skin, and flat bark bugs,...
Jul 8, 2019
Curtin University researchers have discovered tiny 'greener' nanocrystals that can be manipulated to produce high-quality pictures and lighting in electronic devices such as televisions.
Jul 8, 2019
Efficiently moving water upward against gravity is a major feat of human engineering, yet one that trees have mastered for hundreds of millions of years. In a new study, researchers have designed a tree-inspired water transport system that uses ca...
Jul 8, 2019
Solar energy harvested by semiconductors—materials whose electrical resistance is in between that of regular metals and insulators—can trigger surface electrochemical reactions to generate clean and sustainable fuels such as hydrogen. Highly stabl...
Jul 8, 2019
Cells and microorganisms produce and consume all sorts of chemicals, from nutrients to signaling molecules. The same happens at the nanoscale inside cells themselves, where enzymes catalyze the production and consumption of the chemicals needed f...
Jul 8, 2019
Diverse array of companies will counsel, collaborate to boost nanoscale research.
Jul 8, 2019
