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Gold for iron nanocubes

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

One of the major challenges in nanotechnology is the precise control of shape, size and elemental composition of every single nanoparticle. Physical methods are able to produce homogeneous nanoparticles free of surface contamination. However, they...

Jun 17, 2019

Innovative technique uses sensory nanoparticles to detect disease

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital are taking advantage of a unique phenomenon of nanoparticles to develop a test for early detection of different types of diseases, including cancer.

Jun 17, 2019

Innovative technique uses sensory nanoparticles to detect disease: Building on new insights about nanoparticles, investigators develop a test for early detection of diseases, including different types of cancer

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Like dipping a donut hole in powdered sugar, nanoparticles collect a unique coating of proteins from the blood. In a new study, researchers present a nanoparticle sensor array that they are developing as an early detection test for cancer and othe...

Jun 17, 2019

New Quantum Dot Microscope Shows Electric Potentials of Individual Atoms

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of researchers from Jülich in cooperation with the University of Magdeburg has developed a new method to measure the electric potentials of a sample at atomic accuracy. Using conventional methods, it was virtually impossible until now to q...

Jun 17, 2019

Researchers share their protocol for handling carbon nanotubes

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In collaboration with a Rice University laboratory, the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University has developed and shared a low-cost method to safely handle the transfer of bulk carbon nanotubes and other nanomaterials. It do...

Jun 17, 2019

Decorating iron nanocubes with gold increases their functionality

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers revealed that hybrid Au/Fe nanoparticles can grow in an unprecedentedly complex structure with a single-step fabrication method.

Jun 17, 2019

Early cancer detection with sensory protein corona 'fingerprints'

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

When nanoparticles enter the blood stream or other biological fluids, they are quickly surrounded by a layer of proteins. This so-called protein corona on the nanoparticles hinders interactions between the targeting ligands on the nanoparticles an...

Jun 17, 2019

Researchers from IKBFU study nanoparticles synthesized by method of electric explosion

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Physicists from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University conduct a study on nanomaterials that have been synthesized by the method of the electric explosion. Research group of the Laboratory of Novel Magnetic Materials has studied the magnetic ...

Jun 17, 2019

Gold for iron nanocubes

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Hybrid Au/Fe nanoparticles can grow in an unprecedentedly complex structure with a single-step fabrication method.

Jun 17, 2019

Innovative technique uses sensory nanoparticles to detect disease

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Like dipping a donut hole in powdered sugar, nanoparticles collect a unique coating of proteins from the blood. In a new study published in the Royal Society of Chemistry's peer-reviewed journal Nanoscale Horizons, researchers present a nanop...

Jun 17, 2019

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