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iPhone plus nanoscale porous silicon equals cheap, simple home diagnostics

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The simplest home medical tests might look like a deck of various silicon chips coated in special film, one that could detect drugs in the blood, another for proteins in the urine indicating infection, another for bacteria in water and the like. A...

Jun 11, 2019

Plot twist: Straightening single-molecule conductors improves their performance

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have synthesized nanowires made of a single molecule of oligothiophene up to 10 nanometers in length. By forcing the molecular chain to adopt a planar conformation, they were able to significantly enhance its electrical conductivity. T...

Jun 11, 2019

iPhone plus nanoscale porous silicon equals cheap, simple home diagnostics

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

The simplest home medical tests might look like a deck of various silicon chips coated in special film, one that could detect drugs in the blood, another for proteins in the urine indicating infection, another for bacteria in water and the like. A...

Jun 11, 2019

Solvent pH controls interactions of gold nanoclusters, offers potential applications in drugs and imaging

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

The properties of gold in nanoscale are significantly different to those of bulk gold. Of special interest are gold nanoclusters, that are composed of between tens to some hundreds of gold atoms. Numerous of such cluster structures are known and s...

Jun 11, 2019

Plot twist: Straightening single-molecule conductors improves their performance

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A team at Osaka University has created single-molecule nanowires, complete with an insulation layer, up to 10 nanometers in length. When they measured the electrical properties of these nanowires, the researchers found that forcing the ribbon-like...

Jun 11, 2019

Plot twist: Straightening single-molecule conductors improves their performance

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have created single-molecule nanowires, complete with an insulation layer, up to 10 nanometers in length. When they measured the electrical properties of these nanowires, the researchers found that forcing the ribbon-like chains to be ...

Jun 11, 2019

Tiny light box opens new doors into the nanoworld

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have discovered a completely new way of capturing, amplifying and linking light to matter at the nanolevel. Using a tiny box, built from stacked atomically thin material, they have succeeded in creating a type of feedback loop in which...

Jun 11, 2019

Light-powered nano-organisms consume carbon dioxide, create eco-friendly plastics and fuels

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for ch...

Jun 11, 2019

Innovative Method to Detect Magnetic Fields of Nanoscale Particles

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

As if they were bubbles growing in a recently-opened champagne bottle, minute circular regions of magnetism can be quickly enlarged to offer a precise technique of measuring the magnetic properties of...

Jun 11, 2019

Bioinspired Materials—Graphene-enabled nickel composites

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Bioinspired engineering strategies rely on achieving the combined biological properties of strength and toughness inherent in nature. Tissue engineers and materials scientists therefore aim to construct intelligent, hierarchical biomimetic structu...

Jun 11, 2019

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