Research team at TU Graz discovers atomic-level processes which can provide new approaches to improving material properties.
Nov 13, 2018
Indiana University scientists paired drug-delivering nanoparticles like dance partners to reveal that molecules attach to targets on cells differently based upon their position in time. The discovery could improve methods for screening drugs for t...
Nov 13, 2018
Scientists from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)--a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory--have dramatically improved the response of graphene to light through self-assembling ...
Nov 13, 2018
Scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with the Monash University Australia, have succeeded in significantly increasing the stability and biocompatibility of special light-transducing nanoparticles. They ...
Nov 13, 2018
Rice University bioengineers have combined a virus that infects moths with magnetic nanoparticles to create a potential new therapy for inherited genetic diseases like muscular dystrophy, sickle cell, cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy and s...
Nov 13, 2018
A team of scientists from the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) and Korea University (Republic of Korea) obtained cobalt and cobalt-iron nanosprings with unique combined magnetic properties and long-lasting elasticity that may be used to devel...
Nov 13, 2018
A new study by researchers from the National University of Singapore has uncovered a major problem - a lack of graphene production standards has led to many cases of poor quality products from suppliers. Such practices can impede the progress of r...
Nov 13, 2018
New work could help advance autonomous and intelligent nanoscale robotic systems The post DNA nanobot escapes from a maze appeared first on Physics World.
Nov 12, 2018
A new fabrication process for transparent ultra-thin silver films has been developed. The material may help build highly efficient solar cells and light-emitting diodes. However, traditional chemical methods have not been able to produce ultra-thi...
Nov 12, 2018
Using microstructured layers, a team has been able to increase the efficiency of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells, achieving 25.5 %, which is the highest published value to date. At the same time, computational simulations were utilized to in...
Nov 12, 2018
