The difficulty in spotting minute amounts of disease circulating in the bloodstream has proven a stumbling block in the detection and treatment of cancers that advance stealthily with few symptoms. With a novel electrochemical biosensing device th...
Apr 2, 2019
Scientists at the Sensitive Instrument Facility of the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory achieved real-time atom rearrangement monitoring using aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy during the synthesis of int...
Apr 2, 2019
With nothing more than a photonic chip and an ordinary camera, EPFL researchers have managed to count biomolecules one by one in a small sample and determine their position. Their tiny device -- a marriage of optics and smart image analysis -- is ...
Apr 2, 2019
An exciting rapid growth of large graphene single crystal on liquid Cu with the rate up to 79 μm s-1 based on the liquid metal chemical vapor deposition strategy was released by Lei Fu et al. in Science China Materials.
Apr 2, 2019
A new method for cooling levitated nanoparticles using optical tweezers, discovered by researchers at the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), could advance scientists’ abilit...
Apr 1, 2019
Scientists have proposed a new method for producing more robust Majorana fermions, a kind of quasiparticle that could act as stable bits of information in next-generation quantum computers.
Apr 1, 2019
Electrospinning uses electric fields to manipulate nanoscale and microscale fibers. The technique is well-developed but time-intensive and costly. A team from Michigan Technological University came up...
Apr 1, 2019
All-dielectric nanoantennas remain chemically non-invasive, they cause no effect on the studied analytes and reactions.
Apr 1, 2019
Despite decades of research, definitive conclusions on the environmental impact of nanoparticles remain elusive, as Anna Demming reports The post Nanotechnology goes green(er) appeared first on Physics World.
Apr 1, 2019
![[APRIL FOOLS' DAY!] Researchers create molecular-scale Rubik's Cube](https://statnano.com/resource/amar_rss_definition/files/images/21/1/thumbnail_ce8c2007f15b961868bb882f3a5c361f.jpg)
Ever since Ernő Rubik invented the Rubik's Cube in 1974, the mathematical puzzle has tested the brains and patience of people of all ages. Two researchers working on molecular manipulation at the Laboratory of Atomic Materials (LAM) set thems...
Apr 1, 2019
