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Discovery may lead to precision-based strategy for triple negative breast cancer: Promising nanotechnology approach for treatment of aggressive form of disease

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A researcher in the Vera Bradley Foundation Center for Breast Cancer Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine, working in collaboration with researchers from the University of Maryland, recently reported several important findings rel...

Mar 21, 2019

Researchers boost intensity of nanowire LEDs

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Nanowire researchers have made ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that, thanks to a special type of shell, produce five times higher light intensity than do comparable LEDs based on a simpler shell design.

Mar 21, 2019

Golden ball in a golden cage: 'Golden fullerene': Ligand-protected nanocluster made of 32 gold atoms

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Researchers have synthesized a tiny structure from 32 gold atoms. This nanocluster has a core of 12 gold atoms surrounded by a shell of 20 additional gold atoms. The unusual stability of this cluster results from electronic interactions with amido...

Mar 21, 2019

Nanoscale Patterning of Light Manipulates Macroscale Objects

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

By creating a distinct nanoscale patterning on the surface of an object, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have designed a way to levitate and propel objects using only light. The patterning interacts with light in s...

Mar 21, 2019

Nanoscale Patterning of Light Manipulates Macroscale Objects

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

By creating a distinct nanoscale patterning on the surface of an object, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have designed a way to levitate and propel objects using only light. The patterning interacts with light in s...

Mar 21, 2019

Superconducting nanowires could be used to detect dark matter

MIT Technology Review   -   Scientific News Websites

If physicists have been going about the search the wrong way, these clever sensors might help.

Mar 21, 2019

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Fish-Inspired Material Changes Color Using Nanocolumns

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Magnetically Actuated Dynamic Iridescence Inspired by the Neon Tetra Authors: Zhiren Luo and Chih-Hao Chang, North Carolina State University; Benjamin Evans, Elon University Published: March 1...

Mar 21, 2019

NIST researchers boost intensity of nanowire LEDs

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanowire gurus at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that, thanks to a special type of shell, produce five times higher light intensity than do comparable LEDs based on a si...

Mar 21, 2019

'Golden fullerene': ligand-protected nanocluster made of 32 gold atoms

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers have synthesized a tiny structure from 32 gold atoms. This nanocluster has a core of 12 gold atoms surrounded by a shell of 20 additional gold atoms. As the scientists report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the unusual stability of t...

Mar 21, 2019

New Cutting-Edge Nanotechnology Can Help Curb Gasoline and Diesel Usage

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

FuelGems Inc., a Silicon Valley startup, has launched an advanced nanotechnology that can help in controlling the usage of diesel and gasoline. After decades of research and development, elaborate...

Mar 21, 2019

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