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Anticancer drugs to be delivered directly to cells by magnetic nanospring capsules

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Scientists obtained nanosprings that may be used to develop nanorobots and targeted drug delivery agents.

Nov 13, 2018

Moths and nanomagnets could save lives

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Experimental therapy could repair mutations that cause genetic diseases.

Nov 13, 2018

Using fine-tuning for record-breaking solar cell performance

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Materials scientists have achieved a new record in the performance of organic non-fullerene based single-junction solar cells. Using a series of complex optimisations, they achieved certified power conversion efficiency of 12.25 percent on a surfa...

Nov 13, 2018

Detecting light in a different dimension

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Electrically conductive polymer nanostructures that are many times longer than they are wide make graphene a better light detector.

Nov 13, 2018

Nanotribological printing - a novel 3D nanotechnology fabrication technique

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A novel nanoscale additive manufacturing technique termed Nanotribological Printing creates structures through tribomechanical and tribochemical surface interactions at the contact between a substrate and an atomic force microscope probe, where ma...

Nov 13, 2018

Researchers ID promising key to performance of next-gen electronics

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Taking electrons out for a spin through the nanoscopic streets of a digital device – without spinning out of control – has challenged researchers for years.

Nov 13, 2018

Detecting light in a different dimension

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Scientists from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)—a U.S. 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

Surfaces with controlled wettability to trap and identify molecules at trace concentrations

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An international group of physicists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), the Russian Academy of Sciences and Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) has developed a technology for trapping and chemical analysis of organic and non-or...

Nov 13, 2018

Researchers offer solution in fight against fake graphene

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Ever since the isolation of graphene was first achieved in 2004, there has been an explosion in graphene-related research and development, with hundreds of business opportunists producing graphene to capitalise on this rapidly expanding industry. ...

Nov 13, 2018

Experimental therapy could repair mutations that cause genetic diseases

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A new technology that relies on a moth-infecting virus and nanomagnets could be used to edit defective genes that give rise to diseases like sickle cell, muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis.

Nov 13, 2018

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