World news

Results: 32792
arrow_upward arrow_downward

A burst of 'synchronous' light

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Sandwich structure of nanocrystals as quantum light source.

Nov 8, 2018

Creating better devices: The etch stops here

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of multi-disciplinary scientists and engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have discovered a new, more precise, method to create nanoscale-size electromechanical devices. Their research findings are published in Nature...

Nov 8, 2018

Do kitchen items shed antimicrobial nanoparticles after use?

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

In a new paper, scientists from NIST, FDA and CPSC describe how they simulated knife motion, washing and scratching on bacteria-fighting, nanosilver-infused cutting boards to see if consumer use affects nanoparticle release. The test should help r...

Nov 8, 2018

New magnetically controlled thrombolytic successfully passed preclinical testing

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

New anti-thrombosis drug based on magnetite nanoparticles developed at ITMO University was successfully tested on animals. Preclinical studies showed drug's high efficacy and safety. Clot dissolution time of the new drug is 20 times shorter t...

Nov 8, 2018

Pore size alone does not matter when biological nanopores act as sugar chain biosensors

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Protein nanopores can be found naturally in cell membranes, and act as biological gateways. Yet they can also be useful for the detection of specific bioactive molecular chains, like sugar chains, which are responsible for key interactions at the ...

Nov 8, 2018

A burst of 'synchronous' light

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Excited photo-emitters can cooperate and radiate simultaneously, a phenomenon called superfluorescence. Researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich, together with colleagues from IBM Research Zurich, have recently been able to create this effect with lon...

Nov 8, 2018

Metallic nanocatalysts imitate the structure of enzymes

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

An international team of researchers has transferred certain structural characteristics of natural enzymes, which ensure particularly high catalytic activity, to metallic nanoparticles. The desired chemical reaction thus did not take place at the ...

Nov 8, 2018

Bionic mushroom uses bacteria and graphene to generate electricity

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

Could your home one day be powered by patches of mushrooms? Probably not, but scientists have nonetheless created a "bionic mushroom" that does indeed generate electricity – and it may pave the way for more practical bio-electric...

Nov 7, 2018

Scientists shuffle the deck to create materials with new quantum behaviors

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides or TMDCs -- materials composed of metal nanolayers sandwiched between two other layers of chalcogens -- have become extremely attractive to the research community. Similar to graphene, they not only retain ...

Nov 7, 2018

Watching nanoparticles: Researchers make movies of photochemistry in single nanoparticles

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Stanford researchers retooled an electron microscope to work with visible light and gas flow, making it possible to watch a photochemical reaction as it swept across a nanoparticle the size of a single cold virus.

Nov 7, 2018

REFINE