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Molecular scaffolding aids construction at the nanoscale

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have made a nanoscale construction kit comprised of molecular 'bricks' and 'scaffolding,' inspired by the way the extracellular matrix is built around living cells.

Apr 18, 2018

Flexible TVs and high performance wearable smart tech one step closer

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Flexible televisions, tablets and phones as well as 'truly wearable' smart tech are a step closer thanks to a nanoscale transistor just created.

Apr 18, 2018

Flexible TVs and high performance wearable smart tech one step closer

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Flexible televisions, tablets and phones as well as 'truly wearable' smart tech are a step closer thanks to a nanoscale transistor created by researchers at The University of Manchester and Shandong University in China.

Apr 18, 2018

New Technologies are Helping Connect and Protect the Internet of Things | Research Horizons

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New technologies under development at Georgia Tech are helping protect and connect electronic devices everywhere. Cybersecurity Electronics and Nanotechnology National Security People and Technology

Apr 18, 2018

Nanotechnology takes steps towards artificial retinas

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Sensory substitution with flexible electronics is one of the intriguing fields of research that takes place in nanotechnology labs around the world. In line with this focus on human senses, in the future artificial retinas integrated with the huma...

Apr 18, 2018

Team creates new tool to speed up the design of wearable tech

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In a new paper published by Nano Energy, experts from the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) at the University of Surrey detail a new methodology that allows designers of smart-wearables to better understand and predict how their products would p...

Apr 17, 2018

New type of opal formed by common seaweed discovered

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Scientists have discovered a completely new type of opal formed by a common seaweed which harnesses natural technology by self-assembling a nanostructure of oil droplets to control how light reflects from its cells to display a shimmering array of...

Apr 17, 2018

Nanomotor guided inside a living cell using a magnetic field

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A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore has developed a type of nanomotor that can be guided inside of a living cell using an external magnetic field. In their paper published in the journal Advanced Materials, the gr...

Apr 17, 2018

BESSY II sheds light on how the internal compass is constructed in magnetotactic bacteria

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Magnetotactic bacteria can sense the Earth's magnetic field via magnetic nanoparticles in their interior that act as an internal compass. Spanish teams and experts at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have now examined the magnetic compass of Magnetospiril...

Apr 17, 2018

Graphene-oxide-based membranes for large-scale energy storage systems

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

As a promising large-scale energy storage technology, redox flow batteries (RFBs) are attracting increasingly more research attention. For RFB separators, the essential requirement is achieving high ionic conductivity with minimal cross-over at lo...

Apr 17, 2018

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