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Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Nano Pharmaceutical Developed to Target Cancer Cells

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

An Iranian knowledge-based company has managed to develop a nano-pharmaceutical that targets cancerous cells and helps treat recurrent cancers.

Oct 11, 2018

Light switch: Scientists develop method to control nanoscale manipulation in high-powered microscopes

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Researchers from Japan have taken a step toward faster and more advanced electronics by developing a way to better measure and manipulate conductive materials through scanning tunneling microscopy.

Oct 11, 2018

Efficiently turning light into electricity: New research has now shown that certain perovskites in fact do have this desirable property

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Perovskites form a group of crystals that have many promising properties for applications in nano-technology. However, one useful property that so far was unobserved in perovskites is so-called carrier multiplication -- an effect that makes materi...

Oct 11, 2018

A new cancer weapon: Antibodies

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Engineers haVE proposed a novel approach to antibody-based imaging of cancer, using ultrasmall silica nanoparticles -- better known as 'Cornell dots' (or C dots).

Oct 11, 2018

Ultrasmall targeted nanoparticles with engineered antibody fragments as an anti-cancer weapon

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Scientists have equipped ultrasmall silicon nanoparticles with antibody fragments. These nanoparticles allow for renal clearance while achieving the specificity needed for efficient tumor targeting.

Oct 11, 2018

3 Questions: Frances Ross on witnessing nanostructure formation

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New experiments observing nanoscale crystal structures forming in real-time show biomineralization, nanoscale bubbles, and catalysts in action.

Oct 11, 2018

Efficient light conversion with perovskite nanocrystals

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Perovskites are a family of crystals that show promising properties for applications in nanotechnology. However, a property called carrier multiplication, an effect that makes materials much more efficient in converting light into electricity, has...

Oct 11, 2018

Nanoreactors to synthesize organic substances under visible light

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A RUDN chemist developed a new type of photocatalysts - nanostructures from titanium dioxide. Hollow nanocubes with ultra-thin walls act like nanoreactors and provide for 28 fold more effective organic reactions at room temperature under the infl...

Oct 11, 2018

Simple fabrication of full-color perovskite LEDs

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A next-generation optical material based on perovskite nanoparticles can achieve vivid colors even on very large screens. Due to their high color purity and low cost advantages, it has also gained much interests in industry. A recent study includi...

Oct 11, 2018

Graphene Controls Surface Magnetism at Room Temperature

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In a refreshing change of perspective, theoretical physicist Dr Zeila Zanolli has looked at the proximity effects of graphene on a magnetic semiconducting substrate, finding it to affect the...

Oct 11, 2018

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