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Getting electrons to move in a semiconductor: Gallium oxide shows high electron mobility, making it promising for better and cheaper devices

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Researchers have shown that a wide-bandgap semiconductor called gallium oxide can be engineered into nanometer-scale structures that allow electrons to move much faster within the crystal structure. With electrons that move with such ease, Ga2O3 c...

Apr 24, 2018

Biophysics -- lighting up DNA-based nanostructures

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Biophysicists have used a new variant of super-resolution microscopy to visualize all the strands of a DNA-based nanostructure for the first time. The method promises to optimize the design of such structures for specific applications.

Apr 24, 2018

Lighting up DNA-based nanostructures

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Biophysicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have used a new variant of super-resolution microscopy to visualize all the strands of a DNA-based nanostructure for the first time. The method promises to optimize the design of s...

Apr 24, 2018

Joining metals without welding

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Welding is still the standard technique for joining metals. However, this laborious process carried out at high temperatures is not suitable for all applications. Now, a research team from the "Functional Nanomaterials" working group at Kiel Unive...

Apr 24, 2018

Scientists roll 2-D cadmium telluride into nanoscrolls

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A team of scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry and the Faculty of Materials Science, MSU, together with foreign colleagues, discovered that two-dimensional sheets of cadmium telluride can spontaneously fold into nanoscrolls. This effect may be...

Apr 24, 2018

NuProbe to commercialize Wyss Institute's new technology to facilitate precision medicine

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NuProbe Global will commercialize the Wyss Institute's DNA nanotechnology-based variant-detecting method as a fast, low-cost and multiplexed molecular diagnostic for different disease areas, including cancer and infectious diseases.

Apr 24, 2018

Scientists create innovative new 'green' concrete using graphene

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A new greener, stronger and more durable concrete that is made using the wonder-material graphene could revolutionise the construction industry.

Apr 23, 2018

Nanomedicine: Drugs can be made 'smarter'

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A new method has been developed to make drugs 'smarter' using nanotechnology so pharmacologists can tailor their drugs to more accurately target an area on the body, such as a cancer tumor.

Apr 23, 2018

Nanotechnology could give us battery-free electronic toys

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A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) utilizes charges arising from friction similar to the static we experience on dry winter days; and by nanostructuring the materials in a TENG device, the produced energy could be amplified by increasing the con...

Apr 23, 2018

Nanomedicine: Drugs can be made 'smarter'

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A new method has been developed to make drugs 'smarter' using nanotechnology so they will be more effective at reaching their target.

Apr 23, 2018

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