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Study offers a comprehensive analysis of bacterial and fungal alterations in COVID-19

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Researchers use nanopore sequencing to determine the fungal and bacterial microbiota in the lungs of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients.

Jul 24, 2023

Journey to Quantum Supremacy: First Steps Toward Realizing Mechanical Qubits

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Quantum information (QI) processing has the potential to revolutionize technology, offering unparalleled computational power, safety, and detection sensitivity.

Jul 23, 2023

Billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving baby food containers

NanoDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

The fastest way to heat food and drink might also rank as the fastest route to ingesting massive quantities of minuscule plastic particles, says new research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Experiments have shown that microwaving plastic ...

Jul 23, 2023

Researchers use graphene to design a multi-parameter tunable plasmon modulator

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Researchers from Ningbo University and Southeast University have designed a hybrid silicon-dielectric-graphene-grating structure, which can modulate the amplitude, wavelength and phase of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) simultaneously.

Jul 22, 2023

Customizing carbon nanotube biosensors to detect bacteria and viruses

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The new sensor design resembles a molecular toolbox that can be used to quickly assemble sensors for a variety of purposes.

Jul 21, 2023

DNA Origami Nanostructures: Reprogramming the Shape of Virus Capsids To Advance Biomedicine

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Proteins that encapsulate viruses can be molded into defined shapes using DNA and RNA origami nanostructures.

Jul 21, 2023

Simultaneous Synthesis and Fixing of Covalent Organic Frameworks

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An electrogenerated acid can catalyze the synthesis and simultaneous immobilization of imine-based covalent organic frameworks (COFs) onto electrodes, report scientists from Tokyo Tech. Starting with amine and aldehyde monomers, they obtained corr...

Jul 21, 2023

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Two types of ultrafast mode-locking operations generation from an Er-doped fiber laser based on germanene nanosheets

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Saturable absorbers as passive modulators in passively mode-locked fiber lasers play a crucial role in the generation of ultrashort pulses. Germanene, a graphene-like two-dimensional material with fast carrier relaxation time and large nonlinear a...

Jul 21, 2023

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Detection of bacteria and viruses with fluorescent nanotubes

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An interdisciplinary research team from Bochum, Duisburg and Zurich has developed a new approach to construct modular optical sensors which are capable of detecting viruses and bacteria. For this purpose, the researchers used fluorescent carbon na...

Jul 21, 2023

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving baby food containers: Exposure to plastic particles kills up to 75% of cultured kidney cells

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The fastest way to heat food and drink might also rank as the fastest route to ingesting massive quantities of minuscule plastic particles, says new research from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Jul 21, 2023

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