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Advanced nanoparticles provide new weapon to fight difficult cancers

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanoparticles, or tiny molecules that can deliver a payload of drug treatments and other agents, show great promise for treating cancers. Scientists can build them in various shapes with different materials, often as porous, crystal-like structure...

Oct 27, 2022

Mixing gold ions into whiskey can reveal its flavor

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By changing the spirit’s color, the formation of gold nanoparticles can reveal how much flavor a whiskey has absorbed from its wood cask.

Oct 27, 2022

Inspired by nature: Silencing bacteria with nanoparticles

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Cerium dioxide nanoparticles work in biological processes like natural enzymes and change signaling molecules, thereby preventing the formation of biofilms.

Oct 27, 2022

Advanced nanoparticles provide new weapon to fight difficult cancers

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers use nanoparticles to deliver a bacterially derived compound that targets the STING pathway to suppress tumor growth and metastasis by disrupting blood vessels and stimulating immune response.

Oct 27, 2022

Overview of the emerging field of 2D ferroelectric materials with layered van der Waals crystal structures

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A UNSW paper published recently in Nature Reviews Materials presents an exciting overview of the emerging field of 2D ferroelectric materials with layered van der Waals crystal structures, a novel class of low-dimensional materials that is highly ...

Oct 27, 2022

Improving the efficiency of nanogenerators that harvest static electricity

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Researchers theorize a new way to design triboelectric nanogenerators with a constant inherent capacitance.

Oct 27, 2022

A New Technique for Precisely Arranging Nanoscale Particles on a Surface

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Researchers at MIT have developed a technique for precisely controlling the arrangement and placement of nanoparticles on a material, like the silicon used for computer chips, in a way that does not damage or contaminate the surface of the material.

Oct 27, 2022

Nanoconfined water enters intermediate solid-liquid phase

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

"Hexatic" phase of water trapped in narrow nanoscale cavities is also highly conductive The post Nanoconfined water enters intermediate solid-liquid phase appeared first on Physics World.

Oct 27, 2022

Advance brings quantum computing one step closer to implementation

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Quantum computers are powerful computational devices that rely on quantum mechanics, or the science of how particles like electrons and atoms interact with the world around them. These devices could potentially be used to solve certain kinds of co...

Oct 27, 2022

Electrons that flow like liquids pave the way for robust quantum computers

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Researchers have demonstrated unprecedented control of a one-dimensional flow of electrons in a rare quantum state that physicists have sought to understand for over half a century. The technique suggests a path to more-robust and more-accurate qu...

Oct 27, 2022

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