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Vision Spectra Preview - Winter 2022

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Most CMOS sensors have sensitivity in both the visible and NIR region. When it comes to working in the NIR spectrum, these sensors have lower quantum efficiency and can easily be overpowered by any ambient visible light which will create image noi...

Sep 20, 2022

New tool for early detection of hypertension

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Russian scientists have come up with a new tool for early detection of hypertension. They applied surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy powered by silver nanoparticles to detect hypertension-induced molecular changes in blood cells at early stages o...

Sep 20, 2022

Designing new quantum materials on the computer

Tech Xplore   -   Scientific News Websites

How do you find novel materials with very specific properties—for example, special electronic properties which are needed for quantum computers? This is usually a very complicated task: various compounds are created, in which potentially promising...

Sep 20, 2022

Researchers test hybrid, soft/hard nanocarriers to deliver drugs to the brain

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A new approach to making nanocarriers for drug delivery features a soft, fat-like, liposome interior (which is already a clinically approved drug carrier) surrounded by a hard shell of gold nanoparticles.

Sep 20, 2022

Measuring Nanowire-Substrates Thermal Boundary Conductance with Ease

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Any changes in the surface or dimension in nanoscale devices alter their thermal transport. Hence, controlling thermal transport is critical in these devices.

Sep 20, 2022

Inhibiting Ovarian Cancer Growth Using Gold Nanoparticles

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is among the deadliest human cancers and its prognosis remains extremely poor. An article published in Advanced Science explored the self-therapeutic properties of gold nanoparticles to identify a molecular...

Sep 20, 2022

Silicon nanopillars for quantum communication

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Around the world, specialists are working on implementing quantum information technologies. One important path involves light: Looking ahead, single light packages, also known as light quanta or photons, could transmit data that is both coded and ...

Sep 20, 2022

New Insights into Dynamic Imaging Use of Magnetic Nanoparticles

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Unlike non-magnetic nanomaterials, multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles have unique properties, including degradability, remote motion controllability, and diagnostic imaging. Multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles are remotely controllable via ...

Sep 20, 2022

New Strategy To Help Chitosan Nanocrystals Target Cells

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity and lyse microbial cells by interaction with biomembranes, offering great potential in designing new therapeutics. The antimicrobial resistance (AMR) caused due to overu...

Sep 20, 2022

Selective cancer nanoparticle targeting under the microscope

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanoparticles can be used as powerful vehicles to administer vaccines and prevent serious illness, as with the treatment of COVID-19 and to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs to cancer cells with goal of eradicating the cancer cells and leaving the he...

Sep 20, 2022

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