What if we could engineer living LEGO-like structures that can self-replicate and move around, and can be programmed to grow and self-assemble into any desired target shape?
Aug 18, 2022
A robust nanofiltration membrane that acts as a highly effective molecular sieve can avoid many of the problems with current polymer membranes.
Aug 18, 2022
Magnetic materials are employed in a variety of devices, including motors, sensors, cell phones, and data storage. As technology becomes smaller and smaller, researchers are constantly hunting for new magnetic particles.
Aug 18, 2022
Topological insulators, or TIs, have two faces: Electrons flow freely along their surface edges, like cars on a superhighway, but can't flow through the interior of the material at all. It takes a special set of conditions to create this uniq...
Aug 18, 2022
Researchers have published work in Advanced Materials describing a rapid and simple method to form ordered arrays of gold nanoparticles with plasmonic properties.
Aug 18, 2022
Materials scientists from MISIS University have presented antibacterial nano-coatings with up to 99.99% efficiency against microbial and fungal pathogens. A material based on boron nitride and ultrafine metallized silver or iron oxide nanoparticle...
Aug 18, 2022
Artificial nanomotors with advanced functions, such as motility and miniaturization, enabled the exploration of new strategies for cancer treatment. However, these nanorobots do not contain multiple functions that could help progress this technolo...
Aug 18, 2022
Many valuable metals like gold, silver, lithium and uranium are vital to high technology and modern industry. The terrestrial mineral reserves of these metals are generally very limited or suffer from high mining cost. Although most of these valua...
Aug 18, 2022
In a first, a dye-sensitized photocatalyst that facilitates the most efficient solar water splitting activity recorded to date (for similar catalysts) has been optimized by researchers from Tokyo Tech. Their surface-modified, dye-sensitized nanosh...
Aug 18, 2022
A paper published in the journal Ceramics International reported the development of an organic-inorganic covering of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) combined with zirconia (ZrO2) nanoparticles for improving the corrosion resistance of magnesium (Mg) a...
Aug 18, 2022
