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Combination of Nanoparticles and Bioglass can Help Fight Harmful Bacteria

Bacteria are presently ahead of humans in the arms race 'mankind against bacteria.' Antibiotics—the previous miracle weapons of humans—are failing more often because tricky maneuvers are used by microorganisms to safeguard themselves from the impacts of these medications.

23 Apr 2021

Nanoform and Aprecia Collaborate to Advance 3D Printed Nanomedicines

Nanoform Finland Plc, an innovative nanoparticle medicine enabling company, and Aprecia, the 3DP (three-dimensional printing) pharmaceutical company, announce that they are exploring the synergies between their respective technologies in the field of nanoparticle-enabled 3DP dosage forms.

From Aprecia Pharmaceuticals 23 Apr 2021

Stable, Reusable Nickel Phosphide Nanoalloy Catalyst for Selective Hydrogenation of Maltose to Maltitol

Catalysts lie at the heart of a greener and more sustainable future for chemical production. However, many of the catalysts currently in widespread use have limitations that affect their efficiency.

22 Apr 2021

Study Sheds New Light on Graphene Interface Properties at Microscopic Levels

Graphene has special chemical and physical properties, like thermal and electrical conductivity, mechanical flexibility, chemical stability, selective permeability to water, sub-nanometer thickness, and optical transparency.

22 Apr 2021

SMART Breakthrough in Materials Discovery Enables ‘Twistronics’ for Bulk Systems

Researchers from the Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore together with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a new way to control light emission from materials.

22 Apr 2021

Complex DNA Robots Could be Designed in Minutes

DNA-based robots could form a massive part of the medicine of the future and a new tool could design incredibly complex nanomachines in a matter of minutes rather than days.

By Robert Lea 20 Apr 2021

Researchers Discover New Type of Flow Behavior in Functionalized Nanochannels

Nanochannels have important applications in biomedicine, sensing, and many other fields. Though engineers working in the field of nanotechnology have been fabricating these tiny, tube-like structures for years, much remains unknown about their properties and behavior.

20 Apr 2021

New Nanomedicine Device Efficiently Delivers Drugs

A micro-sized polymeric net wrapping around brain tumors, just like a fishing net around a shoal of fish: this is the microMESH, a new nanomedicine device capable to conform around the surface of tumor masses and efficiently deliver drugs.

20 Apr 2021

Machine Learning Predicts the Structural Formation of Nanomaterials

The production of nanomaterials involves self-assembly processes of functionalized (organic) molecules on inorganic surfaces.

20 Apr 2021

Chemically Modified Cotton Wool Helps Separate Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

The project was kickstarted in 2017 when a delegation of YTC America (subsidiary of Yazaki Corporation) visited Kazan Federal University.

20 Apr 2021

Fast Focusing Linear Slide has Nanometer Precision, High Dynamics, and Maintenance-free Voice Coil Motor

New long-travel addition to PI’s large range of nanopositioning slides for fast focusing tasks in semiconductor metrology, microscopy, life sciences, and slide scanning applications.

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 20 Apr 2021

Coxem introduces the SELPA Scanning Electron Particle Analyzer

Coxem is pleased to announce the newest addition to their line of electron microscopy-based analysis tools, the SELPA particle analyzer. Designed to accommodate large samples (up to 100 mm in diameter), SELPA rapidly and...

From COXEM Co. Ltd. 19 Apr 2021

Reversible Oxygen Migration Enables Ferroelectricity in Hafnia-Based Thin Films

Hafnium-based thin films, with a thickness of only a few nanometres, show an unconventional form of ferroelectricity.

16 Apr 2021

Highly Accurate Physicochemical Characterisation of Small Nanoparticles

Analytik Ltd reports how researchers at the Centre for Bionano Interactions, University College Dublin, Ireland have used a DC24000 ultra high-resolution particle size analyzer for accurate physicochemical characterisation of small-sized nanoparticles.

From Analytik Ltd 15 Apr 2021