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Using Fluorescent Nanosensors to Detect Bacteria

Researchers from Bochum, Göttingen, Duisburg and Cologne have developed a new method for detecting bacteria and infections. They use fluorescent nanosensors to track down pathogens faster and more easily than with established methods.

1 Dec 2020

New Study Could Help Design Smaller Nanophotonics Devices

The use of barcodes to label and recognize day-to-day items is quite usual similar to a trip to the supermarket. What if those barcodes are shrunk a million times, from millimeter to nanometer scale, to enable their use within living cells to label, recognize, and monitor the building blocks of life, or mixed with inks to avoid counterfeiting.

1 Dec 2020

DNA Nanotechnology Could Help Combat Antibiotics-Resistant Bacteria

Antibiotics are drugs that help prevent and treat bacterial infections. They have had a huge role to play in fighting infectious diseases such as pneumonia, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and meningitis in the 20th century.

30 Nov 2020

Ionic Forcefield Prevents Proteins from Binding to Nanoparticles

Nanoparticles are promising drug delivery tools, offering the ability to administer drugs directly to a specific part of the body and avoid the awful side effects so often seen with chemotherapeutics.

26 Nov 2020

Quantum Nanodiamonds Could be Used for Ultrasensitive Diagnostics

The quantum sensing abilities of nanodiamonds can be used to improve the sensitivity of paper-based diagnostic tests, potentially allowing for earlier detection of diseases such as HIV, according to a study led by UCL researchers in the i-sense McKendry group.

26 Nov 2020

Lanthanide nanocrystals brighten molecular triplet excitons

NUS scientists have developed an approach to improve the generation and luminescent harvesting of molecular triplets by coupling them with lanthanide-doped nanoparticles. This innovation provides new insights on lanthanide nanocrystal-molecule interaction in the optoelectronic field.

26 Nov 2020

Carbon nanocomposites one step closer to practical industrial application

A research team from the Center for Design, Manufacturing and Materials at Skoltech has recently published a study focusing on multifunctional materials created through the addition of carbon nanoparticles to polymer mat...

26 Nov 2020

New Understanding of Light-Matter Interactions in Nanophotonic Materials

Physicists from the University of Konstanz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) and the University of Regensburg have successfully demonstrated that ultrashort electron pulses experience a quantum mechanical phase shift through their interaction with light waves in nanophotonic materials, which can uncover the nanomaterials' functionality. The corresponding experiments and results are reported in the latest issue of Science Advances.

25 Nov 2020

New Approach to Predict the Potential Toxicity of Industrial Nanoparticles

Our lungs are exposed to a multitude of hazardous airborne particles on a daily basis. Nanoparticles, due to their small size, may reach the sensitive alveolar region of the human lung and trigger inflammation even after a single inhalation leading to severe diseases such as heart disease, brain damage and lung cancer for prolonged exposure.

25 Nov 2020

Measurement of Cancer Biomarker Enrichment in Exosomes

From Postnova Analytics GmbH 24 Nov 2020

Researchers Create World's Smallest Atom-Memory Unit

Faster, smaller, smarter and more energy-efficient chips for everything from consumer electronics to big data to brain-inspired computing could soon be on the way after engineers at The University of Texas at Austin created the smallest memory device yet. And in the process, they figured out the physics dynamic that unlocks dense memory storage capabilities for these tiny devices.

24 Nov 2020