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Study Offers New Strategy to Synthesize Crystalline Bulk Graphene Nanoribbons

New work from a team of scientists led by Drs. Kuo Li and Haiyan Zheng from the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research collaborated with Dr. Jing Ju from Peking University found pressure-induced polymerization of 1,4-diphenylbutadiyne produces crystalline graphitic nanoribbons.

14 Oct 2020

Developing a Multi-Functional Nano-Vaccine to Fight Toxoplasmosis

Fighting clever parasites requires smart vaccines that can trigger critical immune responses. A University of Chicago-based research team has found a novel way to do that.

14 Oct 2020

Nanomotors Offer a Promising Solution for Biomedical and Environmental Applications

A new study has resolved one of the major barriers relating to the use of nanorobots driven by lipases—enzymes that play crucial roles in the digestion process by breaking down fats in foods to aid their absorption.

14 Oct 2020

Simultaneous Detection, Sizing and Chemical Identification of Nanoplastic Mixtures

From Postnova Analytics GmbH 14 Oct 2020

Diamond-Studded Silk Wound Dressing Detects Infection and Improves Healing

Scientists have developed a next generation wound dressing that can detect infection and improve healing in burns, skin grafts and chronic wounds.

14 Oct 2020

New 2D Nanomaterial Acts as a Temperature Sensor

Researchers at KAUST have developed a layered material that can serve as an accurate temperature sensor by exploiting the same principle used in biological ion channels.

13 Oct 2020

Surface Phonon-Polaritons can Conduct Heat Away from Nanostructured Devices

The continuing progress in miniaturization of silicon microelectronic and photonic devices is causing cooling of the device structures to become increasingly challenging.

13 Oct 2020

Understanding HCPCD to Help Develop At-Home COVID-19 Tests

A new study has highlighted the potential to develop new, disposable point-of-care and at-home COVID-19 tests.

By Sarah Moore 12 Oct 2020

Reducing Harvest Period of Stem Cell Sheets with PNIPAAm Nanotopography

Stem cells are cell factories that constantly divide themselves to create new cells. Implanting stem cells in damaged organs can regenerate new tissues.

9 Oct 2020

Graphene Detector Reveals THz Light’s Polarization

Physicists have created a broadband detector of terahertz radiation based on graphene. The device has potential for applications in communication and next-generation information transmission systems, security and medical equipment. The study came out in ACS Nano Letters.

9 Oct 2020

Scientists Develop Nanoparticle Carriers to Treat Connective Tissue Disorders

Professor Kristi Kiick from the University of Delaware (UD) is heading a collaborative study to develop new drug delivery systems that can enhance treatment for various diseases, like osteoarthritis or the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis, that impact connective tissues.

9 Oct 2020

New Lab-on-a-Chip can Help Reduce Resistance to Cancer Therapies

Computer scientists, electrical engineers, and biomedical engineers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a new lab-on-a-chip that can help examine tumor heterogeneity to decrease resistance to cancer treatments.

8 Oct 2020

Integrating 2D Material into Specially Developed Glass Fibers

At the latest since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for research on graphene in 2010, 2D materials - nanosheets with atomic thickness - have been a hot topic in science.

8 Oct 2020

Engineers Develop Plant-Based Spray for Use in Energy Devices and N95 Masks

Engineers have developed a new method to spray very thin wires produced from a plant-based material.

8 Oct 2020

The Promising Properties of 4D Nanomaterials for Tumor Treatment Revealed in a Study Published in ACS Nano

A research team of the University of Padua publishes an article in "ACS Nano" which explains how inorganic nanoparticles based on an alloy of gold and iron, two biocompatible elements and therefore particularly suitable for applications in the biomedical field, are able to biodegrade spontaneously in living organisms.

8 Oct 2020