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Nanoscale Virus Altered to Deliver Peptide Drugs to Cells

Researchers exploring a viral protein have discovered a path toward virus-like, nanoscale devices that may be capable of supplying drugs to cells.

10 Jan 2018

Scientists Studying Spin Reveal Surprising Results

Physicists in America are using billiards and a bowling ball to demonstrate the unexpected results obtained while investigating the spin of different sized nuclei. Their work may offer new insight into the mechanisms affecting particle production in proton-ion collisions.

By Kerry Taylor-Smith 9 Jan 2018

Using Silver Nanoparticles to Enhance Raman Spectroscopy

By organizing silver nanoparticles on nanowires in specific arrangements, molecular detection of Raman spectroscopy at low concentrations has been enhanced.

By Brett Smith 8 Jan 2018

Researchers Find a Way to Clean Carbon Nanotubes to Boost Conductivity

Researchers from Rice and Swansea universities have discovered a method to eliminate contaminants from nanotubes to increase their application.

8 Jan 2018

Researchers Develop Macrophage Nanosponges to Control Sepsis

Researchers created Macrophage “nanosponges”, which are capable of safely absorbing and removing molecules from the bloodstream.

8 Jan 2018

Ground-Breaking Metalens Paves Way for New Possibilities in Virtual and Augmented Reality

Metalenses are flat surfaces using nanostructures for the purpose of focusing light, and they look propitious to transform the field of optics by substituting the curved, bulky lenses adopted at present in optical devices with a simple, flat surface. However, the metalenses are restricted by the spectrum of light they can focus optimally.

5 Jan 2018

Strategy for Synthesizing Low-Dimensional Polyion Complex Nanomaterials with Various Morphologies

Artificial polyelectrolytes can copy interactions of biological macromolecules and could become platforms for delivering proteins, drugs, or nucleic acids.

5 Jan 2018

Study Emphasizes Importance of Clean Carbon Nanotubes to Maximize Their Usefulness

Carbon nanotubes need to be as clean as possible to maximize usefulness in nanoscale devices. Contact effects may restrict how tiny nano devices can be.

5 Jan 2018

Silver Nanoparticles Used to Enhance Raman Signals by Hundred Thousand Times

Researchers have enhanced molecular detection at low concentration levels by positioning nanoparticles on nanowires in order to improve Raman spectroscopy.

4 Jan 2018

Innovative Nanomedicine Arrests Advancement of Pancreatic Cancer in Mouse

Extended pancreatic cancer survival is enabled by an inverse correlation between oncogenes and signatures of an oncosuppressor microRNA.

4 Jan 2018

‘Metalens’ can Focus the Entire Rainbow on a Single Point

Expected to revolutionize imaging and optical technology, so-called “metalenses” are lenses with sub-wavelength features custom designed to manipulate light in extremely precise ways.

By Brett Smith 2 Jan 2018

Scientists Use Electron Microscopy to Study Magnetic Fields of Bacterial Cells and Nano-Objects

A research team led by a scientist from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has demonstrated for the first time that the magnetic fields of bacterial cells and magnetic nano-objects in liquid can be studied at high resolution using electron microscopy.

22 Dec 2017