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Caltech Team Manages to “Paint” Smallest Mona Lisa Using DNA

Caltech's Paul Rothemund (BS '94)—currently research professor of bioengineering, computing and mathematical sciences, and computation and neural systems—developed a technique to fold a long strand of DNA into a prescribed shape way back in 2006.

7 Dec 2017

Innovative Strategy for Isolating Ring-Shaped Molecules from Linear Ones

The distinction between rings formed of the same material and linear chains is that although the molecular building blocks are similar, from a mathematical point of view, topologies of the two structures, that is, linear chain and ring, are distinct.

7 Dec 2017

Study Finds Purified Carbon Nanotubes Dispersed in Water Promoted Plant Growth

Researchers from the Rice University have discovered that when purified carbon nanotubes were introduced, it had an advantageous impact on early growth of wheatgrass. However, the same nanotubes were found to pose considerable harm when contaminants were present.

7 Dec 2017

Researchers Improve Supercapacitance of VGNs by Using Hybrid Electrolyte

Supercapacitors have the ability to store more energy than batteries and are favored in the place of batteries due to their potential to charge quickly, largely because of the vertical graphene nanosheets (VGNs) that are huge and located close to each other.

6 Dec 2017

Defect Densities in Graphene Layers Revealed Using New Technique

A Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) researcher has been taking part in the development of a technique that establishes the density of defects in two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials because of measurements of spatial coherence of light that strike them.

6 Dec 2017

Drug-Filled Nanoparticles Used to Target, Kill Endometrial Cancer in Lab Study

Tumor-targeting nanoparticles filled with a drug that makes cancer cells more defenseless to chemotherapy’s toxicity could be used to treat a destructive and frequently deadly form of endometrial cancer, according to new study by the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy.

5 Dec 2017

Subnanometer-Scale Channels in 2D Materials Hold Promise for Future Electronics

“Two-dimensional (2D) materials” — materials placed in layers that are just a few atoms thick — are favorable for high-performance electronics as well as flexible, transparent electronics that could be layered onto physical surfaces to render computing ubiquitous.

5 Dec 2017

Nanoparticle-Loaded Cells Could Help Improve Heart Function Following Myocardial Infarction

What is the best way to treat damaged cardiac tissue with replacement muscle cells following a heart attack? A team of researchers under the guidance of the University of Bonn is now presenting a novel approach on mice: muscle replacement cells loaded with magnetic nanoparticles will take over the function of the damaged tissue.

4 Dec 2017

Biotemplates Innovation Opens Path for Cost-Effective Nanobots

Although nanorobots have been a feature of science fiction stories for several years, its potential ranges from drug delivery and cancer diagnosis to tissue repair and more.

1 Dec 2017

Researchers Discover Nanomaterial’s Huge Cryptographic Potential

Researchers at New York University Tandon School of Engineering report a new group of unclonable cyber security primitives composed of an economical nanomaterial with the maximum possible level of structural randomness.

30 Nov 2017

Researchers Move Closer to Making Nanotransistors by Using Graphene

Although transistors developed by using carbon nanostructures seem to be a distant dream, they can become actuality in the near future. An international team of scientists in collaboration with Empa has at present been successful in developing nanotransistors by using graphene ribbons with a width of just few atoms.

30 Nov 2017

Adding Tin to Nanoparticle’s Germanium Core Allows Particles to Absorb More Light

Germanium nanoparticles with enhanced photoluminescence have been developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, making them potentially promising materials for solar cells and imaging probes.

30 Nov 2017

New Method for Delivering Chemotherapy Nanodrugs Reduces Side-Effects

A new method for delivering chemotherapy nanodrugs capable of increasing the drugs’ bioavailability and reducing side-effects has been developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers.

29 Nov 2017

Researchers Manage to Increase Surface Area of Nickel Nanoparticles for Catalysis

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University and the Air Force Research Laboratory have found out that a method meant to coat nickel nanoparticles with silica shells in reality fragments the material – forming a small core of oxidized nickel surrounded by smaller satellites embedded in a silica shell.

29 Nov 2017

Tiny Drug-Laden Nanoparticles Delivered to Seek and Destroy Cancer Stem Cells

University of Illinois researchers are now sending small drug-laden nanoparticles on a mission that aims at seeking and destroying cancer stem cells, the rare and elusive cells that can cause cancer to come back even after years have passed since the treatment of the first tumor.

28 Nov 2017