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UCLA Researchers Develop Efficient Method to Make Nanoelectronic and Nanobioelectronic Devices

Gardeners often use sheets of plastic with strategically placed holes to allow their plants to grow but keep weeds from taking root.

20 Jan 2016

Rice Researchers Explore How Graphene Oxide “Paper” Would Handle Shear Strain

The same slip-and-stick mechanism that leads to earthquakes is at work on the molecular level in nanoscale materials, where it determines the shear plasticity of the materials, according to scientists at Rice University and the State University of Campinas, Brazil.

20 Jan 2016

MIPT Researchers Find Solution to Overheating Problem of Active Plasmonic Components

Researchers from MIPT have found a solution to the problem of overheating of active plasmonic components. These components will be essential for high-speed data transfer within the optoelectronic microprocessors of the future, which will be able to function tens of thousands of times faster than the microprocessors currently in use today.

20 Jan 2016

New Light-Activated Nanotherapy Suggested for Terminating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have proposed a light-activated and adaptive nanotherapy. They propose that the new therapy will help humans to fight-off drug-resistant bacteria.

20 Jan 2016

Study Reveals Graphene’s Ability to Control Terahertz Laser Frequency

Researchers, headed by Sir Kostya Novoselov and Dr Subhasish Chakraborty from the University of Manchester, have discovered graphene’s ability to control terahertz laser frequency. This capability could open up new possibilities for terahertz lasers.

19 Jan 2016

New Graphene Discovery Could Help Save Millions of Lives

Investigations of graphene properties for their use as enterosorbents have been performed in S.M. Kirov Military Medicine Academy in Russia. The research has been carried out under the leadership of Kirsan - Petrik Laboratory of the Future transcorporation.

19 Jan 2016

New Method for Fast and Precise DNA Sequencing is Simulated

An innovative method for fast and precise gene sequencing has been proposed by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

18 Jan 2016

Breakthrough NovaSpider 3D Spinning Machine for Nanofibre Production

Disruption: rupture or sudden interruption. Disruptive Innovation: is just what the Science Research Centre NanoGUNE has done, creating the NovaSpider 3D spinning machine, a breakthrough which is set to revolutionise the way nanofibres are produced. Why? Simple: because this machine enables the user to produce 3D structures based on state-of-the-art nanofibres in his/her own lab.

18 Jan 2016

Exosomes Show Better Cancer-Killing Effect with Less Chemo

The cancer drug paclitaxel just got more effective. For the first time, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have packaged it in containers derived from a patient’s own immune system, protecting the drug from being destroyed by the body’s own defenses and bringing the entire payload to the tumor.

18 Jan 2016

Development of Novel Nanoprobe Leads to Greater Understanding of How Proteins Attach to DNA

New research directed by Dr Neil Kad, of the School of Biosciences, has led to the use of the nanoprobe to study how individual proteins interact with DNA. Invisible to the human eye, this tiny triangular probe can be captured using laser tweezers and then moved around inside a microscope chamber.

18 Jan 2016

Innovative Bubble-Pen Lithography Enables Efficient Handling of Nanoparticles

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have solved a problem in micro- and nanofabrication -- how to quickly, gently and precisely handle tiny particles -- that will allow researchers to more easily build tiny machines, biomedical sensors, optical computers, solar panels and other devices.

18 Jan 2016

Microbots controlled individually by Magnetic 'Mini Force Fields'

Image Credit: Purdue University image/David Cappelleri Researchers from Purdue University are using a technology likened to "mini force fields" to independently control individual microrobots operating w...

14 Jan 2016

Researchers Use Double-Layered Nanowire to Develop High-Speed Transistor Channel

A team of researchers, from the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics of National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the Georgia Institute of Technology, have developed a dual-layered nanowire that comprises a silicon (Si) shell and a germanium (Ge) core.

13 Jan 2016

Self-Assembled, Functionalized Nanospheres Enhance Catalytic Performance

A research team from the University of Amsterdam's Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) has discovered a new method to achieve improved catalytic performance. In this method, self-assembled and functionalized nanospheres are used as ‘nanocentrators,’ enabling a very efficient catalytic conversion.

13 Jan 2016

Oxygen Could Be Fine-Tuned to Enhance Optical Performance of Eu-Doped GaN Devices

Oxygen is indispensable to animal and plant life, but its presence in the wrong places can feed a fire and cause iron to rust.

13 Jan 2016

Nanotechnology News

UCLA Researchers Develop Efficient Method to Make Nanoelectronic and Nanobioelectronic Devices

Rice Researchers Explore How Graphene Oxide “Paper” Would Handle Shear Strain

MIPT Researchers Find Solution to Overheating Problem of Active Plasmonic Components

New Light-Activated Nanotherapy Suggested for Terminating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Study Reveals Graphene’s Ability to Control Terahertz Laser Frequency

New Graphene Discovery Could Help Save Millions of Lives

New Method for Fast and Precise DNA Sequencing is Simulated

Breakthrough NovaSpider 3D Spinning Machine for Nanofibre Production

Exosomes Show Better Cancer-Killing Effect with Less Chemo

Development of Novel Nanoprobe Leads to Greater Understanding of How Proteins Attach to DNA

Innovative Bubble-Pen Lithography Enables Efficient Handling of Nanoparticles

Microbots controlled individually by Magnetic 'Mini Force Fields'

Researchers Use Double-Layered Nanowire to Develop High-Speed Transistor Channel

Self-Assembled, Functionalized Nanospheres Enhance Catalytic Performance

Oxygen Could Be Fine-Tuned to Enhance Optical Performance of Eu-Doped GaN Devices

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