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Research Paves the Way Toward Creating Nano-Sensors for Cells

The article represents the transmission electron microscopy and flow cytometry study of A-549 cellular uptake of Pr3+:LaF3 nanoparticles. The Pr3+:LaF3 nanoparticles are promising platforms for cell nano-sensors.

19 Jul 2021

New Nanotechnology Could Help Generate Healthy Electricity in the Human Body

A new nanotechnology development by an international research team led by Tel Aviv University researchers will make it possible to generate electric currents and voltage within the human body through the activation of various organs.

7 Jul 2021

New Technique 'Upcycles' Waste Hop Stem into Cellulose Nanofibers

Some three quarters of the biomass in hop plants used in beer-making ends up in landfills. But a group of Japanese researchers has developed a technique that 'upcycles' that waste hop into cellulose nanofibers (CNFs).

5 Jul 2021

Tiny "Nanoswimmers" Could be Used in Everything from Industrial Clean-Ups to Medication Delivery

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered that minuscule, self-propelled particles called "nanoswimmers" can escape from mazes as much as 20 times faster than other, passive particles, paving the way for their use in everything from industrial clean-ups to medication delivery.

30 Jun 2021

Silver Nanoparticles Inhibit COVID-19 Infection

An international team of scientists from institutions in Mexico, Spain, and Russia has released promising findings from its study investigating the impact of silver nanoparticles on the transmission of COVID-19.

4 Jun 2021

Using Living Cells as Nano-3D Printers for the Synthesis of Bundled Protein Filaments

Proteins are undoubtedly some of the most fascinating biomolecules, and they perform many of the functions that (in our eyes) separate life from inanimate matter.

27 Apr 2021

Researchers Use Gold Nanoparticles to 'Seek Out' Bone Stem Cells

Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of using nanomaterials to identify and enrich skeletal stem cells - a discovery which could eventually lead to new treatments for major bone fractures and the repair of lost or damaged bone.

30 Mar 2021

Wafer-Thin Stiff Nanopaper Becomes Soft at the Push of a Button

Materials science likes to take nature and the special properties of living beings that could potentially be transferred to materials as a model. A research team led by chemist Professor Andreas Walther of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has succeeded in endowing materials with a bioinspired property: Wafer-thin stiff nanopaper instantly becomes soft and elastic at the push of a button.

25 Mar 2021