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Scientists Use Magnetic Nanoclusters to Destroy Cancer with Heat

Oregon State University researchers have developed a better technique for using magnetic nanoclusters to destroy difficult-to-reach tumors.

27 Jun 2019

Semiconductor Nanowires can be Tuned Over Wide Energy Ranges

Apart from speeding up computers, nanowires have the potential to make solar cells more efficient and LEDs more colorful. That is, if the extremely small semiconductors are able to transform electric energy into light energy, and vice versa, at the correct wavelengths.

27 Jun 2019

Minute Nanoclusters and Carbon Quantum Dots Exhibit Potential for Acute Kidney Injury Treatment

Acute kidney injury (AKI) frequently complicates the treatment results of hospitalized patients, resulting in unsafe levels of hazardous chemicals collecting in the blood and causing many fatalities every year.

26 Jun 2019

Cost-Effective, Eco-Friendly Method to Produce Graphene from Eucalyptus Trees

Wonder material, graphene is the strongest and thinnest material known to man. It is also flexible, transparent, and conducts electricity and heat 10 times more efficiently than copper, making it suitable for everything from flexible nanoelectronics to optimized fuel cells.

25 Jun 2019

Phosphorus-Based Nanomaterial for Sustainable and Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells

An innovative phosphorus-based nanomaterial called phosphorene is turning out to be an important ingredient for efficient and more sustainable state-of-the-art perovskite solar cells (PSCs).

24 Jun 2019

Nanoemulsions Show Promise for Delivering Topical Medications

Chemical engineers at MIT have developed a novel method for producing extremely small droplets of a liquid suspended inside another liquid, referred to as nanoemulsions.

24 Jun 2019

Multi-Wavelength Instrument Improves Nanoparticle Analysis Specificity

Analytik has launched the next generation ZetaView® QUATT, with a multi-wavelength video tracking microscope for rapid analysis of size, concentration, fluorescence, electrophoretic mobility and sub-populations of individual nanoparticles.

From Analytik Ltd 24 Jun 2019

Advanced NMR Exposes New Facts About Nanoparticle Structures

At the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, advanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods have exposed unexpected details about the structure of a core group of materials in nanotechnology — mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) — and the placement of their active chemical sites.

21 Jun 2019

Nanoparticles Acting like Electrons Could Lead to Novel Materials Design

It is not an electron. However, it does behave like one.

21 Jun 2019

Innovative Method to Detect Magnetic Fields of Nanoscale Particles

As if they were bubbles growing in a recently-opened champagne bottle, minute circular regions of magnetism can be quickly enlarged to offer a precise technique of measuring the magnetic properties of nanoparticles.

11 Jun 2019