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Researchers Develop Nano-Watch with Stable Hands

An international team from the Universities of Vienna, Tel Aviv and Duisburg-Essen has developed a nanomechanical hand to show the time of an electronic clock, by spinning a tiny cylinder using light.

22 Nov 2017

Researchers Develop New Method to Write Magnetic Information on Nanowires

Researchers from Imperial College London have developed a new method to write desired magnetic patterns onto nanowires, which could help computers to imitate the way human brain processes information. This new way to write magnetic information could present new opportunities for hardware neural networks.

21 Nov 2017

Northwestern Team Captures Collision and Fusion of Organic Nanoparticles for First Time

For the first time, researchers from the Northwestern University research team have captured the collision and fusing of organic nanoparticles on video.

17 Nov 2017

Russian Chemists Convert Titanium Nanoparticles into an Efficient Weapon Against Pollution

Researchers from RUDN University (Russia) have invented a new method for converting titanium nanoparticles into an efficient substance capable of removing toxic phenol present in water, even in visible light. The results of the study have been reported in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics.

14 Nov 2017

Theranostic Nanoparticles can Provide Early Detection of Diseases

While the simplest definition of a “theranostic” nanoparticle is a nanoparticle that merely has a therapeutic moiety and imaging or diagnostic moiety on the same particle, the authors of a review article published in SLAS Technology pay more attention to and highlight the platforms where disease monitoring and self-reporting is possible in real-time because of the synergistic nature of the components present on the theranostic particles.

10 Nov 2017

New Clothing Material Could Become Personal Cooling Units

People coming in from the heat experience a comfortable feeling in air-conditioned buildings. However, this comfort can be created only if an increased amount of money is spent, and the environment also experiences greenhouse gas emissions along with increased energy bills.

9 Nov 2017

Researchers Find Way to Expand Printable Color Spectrum with Novel Nanostructure System

Printed items, from textbooks to artwork to newspapers, are a part of everyday life. However, the ink used in printers today is limited in resolution and colors.

9 Nov 2017

Scientists Achieve Environment-Friendly Synthesis of Metal-Sulfide Nanoparticles

Although nanoparticles with controllable size and composition find wider application in optical, electrical, and chemical devices, they ought to be developed in a cost-efficient and safe manner.

7 Nov 2017

Researchers Find a Multifaceted Nanomaterial in Dendritic Fibrous Nanosilica

The use of dendritic fibrous nanosilica, or DFNS, has increased in many scientific fields such as solar energy harvesting (solar cells, photocatalysis, etc.), catalysis, surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based ultra-sensitive sensors, energy storage, CO2 capture, biomedical applications (protein and gene delivery, photothermal ablation, drug delivery, bioimaging, Ayurvedic and radiotherapeutics drug delivery, etc.), and self-cleaning antireflective coatings.

6 Nov 2017

Ultrafast Laser for Shaping Gold Nanoparticles that Might be Used in Biomedicine

An innovative laser system that can be used to shape nanometric gold particles, measuring one-millionths of a millimeter, to enhance their characteristics in photonics and biomedicine has been developed through a research conducted at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). The study has now been reported in the Science journal.

6 Nov 2017