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March 30, 2016

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New Nanoparticle Reveals Cancer Treatment Effectiveness in Real Time

Mar. 28, 2016 — A new technique offers a new approach and a read out on the effectiveness of chemotherapy in as few as eight hours after treatment. The technology can also be used for ... read more

Revealing the Ion Transport at Nanoscale

Mar. 29, 2016 — A law of physics having to do with electron transport at nanoscale can also be analogously applied to the ion transport, new research shows. This discovery provides insight ... read more

Researchers Developed Manufacturing Method for Batteries With Organic Electrode Materials

Mar. 29, 2016 — With people wanting to use smaller electronic devices, smaller energy storage systems are needed. Researchers have ... read more

Engineering Black Gold, as Light as the Bones of Birds

Mar. 28, 2016 — A new material is more solid and 30 percent lighter than standard gold, scientists report. In their study, the team investigated grain boundaries in nanocrystalline np-Au and ... read more

Researchers Make Biosensor One Million Times More Sensitive

Mar. 28, 2016 — To provide oncologists a way to detect a single molecule of an enzyme produced by circulating cancer cells, physicists and engineers have developed an optical sensor, based on nanostructured ... read more

Multilingual Circuit: 'Optomechanical Transducer' Links Sound, Light, Radio Waves

Mar. 28, 2016 — A "piezo-optomechanical circuit" has been developed that converts signals among optical, acoustic and radio waves. A system ... read more

Nanocage Surfaces Get 'Makeover' at Room Temperature

Mar. 24, 2016 — Engineers have exploited preexisting crystal 'molds' to make copper oxide nanocrystals morph into hollow copper sulfide nanocages through anion exchange, and ultimately into ... read more

Newly Discovered Organic Nanowires Leave Humanmade Technologies in Their Dust

Mar. 24, 2016 — A microbial protein fiber newly discovered transports charges at rates high enough to be applied in humanmade ... read more

Cellular 'Light Switch' Analyzed Using Neutron Scattering

Mar. 23, 2016 — The internal movements of proteins can be important for their functionality; researchers are discovering more and more examples of this. Now, with the aid of neutron ... read more

No More Washing: Nano-Enhanced Textiles Clean Themselves With Light

Mar. 22, 2016 — Pioneering research paves way towards nano-enhanced textiles that can spontaneously clean themselves of stains and grime simply by being put under a light bulb or worn out in ... read more

Nanotechnology Brings 'E Whiskers' To Robots

Nano-Engineers Produce Liquid-Repellent Paper

Gerd Binnig Chemistry Under the Microscope

French Inventor Wins Award for Work on Nanocapsules

Mimicking a Blood Vessel to Create a 'Bridge' to Better Medicine and Precision Treatment

Mar. 29, 2016 — A technique has been developed to observe cell to cell interaction at the nanoscale under micro-fluid conditions. They have successfully applied the technique to the study of blood vessel ... read more

Effective Graphene Doping Depends on Substrate Material

Mar. 29, 2016 — Physicists have discovered unexpected effects in doped graphene. They investigated samples of the carbon compound enriched with the foreign atom nitrogen on various substrate materials. Unwanted ... read more

New Method to Identify Nanoparticles in Tissue May Shed Light on Their Health Impact

Mar. 26, 2016 — A team of researchers has demonstrated a pioneering method for the rapid visualization and identification of engineered nanoparticles in ... read more

Assembling Micro Components With Laser Tweezers

Mar. 23, 2016 — A team of engineers has developed microscopic components and assemble them to larger objects with the aid of laser tweezers. They are thus establishing methods that one day may be utilized to ... read more

Optimized Analytics Reduce 'False Negatives' in the Detection of Nanoparticles

Mar. 23, 2016 — A group of investigators has undertaken the task of reducing particles losses and avoid false negatives with regard to the detection of nanoparticles. Many everyday products and our environment ... read more

Printing Nanomaterials With Plasma

Mar. 22, 2016 — Printing has come a long way since the days of Johannes Gutenberg. Now, researchers have developed a new method that uses plasma to print nanomaterials onto a 3-D object or flexible surface, such as ... read more

Nanoparticle-Based Cancer Therapies Shown to Work in Humans

Mar. 21, 2016 — Nanoparticles can function to target tumors while avoiding adjacent healthy tissue in human cancer patients, new research indicates. The findings demonstrate that nanoparticle-based therapies can act ... read more

Team Explores Nanoscale Objects and Processes With Microwave Microscopy

Mar. 21, 2016 — Researchers have demonstrated a nondestructive way to observe nanoscale objects and processes in conditions simulating their normal operating environments. Their novel approach combines ultrathin ... read more

Solar Fuels: A Refined Protective Layer for the 'Artificial Leaf'

Mar. 21, 2016 — Researchers have developed a process for providing sensitive semiconductors for solar water splitting ("artificial leaves") with an organic, transparent protective layer. The extremely thin ... read more

Nano Plates as Catalysts for Solar Fuels

Mar. 18, 2016 — Solar fuels, clean fuels from sunlight, water and CO2, form an attractive way for storing solar energy in hydrogen or hydrocarbons, for example. The efficiency of this technology still needs a ... read more

New Technique for Rapidly Killing Bacteria Using Tiny Gold Disks and Light

Mar. 17, 2016 — A new technique for killing bacteria in seconds using highly porous gold nanodisks and light has been developed by researchers. The method could one day help hospitals treat some common infections ... read more

How Nanowires Can Be Formed

Mar. 17, 2016 — Researchers show how different arrangements of atoms can be combined into nanowires as they grow. Researchers learning to control the properties of materials this way can lead the way to more ... read more

Replacement for Silicon Devices Looms Big With New Discovery

Mar. 17, 2016 — Two-dimensional electronic devices could inch closer to their ultimate promise of low power, high efficiency and mechanical flexibility with a new processing ... read more

Capturing 'Black Gold' With Light

Mar. 17, 2016 — New research has found a simple and effective way of capturing graphenes and the toxins and contaminants they attract from water by using light. The findings could have significant implications for ... read more

New Fuel Materials Could Make Nuclear Reactors Safer

Mar. 16, 2016 — Nuclear power is an important energy source and is essential as a clean energy to reduce current carbon emissions from fossil fuels. However, many people feel the risk of nuclear accidents does not ... read more

Advanced Energy Storage Material Gets Unprecedented Nanoscale Analysis

Mar. 16, 2016 — Researchers have combined advanced in-situ microscopy and theoretical calculations to uncover important clues to the properties of a promising next-generation energy storage material for ... read more

New Microwave Imaging Approach Opens a Nanoscale View on Processes in Liquids

Mar. 15, 2016 — New microwave imaging approach trumps X-ray and electron-based methods that can damage delicate samples and muddy results. And it spares expensive equipment from being exposed to liquids, while ... read more

Nanostructures Promise Big Impact on Higher-Speed, Lower-Power Optical Devices

Mar. 15, 2016 — Physicists are seeing big potential in small semiconductor nanowires for improved optical infrared sensor ... read more

Incredible Images Reveal Bacteria Motor Parts in Unprecedented Detail

Mar. 15, 2016 — Nanoscopic 3-D imaging has revealed how different bacteria have geared their tiny propeller motors for a wide range of swimming ... read more

Eggshell Nanoparticles Could Lead to Expanded Use of Bioplastic in Packaging Materials

Mar. 15, 2016 — Placed on end, eggshells are as strong as the arches supporting ancient Roman aquaducts. Yet they readily crack in the middle, and once that happens, we discard them. But now scientists report that ... read more

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