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UrduIn a paper published in NANO , a team of researchers from Jiangnan University, China have prepared a convenient sensing platform which can detect microRNA-205 (MiR-205) with high sensitivity and excellent selectivity using TpTta-COF nanosheet and fluorescent oligonucleotide probes. Nasopharyngeal…
Tag: NANOTECHNOLOGY/MICROMACHINES
Particles with ‘eyes’ allow a closer look at rotational dynamics
Tokyo, Japan – Colloids–mixtures of particles made from one substance, dispersed in another substance–crop up in numerous areas of everyday life, including cosmetics, food and dyes, and form important systems within our bodies. Understanding the behavior of colloids therefore has…
Machine learning can now reduce worry about nanoparticles in food
Researchers at Texas A&M can predict whether metallic nanoparticles in soil are likely to be absorbed by plants, which could cause toxicity
Genetically engineered nanoparticle delivers dexamethasone directly to inflamed lungs
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed immune cell-mimicking nanoparticles that target inflammation in the lungs and deliver drugs directly where they’re needed. As a proof of concept, the researchers filled the nanoparticles with the drug dexamethasone…
Let there be light! New tech to revolutionize night vision
Ultra-thin film could one day be used on reading glasses
Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists announces the finalists of 2021
The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences today named 31 Finalists for the world’s largest unrestricted prize honoring early-career scientists and engineers
Infrared imaging by ultrathin nanocrystal layers
Researchers demonstrate the conversion of infrared images to the visible, using ultrathin and transparent semiconductor nanocrystals
Kirigami-inspired stent offers new drug delivery method for tubular organs
Stretchable, snakeskin-like design features pop-out needles to allow circumferential and longitudinal delivery of therapeutics in challenging situations
One step towards a daily-use deep UV light source for sterilization and disinfection
Researchers construct a gallium nitride optical microcavity with high reflectivity distributed Bragg reflectors to double the frequency of incoming light, which may be utilized for a safe and practical deep UV light source with bactericidal effects
A frozen leap forward
Novel cryopreservation methods enable long-term storage and worldwide distribution of a cellular therapy for age-related macular degeneration
Say goodbye to your camera bump: uOttawa researchers miniaturize optics by discovering counterpart to lens
The concept of “spaceplate” is a new avenue for manipulating light that could lead to paper thin cameras, telescopes
Researchers turned transparent calcite into artificial gold
Breakthrough in metamaterials: for the first time in the world, researchers at Tel Aviv University developed an innovative nanotechnology that transforms a transparent calcite nanoparticle into a sparkling gold-like particle. In other words, they turned the transparent particle into a…
New light on making two-dimensional polymers
Tailored 2D-materials by self organization and photopolymerization
Australian researchers create quantum microscope that can see the impossible
In a major scientific leap, University of Queensland researchers have created a quantum microscope that can reveal biological structures that would otherwise be impossible to see. This paves the way for applications in biotechnology, and could extend far beyond this…
Developing the novel joint technique for copper alloy
This highly contributes to producing the efficient heat removal component for fusion reactor
Bacteria-sized robots take on microplastics and win by breaking them down
Small pieces of plastic are everywhere, stretching from urban environments to pristine wilderness. Left to their own devices, it can take hundreds of years for them to degrade completely. Catalysts activated by sunlight could speed up the process, but getting…
Honeybees’ hairy abdomens show how to save energy, reduce wear on materials
Watching honeybees buzz among flowers, it’s easy to see how the expression “busy as a bee” arose. One of many movements a bee’s body makes is the repetitive curving and straightening of its abdomen. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied…
Machine learning reduces microscope data processing time from months to just seconds
Ever since the world’s first ever microscope was invented in 1590 by Hans and Zacharias Janssen –a Dutch father and son– our curiosity for what goes on at the tiniest scales has led to development of increasingly powerful devices. Fast…
Online ‘library of properties’ helps to create safer nanomaterials
Researchers have developed a ‘library of properties’ to help identify the environmental impact of nanomaterials faster and more cost effectively. Whilst nanomaterials have benefited a wide range of industries and revolutionised everyday life, there are concerns over potential adverse effects…
Control over water friction with 2D materials points to ‘smart membranes’
Dramatic decrease in friction when water is passed through nanoscale capillaries made of graphene
UMass Amherst researchers create intelligent electronic microsystems from green material
A research team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has created an electronic microsystem that can intelligently respond to information inputs without any external energy input, much like a self-autonomous living organism. The microsystem is constructed from a novel type…
Tiny particles power chemical reactions
A new material made from carbon nanotubes can generate electricity by scavenging energy from its environment
New research in protein sequencing poised to transform medicine
While DNA provides the genetic recipe book for biological form and function, it is the job of the body’s proteins to carry out the complex commands dictated by DNA’s genetic code. Stuart Lindsay, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at…
New drug-formulation method may lead to smaller pills
Chemical engineers have found a way to load more drug into a tablet, which could then be made smaller and easier to swallow
Atom swapping could lead to ultra-bright, flexible next generation LEDs
An international group of researchers has developed a new technique that could be used to make more efficient low-cost light-emitting materials which are flexible and can be printed using ink-jet techniques. The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge and…
Magnetism drives metals to insulators in new experiment
Study provides new tools to probe novel spintronic devices
UMass Amherst food scientists aim to make plant-based protein tastier and healthier
New journal paper explores the scientific complexities
Engineers create a programmable fiber
In a first, the digital fiber contains memory, temperature sensors, and a trained neural network program for inferring physical activity
Scientists from NTU and Rice University uncover secret behind one of the world’s toughest materials
A team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) and Rice University in the US, has uncovered the key to the outstanding toughness of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). h-BN can withstand ten times the amount of force that…
Filter membrane renders viruses harmless
Viruses can spread not only via droplets or aerosols like the new coronavirus, but in water, too. In fact, some potentially dangerous pathogens of gastrointestinal diseases are water-borne viruses. To date, such viruses have been removed from water using nanofiltration…
World’s smallest, best acoustic amplifier emerges from 50-year-old hypothesis
Acousto-electric devices reveal new road to miniaturizing wireless tech
Shining light on two-dimensional magnets
New research paves the way to hyper-efficient data storage
New nanoparticle design paves way for improved detection of tumors
Nano-sized particles have been engineered in a new way to improve detection of tumors within the body and in biopsy tissue, a research team in Sweden reports. The advance could enable identifying early stage tumors with lower doses of radiation.…
Hexagonal boron nitride’s remarkable toughness unmasked
2D material resists cracking and description by century-old theory of fracture mechanics
Lighting Hydrogels Via Nanomaterials
Texas A&M associate professor Akhilesh Gaharwar and graduate student Patrick Lee are developing a new class of hydrogels that can leverage light for drug delivery and regenerative medicine treatments.
Printing a better microgrid
New research shows particle-free silver microgrid outperforms other flexible high-performance transparent electrodes
DNA circuits
Changing the shape of soft matter using logic circuits made from DNA
Innovative technologies to develop cancer and virus biomarkers
Politecnico di Torino’s ANFIBIO project will develop a set of technologies and advanced sensors to detect and quantify cancer and viral bio-markers in bodily fluids, making simpler, faster and more economical the diagnosis of many diseases
Why deep freezing iron-based materials makes them both magnetic and superconducting
Physicists at the University of Bath in the UK have uncovered a new mechanism for enabling magnetism and superconductivity to co-exist in the same material.
Self-aware materials build the foundation for living structures
New research in Nano Energy introduces revolutionary scalable material that senses and powers itself
A new direction of topological research is ready for take off
In a joint effort, ct.qmat scientists from Dresden, Rostock, and Würzburg have accomplished non-Hermitian topological states of matter in topolectric circuits. The latter acronym refers to topological and electrical, giving a name to the realization of synthetic topological matter in…
New ‘Swiss Army knife’ cleans up water pollution
First used to soak up oil in water, new sponge sequesters excess phosphate from water
Watch me move it, move it: Gliding structure in Mycoplasma mobile revealed
Researchers detect internal motor structure of Mycoplasma mobile using high-speed atomic force microscopy
Using the environment to control quantum devices
A deeper understanding of how the environment impacts quantum behaviour is bringing quantum devices one step closer to widespread adoption.
A novel nitrogen-doped dual-emission carbon dots as an effective fluorescent probe for ratiometric detection dopamine
How to construct the dual emission nitrogen-doped carbon dots (CDs) by a simple method? Professor Lili Ren with her collaborators proposed a new strategy to prepare such materials which were used to the detection of dopamine. The traditional ratiometric fluorescence…
Nanofibrous filters for PM2.5 filtration
In a paper published in NANO , the author reviewed many kinds of nanofibrous filters including the component, preparation process, and application performances to provide directional guidance for improvement of the air purification field. Poor air quality is worldwide recognized…
Peptide nanoparticles marked for in vitro visualization
A joint research by Kazan Federal University and Chinese Academy Sciences has been published in Chemical Engineering Journal.
UTSA researchers among collaborative improving computer vision for AI
MAY 26, 2021 — Researchers from UTSA, the University of Central Florida (UCF), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and SRI International have developed a new method that improves how artificial intelligence learns to see. Led by Sumit Jha, professor…
Reaping the benefits of noise
AMOLF scientists unravel noise-assisted signal amplification in systems with memory
Scientists overhear two atoms chatting
How materials behave depends on the interactions between countless atoms. You could see this as a giant group chat in which atoms are continuously exchanging quantum information. Researchers from Delft University of Technology in collaboration with RWTH Aachen University and…