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Vitamin C is Key to Protection of Exciting New Nanomaterial

July 9, 2019
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College Station, TX — In work that could open a floodgate of future applications for a new class of nanomaterials known as MXenes (pronounced “Maxines”), researchers from Texas A&M...

Research Provides Design Principles for Disease-Sensing Nanomaterials

February 21, 2019
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New York, NY — Scientists have long sought to develop drug therapies that can more precisely diagnose, target and effectively treat life-threatening illness such as cancer, cardiovascular and autoimmune...

Better Security Achieved with Randomly Generating Biological Encryption Keys

December 20, 2018
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State College, PA — Data breaches, hacked systems and hostage malware are frequently topics of evening news casts — including stories of department store, hospital, government and bank data leaking...

Research Team Develops New Way to Grow Blood Vessels

August 20, 2018
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College Station, TX — Formation of new blood vessels, a process also known as angiogenesis, is one of the major clinical challenges in wound healing and tissue implants. To address this issue, researchers...

Magnetic Antiparticles Open New Horizons for Information Technologies

August 15, 2018
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Uppsala, Sweden – Nanosized magnetic particles called skyrmions are considered highly promising candidates for new data storage and information technologies. Now, physicists have revealed new...

Scientists Squeeze Nanocrystals in a Liquid Droplet into a Solid-Like State and Back Again

August 8, 2018
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Berkeley, CA — A team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) found a way to make a liquid-like state behave more like a solid,...

New ‘Periodic Table’ for Nanomaterials

July 23, 2018
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Kyoto, Japan — The approach involves connecting the chemical properties of molecules with the nanostructures that form as a result of their interaction, which was developed by Daniel Packwood of Kyoto...

Brain Function Partly Replicated by Nanomaterials

July 13, 2018
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Osaka Prefecture, Japan — The brain requires surprisingly little energy to adapt to the environment to learn, make ambiguous recognitions, have high recognition ability and intelligence, and perform...

Nanofiber-Based wound Dressings Induce Production of Antimicrobial Peptide

July 5, 2018
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Corvallis, OR — Nanofiber-based wound dressings loaded with vitamin D spur the production of an antimicrobial peptide, a key step forward in the battle against surgical site infections, or SSIs.

New Bio-Based Nanomaterial Outperforms Spider Silk in Study

June 11, 2018
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Stockholm, Sweden — Researchers at KTH have produced a bio-based material that is reported to surpass the strength of all known bio-based materials whether fabricated or natural, including wood and...

Molecular Scaffolding Aids Construction at the Nanoscale

April 19, 2018
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Okinawa Prefecture, Japan — If you want to build a tall house, you need to use scaffolding. Professor Ye Zhang and colleagues at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST)...

Tool Based on Use of Carbon Nanoparticles Enables Detection of Antidepressants in Urine Samples

April 10, 2018
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Córdoba, Spain — A research group has designed a tool that enables detection of antidepressants in urine samples in low concentrations.

Diverse Metals Mix It Up in Novel Nanoparticles

April 5, 2018
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Baltimore, MD — Researchers have learned to combine up to eight different metals in a single tiny, uniformly mixed nanoparticle.

Materials Scientists Create New Nanomaterial from Natural Substances

February 27, 2018
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Jena, Germany — Be it in spider silk, wood, the spaces between body cells, in tendons, or as a natural sealant for small wounds: protein fibres are found virtually everywhere in nature.

Researchers Develop Alternative and Cheaper Catalyst Material for Water Electrolysis

February 13, 2018
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South Korea – A research team led by Professor Sangaraju Shanmugam of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST has developed highly efficient and ultra-durable core-shell nanostructured electrocatalyst...

Wearable Tissue Paper Sensors with Potential Applications in Healthcare, Robotics and Entertainment

February 13, 2018
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Seattle, WA – University of Washington engineers have turned tissue paper – similar to toilet tissue – into a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse, a blink of an eye and other human...

Synthetic Diamonds Developed to Help Study Materials Under Extreme Conditions

February 5, 2018
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Birmingham, AL – Using a nanocrystalline diamond built by plasma vapour deposition, Dr. Yogesh Vohra has already produced a pressure nearly two times greater than that found at the center of the...

Physicists Discover “Chiral Photons”, Could Enable Exotic Forms of Electronics

February 2, 2018
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Berkeley, CA – A research team from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found the first evidence that a shaking motion in the structure of an atomically...

Ultra-Thin Memory Storage Device for More Powerful Computing

January 17, 2018
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Austin, TX – A team of electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Peking University scientists, has developed the thinnest memory storage device with dense...

‘Quantum Material’ Shown to Have Shark-Like Ability to Detect Small Electrical Signals

December 19, 2017
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West Lafayette, IN – A “quantum material” that mimics a shark’s ability to detect the minute electric fields of small prey has been shown to perform well in ocean-like conditions,...

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