Tag: Nanomaterials

LED Lights Developed From Rice Husks

April 12, 2022
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Hiroshima, Japan — Milling rice to separate the grain from the husks produces about 100 million tons of rice husk waste globally each year. Scientists searching for a scalable method to fabricate quantum...

Novel Platform Purifies Oil-Contaminated Seawater

March 23, 2022
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Beijing, China — The United Nations’ most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report paints a bleak picture for the world’s water supply: Of the 7.8 billion people on Earth, about 4 billion...

Smart Transformable Nanoparticles Promise Advances in Tumour Diagnoses, Treatment

December 8, 2021
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Washington, DC — For more than three decades, biomedical nanomaterials have been successfully developed for the benefit of theranostics — a compound term referring to the diagnoses and treatment...

Going for Gold to Reduce Antibiotic Resistance

November 10, 2021
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Leeds, UK — Tiny particles of gold could be the new weapon in the fight against bacterial antibiotic resistance, according to research published Nov. 8 in the journal Chemical Science. Scientists...

Researchers Explain How Nanomaterial Aids Antibody Response, Study It as Antibody Factory

September 28, 2021
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Ames, IA — The researchers’ original task was to figure out how certain polymer nanomaterials provided for a low-inflammatory immune response and yet were able to boost antibody production as part...

Researchers Create Water-Repellent Nanomaterial Inspired by Nature

September 9, 2021
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Orlando, FL — A team of researchers at the University of Central Florida have created a new nanomaterial that repels water and can stay dry even when submerged underwater. The discovery could open...

Lighting Hydrogels Via Nanomaterials

June 3, 2021
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College Station, TX — Hydrogels are commonly used inside the body to help in tissue regeneration and drug delivery. However, once inside, they can be challenging to control for optimal use. A team...

New Nano Drug Candidate Kills Aggressive Breast Cancer Cells

July 21, 2020
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Fayetteville, AR — Researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a new nano drug candidate that kills triple negative breast cancer cells. Triple negative breast cancer is one of the...

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)...

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.

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