Nanotechnology News

July 19, 2024

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Enzyme-Powered 'Snot Bots' Help Deliver Drugs in Sticky Situations

July 17, 2024 — Snot might not be the first place you'd expect nanobots to be swimming around. But this slimy secretion exists in more places than just your nose and piles of dirty tissues -- it also lines and helps protect the lungs, stomach, intestines and eyes. ...

High-Speed Electron Camera Uncovers a New 'Light-Twisting' Behavior in an Ultrathin Material

July 10, 2024 — Using an instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED), researchers discovered how an ultrathin material can circularly polarize light. This discovery sets up a promising approach to ...

Single Atoms Show Their True Color

July 4, 2024 — A new technique reveals single atom misfits and could help design better semiconductors used in modern and future ...

Moving from the Visible to the Infrared: Developing High Quality Nanocrystals

July 9, 2024 — Awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, quantum dots have a wide variety of applications ranging from displays and LED lights to chemical reaction catalysis and bioimaging. These semiconductor ...

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Shining Light on Amyloid Architecture

July 19, 2024 — Researchers use microscopy to chart amyloid beta's underlying structure and yield insight into neurodegenerative ...

New Technique Pinpoints Nanoscale 'Hot Spots' in Electronics to Improve Their Longevity

July 17, 2024 — Researchers engineered a new technique to identify at the nanoscale level what components are overheating in electronics and causing their ...

Microbeads With Adaptable Fluorescent Colors from Visible Light to Near-Infrared

July 12, 2024 — Researchers have successfully developed an environmentally friendly, microspherical fluorescent material primarily made from citric acid. These ...

Researchers Show Promising Material for Solar Energy Gets Its Curious Boost from Entropy

July 10, 2024 — Researchers discovered a microscopic mechanism that solves in part the outstanding performance achieved by a new class of organic semiconductors ...

Detecting Defects in Tomorrow's Technology

July 9, 2024 — New research offers an enhanced understanding of common defects in transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) -- a potential replacement for silicon in computer chips -- and lays the foundation for ...

Researchers Fabricate Ultrastrong Aluminum Alloys for Additive Manufacturing

July 9, 2024 — Material engineers have created a patent-pending process to develop ultrahigh-strength aluminum alloys that are suitable for additive manufacturing ...

A Genetic Algorithm for Phononic Crystals

July 3, 2024 — Researchers tested phononic nanomaterials designed with an automated genetic algorithm that responded to light pulses with controlled vibrations. This work may help in the development of ...

A 2D Device for Quantum Cooling

July 5, 2024 — Engineers have created a device that can efficiently convert heat into electrical voltage at temperatures lower than that of outer space. The innovation could help overcome a significant obstacle to ...

Nanorobot With Hidden Weapon Kills Cancer Cells

July 1, 2024 — Researchers have developed nanorobots that kill cancer cells in mice. The robot's weapon is hidden in a nanostructure and is exposed only in the tumour microenvironment, sparing healthy ...

Revealing the Dynamic Choreography Inside Multilayer Vesicles

June 26, 2024 — Our cells and the machinery inside them are engaged in a constant dance. This dance involves some surprisingly complicated choreography within the lipid bilayers that comprise cell membranes and ...

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Progress in Development of a New High-Tech Kidney Disease Urine Test

July 9, 2024 — Development of a new way to accurately measure human serum albumin (HSA) levels in people with chronic kidney disease has progressed in recent ...

Soft, Stretchy Electrode Simulates Touch Sensations Using Electrical Signals

June 28, 2024 — A team of researchers has developed a soft, stretchy electronic device capable of simulating the feeling of pressure or vibration when worn on the skin. This device represents a step towards creating ...

The Future of Metals Research With Artificial Intelligence

June 27, 2024 — A research team has developed an optimal artificial intelligence model to predict the yield strength of various metals, effectively addressing traditional cost and time ...

Materials Research Revolutionized by a Small Change

June 27, 2024 — Scientists develop the next generation of highly efficient memory materials with atom-level ...

Microrobot-Packed Pill Shows Promise for Treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Mice

June 26, 2024 — Engineers have developed a pill that releases microscopic robots, or microrobots, into the colon to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The experimental treatment, given orally, has shown success ...

A New Study Highlights Potential of Ultrafast Laser Processing for Next-Gen Devices

June 26, 2024 — A new study uncovers the remarkable potential of ultrafast lasers that could provide innovative solutions in 2D materials processing for many technology developers such as high-speed photodetectors, ...

Researchers Film Energy Materials as They Form

June 18, 2024 — Shooting a movie in the lab requires special equipment. Especially when the actors are molecules -- invisible to the naked eye -- reacting with each other. 'Imagine trying to film tiny lava ...

Novel Method for Measuring Nano/microplastic Concentrations in Soil Using Spectroscopy

June 17, 2024 — Current techniques for measuring nano/microplastic (N/MP) concentrations in soil require the soil organic matter content to be separated and have limited resolution for analyzing N/MPs sized <1 m. ...

Golden Ball Mills as Green Catalysts

June 17, 2024 — A gold-coated milling vessel for ball mills proved to be a real marvel: without any solvents or environmentally harmful chemicals, the team was able to use it to convert alcohols into aldehydes. The ...

Nano-Immunotherapy Developed to Improve Lung Cancer Treatment

June 14, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new nanomedicine therapy that delivers anticancer drugs to lung cancer cells and enhances the immune system's ability to fight cancer. The team showed promising ...

Self-Assembling and Disassembling Swarm Molecular Robots Via DNA Molecular Controller

June 14, 2024 — Researchers have succeeded in developing a DNA-based molecular controller. Crucially, this controller enables the autonomous assembly and disassembly of molecular robots, as opposed to manually ...

Nanosized Blocks Spontaneously Assemble in Water to Create Tiny Floating Checkerboards

June 13, 2024 — Researchers have engineered nanosized cubes that spontaneously form a two-dimensional checkerboard pattern when dropped on the surface of water. The work presents a simple approach to create complex ...

Swimming Microrobots Deliver Cancer-Fighting Drugs to Metastatic Lung Tumors in Mice

June 12, 2024 — Engineers have developed microscopic robots, known as microrobots, capable of swimming through the lungs to deliver cancer-fighting medication directly to metastatic tumors. This approach has shown ...

Uncovering the Nature of Emergent Magnetic Monopoles

June 12, 2024 — To understand the unique physical phenomena associated with the properties of magnetic hedgehogs and antihedgehogs, which behave as virtual magnetic monopoles and antimonopoles respectively, it is ...

Quantum Dots and Metasurfaces: Deep Connections in the Nano World

June 12, 2024 — A team has developed printable, highly efficient light-emitting ...

Splitting Hairs: Science of Biomechanics to Understand of Bad Hair Days

June 10, 2024 — Academics are often accused of 'splitting hairs', but a team has now devised a machine to do just that. We all have a bad hair day from time to time, and split ends are a common problem. ...

Nanoparticles: Risk for Babies in the Womb

June 6, 2024 — Little is yet known about the health effects of nanoparticles on pregnancy. An interdisciplinary team is currently analyzing the risks for babies in the womb. Using a lab model, the researchers were ...

Better Farming Through Nanotechnology

June 6, 2024 — Advanced technologies enable the controlled release of medicine to specific cells in the body. Scientists argue these same technologies must be applied to agriculture if growers are to meet ...

Crystal Engineering Modifies 2D Metal Halide Perovskites Into 1D Nanowires

June 6, 2024 — Engineers have created a patent-pending method that creates layered perovskite nanowires with exceptionally well-defined and flexible cavities that exhibit a wide range of unusual optical properties ...

Enhancing Superconductivity of Graphene-Calcium Superconductors

June 5, 2024 — Researchers experimentally investigate the impact of introducing high-density calcium on the superconductivity of calcium-intercalated bilayer ...