Scientists have devised a new technique to decorate gold nanoparticles with a protein of choice so they can be used to tailor drug to more accurately target an area on the body, such as a cancer tumour.
Apr 23rd, 2018
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On the shape of the 'petal' for the dissipation curve.
Apr 20th, 2018
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Oil companies use nanotechnology to extract resources with the least possible disruption of the environment.
Apr 20th, 2018
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Researchers capture nanoscale images of magnetic domains with laser as ultrashort flash.
Apr 20th, 2018
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Technique would allow addition of optical communication components to existing chips with little modification of their designs.
Apr 20th, 2018
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The brittle material can turn flexible when made into ultrafine nanoneedles, researchers find.
Apr 20th, 2018
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Researchers use a high-resolution 3D printing process to produce tiny beam-shaping elements directly on optical microchips or fibers and, hence, enable low-loss coupling.
Apr 20th, 2018
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A model of the interactions between magnetic vortices and material impurities could aid the development of low-power magnetic memories.
Apr 20th, 2018
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Electricity can be used to control magnetic patterns in an alloy, opening up the possibility of using them in high-performance devices.
Apr 20th, 2018
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A remote command could one day send immune cells on a rampage against a malignant tumor. The ability to mobilize, from outside the body, targeted cancer immunotherapy inside the body has taken a step closer to becoming reality.
Apr 20th, 2018
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Researchers image single doped fullerene molecules using scanning tunneling microscopy.
Apr 20th, 2018
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Scientists have been able to confine light down to a space one atom thick in dimension, the smallest confinement ever possible.
Apr 19th, 2018
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An experiment that, by design, was not supposed to turn up anything of note instead produced a 'bewildering' surprise, according to the scientists who made the discovery: a new way of creating gold nanoparticles and nanowires using water droplets.
Apr 19th, 2018
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Researchers have created a biodegradable composite made of silk fibers that can be used to repair broken load-bearing bones without the complications sometimes presented by other materials.
Apr 19th, 2018
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Researchers have made a significant breakthrough in computational science by combining atomic-level modelling and machine learning. For the first time, the method has been used to realistically model how an amorphous material is formed at the atomic level.
Apr 19th, 2018
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Perfection is not everything, according to an international team of researchers whose 2-D materials study shows that defects can enhance a material's physical, electrochemical, magnetic, energy and catalytic properties.
Apr 19th, 2018
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