Day: October 14, 2019

Home > News > Nanoparticles Inside Samples of Mucus to Measure COPD Development October 4th, 2019 Nanoparticles Inside Samples of Mucus to Measure COPD Development Abstract:Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have now used special nanoparticles to test the mucus of COPD patients, which may be an excellent biomarker for COPD...

Oct 14, 2019 (Nanowerk News) The search for effective biological tools is a marathon, not a sprint, even when the distances are on the microscale. A discovery at Rice University on how engineered communities of cells communicate is a long step in the right direction. The Rice lab of synthetic...

Home > Press > Nanoscale manipulation of light leads to exciting new advancement: UNM researchers find decreasing the density of nanoparticles in ordered arrays produces exceptional field enhancementsArtistic depiction of the system under study. As the size of the particles is reduced, the field enhancement increases. CREDIT University of...

Oct 11, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Nanomaterials could provide the basis of many emerging technologies, including extremely tiny, flexible, and transparent electronics. While many nanomaterials exhibit promising electronic properties, scientists and engineers are still working to best integrate these materials together to eventually create semiconductors and circuits with them. Northwestern Engineering...

Home > Press > Physics: DNA-PAINT super-resolution microscopy at speed: Optimized DNA sequences allow for 10-times faster image acquisition in DNA-PAINTSuper-resolved DNA-PAINT allows the detection of the ultrastructure of cells, such as microtubules, which are part of the cytoskeleton. (Picture: Florian Schueder, MPI of Biochemistry)Abstract:Recent advances in fluorescence microscopy allow...

Oct 11, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Controlling the interactions between light and matter has been a long-standing ambition for scientists seeking to develop and advance numerous technologies that are fundamental to society. With the boom of nanotechnology in recent years, the nanoscale manipulation of light has become both, a promising pathway...

Home > Press > Physics: An ultrafast glimpse of the photochemistry of the atmosphereThis is an ultrafast glimpse of the photochemistry of the atmosphere CREDIT Matthias KlingAbstract:Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have explored the initial consequences of the interaction of light with molecules on the surface of nanoscopic...

Oct 11, 2019 (Nanowerk News) If you were to pry open your smartphone, you would see an array of electronic chips and components laid out across a circuit board, like a miniature city. Each component might contain even smaller "chiplets," some no wider than a human hair. These elements are...