Day: December 16, 2019

Home > News > This new nanotech could help clean up Earth’s microplastics August 3rd, 2019 This new nanotech could help clean up Earth’s microplastics Abstract:Now, scientists have designed reusable nano-sized reactors — called nanocoils — that can trigger microplastic breakdown. The work, published Wednesday in the journal Matter, could...

Dec 16, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have discovered gigantic clouds of gaseous carbon spanning more than a radius of 30,000 light-years around young galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). This is the first confirmation that carbon atoms produced inside of stars in the early Universe have spread beyond...

Home > News > Journal Nanotechnology Progress International (JONPI), volume 7, issue 1 out September 16th, 2019 Journal Nanotechnology Progress International (JONPI), volume 7, issue 1 outAbstract:This issue is a special edition covering the African-nano-conference of Focus Nanotechnologyy Africa-US-EU-Africa-Asia and Caribbean Academy of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (FONAI-USEACANN) at Sheraton hotel,...

Dec 16, 2019 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Theranostics – a combination of the words therapeutics and diagnostics – describes an integrated therapeutic platform for cancer treatment that can diagnose a tumor, deliver targeted therapy, and monitor the response to therapy in a single procedure. Theranostic medicine is a step towards personalized medicine...

Home > Press > Growing carbon nanotubes with the right twist: Researchers synthetize nanotubes with a specific structure expanding previous theories on carbon nanotube growth(a) Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could be viewed as single-atom layer thick graphene sheets rolled into a cylinder. Different directions of rolling determine CNTs' properties. (b) Schematic...

Dec 13, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Transparent solar cells (TSC) are emerging devices that combine the advantages of visible transparency and light-to-electricity conversion. One of the valuable prospective applications of such devices is their integration into buildings, vehicles, or portable electronics. Therefore, colour-perception and flexibility are important as well as the...

Home > Press > Better studying superconductivity in single-layer graphene| An existing technique is better suited to describing superconductivity in pure, single-layer graphene than current methodsAbstract:Made up of 2D sheets of carbon atoms arranged in honeycomb lattices, graphene has been intensively studied in recent years. As well as the material's...

Dec 13, 2019 (Nanowerk News) In 2015, the first commercial nanopore DNA sequencing device was introduced by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Based on a synthetically engineered transmembrane protein, nanopore sequencing allows long DNA strands to be channelled through the central lumen of the pore where changes in the ionic current work...

Home > Press > Tiny magnetic particles enable new material to bend, twist, and grabThis object is made from a special material called "magnetic shape-memory polymer." It can bend and change shape in response to a magnetic field. CREDIT Allison Carter Abstract:A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of...

Dec 13, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Made up of 2D sheets of carbon atoms arranged in honeycomb lattices, graphene has been intensively studied in recent years. As well as the material's diverse structural properties, physicists have paid particular attention to the intriguing dynamics of the charge carriers its many variants can...