Month: December 2019

Dec 13, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Molecular drills have gained the ability to target and destroy deadly bacteria that have evolved resistance to nearly all antibiotics. In some cases, the drills make the antibiotics effective once again. Researchers at Rice University, Texas A&M University, Biola University and Durham (U.K.) University showed...

Home > Press > How to induce magnetism in graphene: Elusive molecule predicted in the 1970s finally synthesized3D-rendered high-resolution scanning tunneling micrograph of Clar’s goblet. Image: EmpaAbstract:Depending on the shape and orientation of their edges, graphene nanostructures (also known as nanographenes) can have very different properties - for example, they...

Dec 13, 2019 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Colloidal particles are promising building blocks to construct functional nanostructures, materials and devices. Researchers have developed numerous optical techniques, including optical tweezers (see for instance: "Manipulating colloids with mobile nanotweezers") to trap, manipulate, and assemble colloidal particles in fluidic environments at single-particle resolution. "When these...

Home > Press > CEA-Leti Thin-Film Batteries Target Extended Applications and Improved Performance in Medical Implants: IEDM 2019 Paper Reports Millimeter-Scale TFBs Exhibit the Best Performance In Both Energy and Power DensitiesAbstract:n a research result that potentially could expand the market for tiny energy-storage units in medical implantable, injectable and...

Dec 12, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Scientists are getting better at modeling the complex tangle of physics properties at play in one of the most powerful events in the known universe: the merger of two neutron stars. Neutron stars are the fast-spinning, ultradense husks of larger stars that exploded as supernovae....

Home > Press > Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Closes Underwritten Public Offering with Gross Proceeds of $266.8 MillionAbstract:Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARWR) today announced that on December 6, 2019 it closed the previously announced underwritten public offering of 4,600,000 shares of its common stock, which included shares issued upon the exercise in...

Dec 12, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Chinese scientists recently developed a flexible electronic skin (e-skin) capable of self-powered neural stimulation and inducing a neural response (Nano Energy, "Self-powered, wireless-control, neural-stimulating electronic skin for in vivo characterization of synaptic plasticity"). The technology will be useful in characterizing synaptic plasticity. The research was...

Home > Press > 'Buildings' in human bone may hold key to stronger 3D-printed lightweight structuresEngineers designed a material with the same amount of rod- and plate-like structures as human trabeculae and arranged them in a periodic pattern, presenting a new way to strengthen lightweight 3D-printed structures. CREDIT Purdue...

Dec 11, 2019 (Nanowerk News) More than one hundred and fifty years have passed since the publication of James Clerk Maxwell's A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field (1865). What would our lives be without this publication? It is difficult to imagine, as this treatise revolutionized our fundamental understanding of...

Home > Press > Artificial cells act more like the real thingCell-mimicking vesicles with enzymes incorporated into their membrane show active motility upon catalysis. CREDIT Subhadip GhoshAbstract:Protocells -- artificial cells -- that are active and mimic living cells by moving independently and that are biocompatible and enzymatically active are...