Month: January 2022

Jan 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Penn Medicine have discovered a new, more effective method of preventing the body’s own proteins from treating nanomedicines like foreign invaders, by covering the nanoparticles with a coating to suppress the immune response that dampens the therapy’s effectiveness. When injected into the bloodstream,...

Jan 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Neuromorphic devices — which emulate the decision-making processes of the human brain — show great promise for solving pressing scientific problems, but building physical systems to realize this potential presents researchers with a significant challenge. An international team has gained additional insights into a material...

Jan 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A group of chemists from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania synthesised materials that were used for constructing a record-breaking perovskite solar module, with an efficiency of 21.4 per cent. This was achieved through the passivation of the active solar cell layer, which increases the...

Jan 11, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Neutron stars are tiny in size, but almost incomprehensibly dense. Actually, they are stellar corpses, but they still have enough life in them to show some of the most exciting phenomena you can find in space. “Neutron stars aren’t only fascinating for astronomers. They’re unique...

Jan 11, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) 2021 was a remarkable year for Bionanotechnology. It had seen the widespread use of mRNA vaccines to fight COVID-19, formulated using lipid nanoparticles to stabilise the fragile mRNA cargo. This huge success was not the first of its kind. That had been established some 30...

Jan 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Gold nanoclusters are groups of a few gold atoms with interesting photoluminescent properties. The features of gold nanoclusters depend not only on their structure, but their size and also by the ligands coordinated to them. These inorganic nanomaterials have been used in sensing, biomedicine and...

Jan 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Université de Montréal have created a nanoantenna to monitor the motions of proteins. Reported in Nature Methods ("Monitoring protein conformational changes using fluorescent nanoantennas"), the device is a new method to monitor the structural change of proteins over time – and may go...

Jan 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) About 400,000 years after the universe was created began a period called “The Epoch of Reionization.” During this time, the once hotter universe began to cool and matter clumped together, forming the first stars and galaxies. As these stars and galaxies emerged, their energy heated...

Jan 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Chemistry professor Martin Oschatz of the University of Jena (Germany) has been awarded a coveted Starting Grant by the European Research Council to support his pioneering work, the ERC announced today. This grant, which provides up to 1.5 million euros over five years, is given...