Home > Press > Development of semiconductor microchip that can detect prostate cancer markers with ultra-high sensitivity: Working toward the realization of IoT biosensors The semiconductor sensor that detects antigen molecules by capturing them on the surface of a nanosheet film. The peak shift amount represents the output value of...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Measuring pulse waves with a hair-thin patch
Home > Press > Measuring pulse waves with a hair-thin patch Pulse signal map created by ultrathin wearable sensors with 100 sensing pixels. CREDIT POSTECH Abstract:A pulse wave is a wave in which the blood flow that originates from the heartbeat is transmitted to the body. It...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: The future of data storage is double-helical, research indicates: The Information Age needs a new data storage powerhouse. With an expanded molecular alphabet and a 21st century twist, DNA may just fit the bill.
Home > Press > The future of data storage is double-helical, research indicates: The Information Age needs a new data storage powerhouse. With an expanded molecular alphabet and a 21st century twist, DNA may just fit the bill. (From left) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers Charles Schroeder, Kasra Tabatabaei, and...
Breaking down how single-atom catalysts help remove organic pollutants
Mar 05, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered key clues behind the workings of “single-atom” catalysts based on iron-pyridine sites in a carbon matrix (Environmental Science & Technology, "Elucidating the Mechanistic Origin of a Spin State-Dependent FeNx–C Catalyst toward Organic Contaminant Oxidation via Peroxymonosulfate Activation"). High-spin...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Visualizing the invisible: New fluorescent DNA label reveals nanoscopic cancer features
Home > Press > Visualizing the invisible: New fluorescent DNA label reveals nanoscopic cancer features Yang Liu, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh and member of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. CREDIT UPMC Abstract:Researchers have developed a new fluorescent label that gives a...
AI-designed protein awakens silenced genes, one by one
Mar 05, 2022 (Nanowerk News) By combining CRISPR technology with a protein designed with artificial intelligence, it is possible to awaken individual dormant genes by disabling the chemical “off switches” that silence them. Researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle describe this finding in the journal...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Atom by atom: building precise smaller nanoparticles with templates
Home > Press > Atom by atom: building precise smaller nanoparticles with templates This scientific illustration of the study, created by Dr Takamasa Tsukamoto of Tokyo Tech, was selected as an Inside Cover Picture in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Image source: Dr. Tsukamoto, Tokyo Tech CREDIT Dr Takamasa Tsukamoto...
Single nanopore sequencing test for over 50 genetic diseases will cut diagnosis from decades to days
Mar 05, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new DNA test, developed by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and collaborators from Australia, UK and Israel, has been shown to identify a range of hard-to-diagnose neurological and neuromuscular genetic diseases quicker and more-accurately than existing tests. ‘We correctly...
Anchoring strategy helps to set new record of efficient ideal bandgap perovskite solar cells
Mar 05, 2022 (Nanowerk News) In a study published in Advanced Materials ("Selective Targeting Anchor Strategy Afford Efficient and Stable Ideal Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells"), researchers at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a novel solution to to tackle bimetallic traps in...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: CEA and Spectronite Develop Software Radio For Spectrally Efficient Backhaul Solutions: Adapted for Spectronites X-Series Modem for 5G Systems, the Technology Enables Carrier Aggregation that Provides Radio Links with 10Gb/s Capacity
Home > Press > CEA and Spectronite Develop Software Radio For Spectrally Efficient Backhaul Solutions: Adapted for Spectronites X-Series Modem for 5G Systems, the Technology Enables Carrier Aggregation that Provides Radio Links with 10Gb/s Capacity Abstract:CEA, a French key player in research, development and innovation, and Spectronite, a leading innovator...