Sep 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) “We put nanotubes inside of bacteria,” says Professor Ardemis Boghossian at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences. “That doesn't sound very exciting on the surface, but it's actually a big deal. Researchers have been putting carbon nanotubes in mammalian cells that use mechanisms like endocytosis, that...
Through the quantum looking glass
Sep 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An ultrathin invention could make future computing, sensing and encryption technologies remarkably smaller and more powerful by helping scientists control a strange but useful phenomenon of quantum mechanics, according to new research recently published in the journal Science ("Resonant metasurfaces for generating complex quantum states")....
Nanoplastics can move up the food chain from plants to insects and from insects to fish
Sep 12, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new study (Nano Today, "Quantifying the trophic transfer of sub-micron plastics in an assembled food chain") from the University of Eastern Finland shows that lettuce can take up nanoplastics from the soil and transfer them into the food chain. The concern about plastic pollution...