Month: March 2024

Mar 15, 2024 (Nanowerk News) People with voice disorders, including those with pathological vocal cord conditions or who are recovering from laryngeal cancer surgeries, can often find it difficult or impossible to speak. That may soon change. A team of UCLA engineers has invented a soft, thin, stretchy device measuring...

Mar 15, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The ability to rapidly transform liquid monomers into solid polymers using light has been a transformative technology for over half a century. This process, known as photopolymerization, enables the fast fabrication of coatings, adhesives, dental fillings, and intricate 3D printed structures on demand. In photopolymerization,...

Mar 15, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A printable organic polymer that assembles into chiral structures when printed has enabled researchers to reliably measure the amount of charge produced in spin-to-charge conversion within a spintronic material at room temperature. The polymer’s tunable qualities and versatility make it desirable not only for less...

Mar 15, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Therapeutic cancer vaccines are a form of immunotherapy in the making that could not only destroy cancer cells in patients, but keep a cancer from coming back and spreading. Multiple therapeutic cancer vaccines are being studied in clinical trials, but despite their promise, they are...

Mar 15, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Since the discovery of graphene, the field of research in extremely thin materials, so-called 2D materials, has increased exponentially. The reason is that 2D materials have a large surface area in relation to their volume or weight. This gives rise to a range of physical...

Mar 14, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have garnered widespread attention following their successful application in delivering mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, to fully realize their potential for diverse therapeutic applications, scientists must overcome several clinical hurdles. In a recent forum published in Trends in Biotechnology ("Precise...

Mar 14, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Protein-based drugs must be transported into cells in a way that prevents their immediate degradation. A new approach is intended to ensure that they remain intact only in certain cells, such as cancer cells. In the journal Angewandte Chemie ("Selective Intracellular Delivery of Antibodies in...

Mar 14, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have developed a new nanoparticle treatment that significantly improves outcomes for severe burn-induced intestinal barrier disruption. The study introduces Luminol-conjugated cyclodextrin (LCD) nanoparticles, offering a promising therapeutic intervention for one of the most critical complications following severe burn injuries. Severe burns can cause critical...

Mar 14, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently successfully achieved lattice-mismatch-free construction of III-V/chalcogenide core-shell heterostructure nanowires for electronic and optoelectronic applications. This breakthrough addresses crucial technological challenges related to the lattice mismatch problem in the growth of high-quality heterostructure semiconductors, leading...

Mar 14, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Throwing a ball into the air, one can transfer arbitrary energy to the ball such that it flies higher or lower. One of the oddities of quantum physics is that particles, e.g., electrons, can often only take on quantized energy values – as if the...