May 30, 2024 (Nanowerk News) RIKEN chemists have demonstrated a gold nanocluster system that carries two components of a drug in a controlled ratio for maximum cancer-cell killing effect (Chemical Science, "Clickable bisreactive small gold nanoclusters for preparing multifunctionalized nanomaterials: application to photouncaging of an anticancer molecule"). The active drug...
Plasmonic nanodarts for cancer therapy and antimicrobial treatment
May 29, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Developing multifunctional nanomaterials has been a long-standing goal in the field of biomedical research. Over the years, scientists have explored various strategies to engineer nanostructures that can synergistically combine different properties to address complex medical challenges. However, achieving precise control over the composition, structure, and...
Graphene gets cleaned up
May 29, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Since its discovery in 2004, graphene has been touted for its host of unique properties, which include ultra-high electrical conductivity and remarkable tensile strength. It has the potential to transform electronics, energy storage, sensors, biomedical devices, and more. But graphene has had a dirty little...
Ancient medicine blends with modern-day research in new tissue regeneration method
May 29, 2024 (Nanowerk News) For centuries, civilizations have used naturally occurring, inorganic materials for their perceived healing properties. Egyptians thought green copper ore helped eye inflammation, the Chinese used cinnabar for heartburn, and Native Americans used clay to reduce soreness and inflammation. Flash forward to today, and researchers at...
Landmark study is step towards energy-efficient quantum computing in magnets
May 29, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Lancaster University and Radboud University Nijmegen have managed to generate propagating spin waves at the nanoscale and discovered a novel pathway to modulate and amplify them. Their discovery, published in Nature ("Canted spin order as a platform for ultrafast conversion of magnons"), could...
Modular, scalable hardware architecture for a quantum computer
May 29, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Quantum computers hold the promise of being able to quickly solve extremely complex problems that might take the world’s most powerful supercomputer decades to crack. But achieving that performance involves building a system with millions of interconnected building blocks called qubits. Making and controlling so...
The case of the missing black holes
May 29, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Research Center for the Early Universe (RESCEU) and Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI) at the University of Tokyo have applied the well-understood and highly verified quantum field theory, usually applied to the study of...
Researchers create nanomaterials with unique combination of stiffness, thermal insulation
May 29, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have demonstrated the ability to engineer materials that are both stiff and capable of insulating against heat. This combination of properties is extremely unusual and holds promise for a range of applications, such as the development of new thermal insulation coatings for electronic devices....
Molecular mechanisms of new gene-editing tool revealed
May 29, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Joint research led by Yutaro Shuto, Ryoya Nakagawa, and Osamu Nureki of the University of Tokyo determined the spatial structure of various processes of a novel gene-editing tool called “prime editor.” Functional analysis based on these structures also revealed how a “prime editor” could achieve...
First detection of magnetic massive stars outside our galaxy
May 29, 2024 (Nanowerk News) For the first time, magnetic fields have been detected in three massive, hot stars in our neighboring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. While magnetic massive stars have already been detected in our own galaxy, the discovery of magnetism in the Magellanic Clouds is...