Day: March 17, 2025

Mar 17, 2025 Scientists are investigating how structures made from several layers of graphene stack up in terms of their fundamental physics and their potential as reconfigurable semiconductors for advanced electronics. (Nanowerk News) University of Texas at Dallas scientists are investigating how structures made from several layers of graphene stack...

Mar 17, 2025 Engineers developed a way to grow artificial tissues that look and act like their natural counterparts. (Nanowerk News) We move thanks to coordination among many skeletal muscle fibers, all twitching and pulling in sync. While some muscles align in one direction, others form intricate patterns, helping parts...

Mar 17, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Skin aging caused by ultraviolet (UV) radiation presents a complex challenge for medical researchers and cosmetic scientists alike. Since the 1980s, approaches to treating photoaging have evolved from simple topical retinoids to sophisticated energy-based devices, yet all have faced a common obstacle: the skin's protective...

Mar 17, 2025 Researchers developed a single-cell green microalgae coated with magnetic nanoparticles. (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart developed a biohybrid micro swimmer covered with magnetic material, whose swimming ability is largely unaffected by the coating. The team...

Mar 17, 2025 Scientists use RNA origami to fold biomolecules into nanotubes, forming cytoskeleton-like structures, advancing synthetic biology toward artificial cells. (Nanowerk News) With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality...

Mar 17, 2025 Scientists describe how nanotechnology principles developed to deliver toxic drugs to cancer cells could help produce more environmentally-friendly pesticides and fungicides. (Nanowerk News) Cancer drugs and agrichemicals can be powerful, but toxic, tools. Now, UNSW scientists are applying nanomedicine insights on a project to make greener agrichemicals...