Zooplankton in ocean and freshwater are rapidly escalating the global...
A collaborative research team lead by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently revealed that rotifers, a kind of microscopic zooplankton common in both fresh and ocean water around the...
View ArticleResearchers develop novel selenium nanoparticles for managing postmenopausal...
As the aging population around the world grows, metabolic diseases like osteoporosis are becoming more prevalent and placing a greater burden on health care systems. Rising to this challenge, a...
View ArticleAs microscopic materials proliferate, ensuring they are safe is a priority
Researchers in Europe are working to counter potential risks from nanomaterials used by a range of industries for technological advances.
View ArticleEnhancing the antimicrobial activity of silver nanoparticles against...
Researchers at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) have demonstrated that green tea–silver nanoparticles as a powerful tool against pathogens such as...
View ArticleCRONT: Empowering optical tweezers with 'biometric eyes'
Optothermal nanotweezers, an innovative optical manipulation technique over the past decade, have revolutionized classical optical manipulation by efficiently capturing a broader spectrum of...
View ArticleNetworking nano-biosensors for wireless communication in the blood
Biological computing machines, such as micro and nano-implants that can collect important information inside the human body, are transforming medicine. Yet, networking them for communication has proven...
View ArticleStudy shows plants use air channels to create a directional light signal and...
Plants have no visual organs, so how do they know where light comes from? In an original study combining expertise in biology and engineering, the team led by Prof Christian Fankhauser at UNIL, in...
View ArticleThe 'jigglings and wigglings of atoms' reveal key aspects of COVID-19...
Richard Feynman famously stated, "Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms." This week, Nature Nanotechnology features a study that sheds new...
View ArticleStudy shows the ability of some molecules to modify the surface of nanoparticles
Nanoparticles have unique properties that make them exceptional tools with a variety of applications, from medicine to electronics. One of the lesser-known facts about them is that their surface plays...
View ArticlePhotonic chips can calculate optimal shape of light for next-gen wireless...
Optical wireless may no longer have any obstacles. A study by Politecnico di Milano, conducted together with Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, the University of Glasgow and Stanford University, and...
View ArticleOptical data storage breakthrough increases capacity of diamonds by...
Physicists at The City College of New York have developed a technique with the potential to enhance optical data storage capacity in diamonds. This is possible by multiplexing the storage in the...
View ArticleResearchers design limestone putty nanogenerator to harvest energy from...
Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have created a new kind of triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) that produces electricity through the use of limestone putty, promising...
View ArticleBowtie resonators that build themselves bridge the gap between nanoscopic and...
A central goal in quantum optics and photonics is to increase the strength of the interaction between light and matter to produce, for example, better photodetectors or quantum light sources. The best...
View ArticleResearchers create 3D DNA nanorobots
Researchers at universities in New York and Ningbo, China, say they have created tiny robots built from DNA that can reproduce themselves.
View ArticlePolaritons open up a new lane on the semiconductor highway
On the highway of heat transfer, thermal energy is moved by way of quantum particles called phonons. But at the nanoscale of today's most cutting-edge semiconductors, those phonons don't remove enough...
View ArticlePolyethylene waste could be a thing of the past
An international team of experts undertaking fundamental research has developed a way of using polyethylene waste (PE) as a feedstock and converted it into valuable chemicals, via light-driven...
View ArticleNew ways to make ordered wafer-scale chiral carbon nanotube architectures
Chiral materials interact with light in very precise ways that are useful for building better displays, sensors and more powerful devices. However, engineering properties such as chirality reliably at...
View ArticleCould the 'central dogma' of biology be misleading bioengineers?
Today, medicines based on antibodies—proteins that fight infection and disease—are prescribed for everything from cancer to COVID-19 to high cholesterol. The antibody drugs are supplied by...
View ArticleResearchers review miniaturized electrochemical sensor technologies for rapid...
Heavy metals (HMs) are metals with high densities and atomic weights. Originating from geological processes or human activities, including mining, industrial production, and petrochemical plants, they...
View ArticleHarnessing nanotechnology to understand tumor behavior
A new study conducted by pre-Ph.D. researcher Pablo S. Valera demonstrates the potential of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to explore metabolites secreted by cancer cells in cancer research.
View ArticleNanoparticles with antibacterial action could shorten duration of...
A low-cost technology involving nanoparticles loaded with antibiotics and other antimicrobial compounds that can be used in multiple attacks on infections by the bacterium responsible for most cases of...
View ArticleUsing molecular 'cookie cutters' to view membrane protein organization
The membrane that encases a biological cell is not simply a barrier; it is chock full of proteins involved in all sorts of critical biological functions. To really understand what membrane proteins are...
View ArticleImage: Pinhole propulsion for satellites
A palm-sized propulsion option for future space missions: Each one of these seven emitter arrays etched onto this silicon wafer using micro- and nano-technology possesses more than 500 pinhole-sized...
View ArticleNanotechnology approaches for creating biodeterioration-resistant wood
Emerging technologies such as nanotechnology can provide efficient approaches by which new materials with broad functions, such as durable and fire-retardant properties, can be developed and...
View ArticleHow to start a successful innovation ecosystem
The emergence of informal voluntary organizations capable of triggering "coopetition" where sheer competition and poor resource management prevailed, can be the key to tackling the hurdles that prevent...
View Article3D printed multilayer structures for high-numerical aperture achromatic lenses
Flat optics are made of nanostructures containing high-refractive index materials to produce lenses with thin form factors that function only at specific wavelengths.
View ArticleESA's tiny pinhole thruster is ready for production
Rocket propulsion technology has progressed leaps and bounds since the first weaponized rockets of the Chinese and Mongolian empires. They were nothing more than rocket-powered arrows and spears but...
View ArticleSoft microrobots with super-compliant picoforce springs as onboard sensors...
The integration of mechanical memory in the form of springs has for hundreds of years proven to be a key enabling technology for mechanical devices (such as clocks), achieving advanced functionality...
View ArticleNanostructured flat lens uses machine learning to 'see' more clearly, while...
A front-end lens, or meta-imager, created at Vanderbilt University can potentially replace traditional imaging optics in machine-vision applications, producing images at higher speed and using less power.
View ArticleSize and shape of inhaled asbestos nanofibers may be exclusively responsible...
The pathogenic potential of inhaling the inert fibrous nanomaterials used in thermal insulation (such as asbestos or fiberglass) is actually connected not to their chemical composition, but instead to...
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