A team led by Professor Nicola Marzari, head of Theory and Simulation of Materials at EPFL’s School of Engineering and Materials Simulations at PSI, and director of NCCR MARVEL, has received the first-ever PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) HPC Excellence Award.
Highly hydrophobic silk-based nanoscale composites were developed using plasma treatment and showed promise in cleaning oily water.
By Shaheer Rehan
22 Jun 2022
New microelectronics device can program and reprogram computer hardware on demand through electrical pulses.
After studying the mechanism of silver nanowire films, a team of researchers led by Shulin Ji from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ (CAS) Hefei Institutes of Physical Science found that the greater the plasticity of the silver nanowire films, the more resistant they were to shear fracture.
Researchers reported a nano-antibiotic by conjugating levofloxacin with multi-walled CNTs (MWCNT-LVX), wherein the drug was grafted with surface-modified CNT to achieve a nano-drug that is safe, effective, and fast-acting.
By Bhavna Kaveti
21 Jun 2022
Researchers investigated the effect of nanosilver (Ag), noise, and nano-Ag plus noise treatments on rat’s cochlea, with treatments inducing oxidative stress in rats and changing the expression of interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-a), and NADPH oxidase 3 (NOX3).
By Bhavna Kaveti
21 Jun 2022
Comprehensive insights into the production of important bioactive compounds via the “algal nanobionics” approach is given in a new review, which focuses on the role of carbon nanomaterials for efficient algal growth.
By Dr. Priyom Bose
21 Jun 2022
A study presents a comprehensive analysis of recent advancements in semiconductor metal oxide (SMO) gas detectors for identifying expelled acetone, which could help to replace invasive blood sugar monitoring.
By Shaheer Rehan
21 Jun 2022
SARS-CoV-2 envelope, protein, and RNA can be destroyed by nano-sized electrostatic atomized water particles, which eventually impairs the ability of the virus to attach to host cells.
Researchers constructed an ultra-efficient, less complicated, high-speed simple multiplier based on two-bit Vedic multiplier mathematics by using a QCADesigner-E modeling environment.
By Bhavna Kaveti
20 Jun 2022
Researchers employed a single particle imaging method for fluorescence excitation with moderate intensity to achieve spatial resolution. Herein, the semiconductor nanocrystals were accessed, whose emission lifetimes depended on excitation intensity.
By Bhavna Kaveti
20 Jun 2022
New research focuses on producing smart, multifaceted, and structurally robust nanocomposites by combining functionalized graphene nanoplatelets (F-GNPs) with polyurea.
By Hussain Ahmed
20 Jun 2022
A simple approach for producing graphitic carbon nitride on reduced graphene oxide was shown using semi-closed pyrolysis of graphene oxide and urea in ambient conditions contributing to viable carbon-based ORR electrocatalysts.
By Shaheer Rehan
20 Jun 2022
Analysis conducted on shape memory polymeric composites made from industrial substances previously utilized in aerospace enabled the identification of recovering processes at the microscopic level crucial for shape memory capabilities at the macroscopic level.
By Shaheer Rehan
20 Jun 2022
Detailed knowledge of nature’s smallest biological building elements—biomolecules—is essential to generating new medications and vaccinations. Researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a revolutionary microscopy approach that allows proteins, DNA, and other small biological particles to be investigated in their natural conditions in an entirely new way.