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Novel Measurement Tool for Graphene Could Accelerate Production, Optimize Device Fabrication

X-ray scans revolutionised medical treatments by allowing us to see inside humans without surgery. Similarly, terahertz spectroscopy penetrates graphene films allowing scientists to make detailed maps of their electrical quality, without damaging or contaminating the material.

24 Feb 2021

New Nano-Carrier Tested for Potential Treatment of Glioblastomas

Glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and aggressive form of primary brain tumor, has a survival rate of just five years. It is particularly challenging to treat, with existing therapies depending on chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, and their combinations.

24 Feb 2021

Silver Nanowires Coated with a Compact Gold Shell for Improved Electrochromic Devices

The team of Professor Dongling Ma of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) developed a new approach for foldable and solid devices.

23 Feb 2021

Direct Cell Reprogramming Technology Shows Promise for Regenerative Medicine

Muscle plays a crucial role in maintaining the human lives and is the largest organ accounting for 40% of body mass.

22 Feb 2021

Researchers Use Advanced Microscopy to Watch Mesocrystals Form in Real-Time

When materials reach extremely small size scales, strange things begin to happen. One of those phenomena is the formation of mesocrystals.

18 Feb 2021

3D-Printed Technique Helps Create Perovskite-Graphene Detectors

Ever since X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895, they have become a standard in medical imaging.

18 Feb 2021

New 6DOF Hexapod Motion Systems – Smaller than Traditional 6-Axis Vacuum Stages

A hexapod offers motion in 6 degrees of freedom (XYZ, Pitch, Roll, Yaw). PI has designed and manufactured high precision hexapod systems for more than 3 decades and provides hundreds of models from miniature sized systems for Silicon Photonics Alignment to large units that help align huge antenna feeds for astronomical telescopes.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 18 Feb 2021

Study Reports a Performance Leap for Graphene-Based Modulators in Next Generation Telecommunications

Over the past years, global data traffic has experienced a boom, with over 12.5 billion connected devices all over the world.

17 Feb 2021

Novel Nanotechnologies Could Help Reduce Friction in Various Mechanisms

Researchers from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI and Immanuel Kant Baltic State Federal University (BFU) have proposed the use of novel thin films to drastically minimize friction to enhance the durability of surfaces in mechanisms.

17 Feb 2021

Creating the Smallest Ever Microchips with Graphene “Nano-Origami”

Graphene and other 2D materials could be used to create tiny microchips through a folding process dubbed ‘nano-origami.’ The development could result in a new generation of smaller, faster, and greener ‘straintronic’ devices.

By Robert Lea 16 Feb 2021

Kagome Graphene Behaves as Semiconductor, May Have Unusual Electrical Properties

In a breakthrough study, physicists from the University of Basel have created for the first time a graphene compound containing carbon atoms and a few number of nitrogen atoms in a regular pattern of triangles and hexagons.

16 Feb 2021

Graphene “nano-origami” Creates Tiniest Microchips Yet

The tiniest microchips yet can be made from graphene and other 2D-materials, using a form of ‘nano-origami’, physicists at the University of Sussex have found.

16 Feb 2021

High Pressure Flowmeter for Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

Titan Enterprises reports that its High Pressure Oval Gear (OG4) flowmeters provide an ideal solution for applications, within the oil and gas industry, that require a highly accurate and chemically resistant flow measurement device, such as metering high pressure additive injection.

16 Feb 2021

New Nanospheres Measure the Tiny Forces of Biological Motors

Motor proteins produce the forces required for crucial mechanical processes in the human body. On a nanometer scale—that is, a millionth of a millimeter—motor proteins, for instance, transport material within the human cells, or power the human muscles.

15 Feb 2021

Metal-Organic Framework Helps Achieve Better Results for Cancer Immunotherapy

A cancer immunotherapy drug loaded onto a metal-organic framework exhibits improved delivery as well as a steady release for treating leukemia.

15 Feb 2021

Nanotechnology News

Novel Measurement Tool for Graphene Could Accelerate Production, Optimize Device Fabrication

New Nano-Carrier Tested for Potential Treatment of Glioblastomas

Silver Nanowires Coated with a Compact Gold Shell for Improved Electrochromic Devices

Direct Cell Reprogramming Technology Shows Promise for Regenerative Medicine

Researchers Use Advanced Microscopy to Watch Mesocrystals Form in Real-Time

3D-Printed Technique Helps Create Perovskite-Graphene Detectors

New 6DOF Hexapod Motion Systems – Smaller than Traditional 6-Axis Vacuum Stages

Study Reports a Performance Leap for Graphene-Based Modulators in Next Generation Telecommunications

Novel Nanotechnologies Could Help Reduce Friction in Various Mechanisms

Creating the Smallest Ever Microchips with Graphene “Nano-Origami”

Kagome Graphene Behaves as Semiconductor, May Have Unusual Electrical Properties

Graphene “nano-origami” Creates Tiniest Microchips Yet

High Pressure Flowmeter for Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

New Nanospheres Measure the Tiny Forces of Biological Motors

Metal-Organic Framework Helps Achieve Better Results for Cancer Immunotherapy

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