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Nanomaterials-Based Retinal Prostheses to Treat Degenerative Retinal Blindness

Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) has led to the revolutionary development of an artificial liquid retinal prosthesis to counteract the effects of diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration that cause the progressive degeneration of photoreceptors of the retina, resulting in blindness.

30 Jun 2020

New Nanofiber can Protect Wearers from Extreme Temperatures, Ballistic Threats

Since World War I, the vast majority of American combat casualties has come not from gunshot wounds but from explosions.

30 Jun 2020

New Experiment Verifies Biosafety of Nanofiber Masks

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, masks have become an essential personal hygiene product as the first line of defense to protect one's respiratory system against the viruses and germs that spread through droplets in the air.

30 Jun 2020

Researchers Use Optical Tweezers to Analyze Bacteria Cells

A new function-based sequencing technique using optical tweezers and taking advantage of the properties of gravity is letting researchers analyze bacteria cells one by one.

29 Jun 2020

Innovation Center of NanoMedicine, QST, and University of Tokyo Develop Safe Liver Sinusoid Coating Agents

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) and Oracle Health Sciences have teamed as part of the Innovation Quarter's iQ Healthtech Labs™ to develop a consortium of industry, government, and academic members that will study novel approaches to establishing the safety of new drugs that are nearing clinical investigation in humans and FDA approval.

29 Jun 2020

New Process for Two-Sided Nanomaterials May Benefit Energy and Information Technologies

A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used a simple process to implant atoms precisely into the top layers of ultra-thin crystals, yielding two-sided structures with different chemical compositions.

29 Jun 2020

University of Wollongong Publishes Detailed Review of Spin-Gapless Semiconductors

A University of Wollongong team has published an extensive review of spin-gapless semiconductors (SGSs) .

29 Jun 2020

Picosun’s Medical ALD Solutions Ensure Excellent Hermetic Encapsulation

Picosun Group reports excellent results in ALD-organic bilayer encapsulation of metal electrodes for neuroprosthetics and bioelectronic medicine. Group also reports superior hermetic barrier performance of its ALD nanolaminates against corrosive ion diffusion in aqueous media. This is an important result for medical ALD applications and implantology, where metal components and sensitive microelectronics need to be protected against corrosion caused by human body fluids.

From Picosun Oy 29 Jun 2020

Study Shows How Magnet Nanoparticles Affect Cancer Cells in the Human Liver

Scientists from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) and National University of Science and Technology "MISiS" have studied how magnet nanoparticles affect cancer cells in the human liver.

26 Jun 2020

Gold Nanoparticles can Reduce Neuronal Cell Death

Gold nanoparticles have been developed in the laboratory in order to reduce the cell death of neurons exposed to overexcitement.

26 Jun 2020

Researchers Visualize DNA Replication Process at the Nanoscale

DNA replication is a process of critical importance to the cell, and must be coordinated precisely to ensure that genomic information is duplicated once and only once during each cell cycle.

26 Jun 2020

Scientists Use Graphene-Metal System to Acquire Molecular "Fingerprints”

Scientists from the Center for Photonics and 2D Materials of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the University of Oviedo, Donostia International Physics Center, and CIC nanoGUNE have proposed a new way to study the properties of individual organic molecules and nanolayers of molecules.

26 Jun 2020

New Nanostructure may Shed Light on Chemical Bonding Behavior of Boron Lanthanides

The discovery of carbon nanostructures like two-dimensional graphene and soccer ball-shaped buckyballs helped to launch a nanotechnology revolution.

26 Jun 2020

Researchers Develop New Mechanism to Obtain Metal “Nanoscrews”

Led by the Ikerbasque professor Luis Liz-Marzán, researchers at the Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials CIC biomaGUNE have developed a mechanism by which gold atoms are deposited by means of chemical reduction onto previously formed gold nanorods to produce a quasi-helicoidal structure.

26 Jun 2020

Fight Against COVID-19: Piezo Transducers for Ultrasonic Metering in Intensive Care Devices

Medical staffs around the world have experienced physical demands unknown to most during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in adaptation and processes improvement during this global medical crisis.

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 25 Jun 2020