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Wastewater Treatment by Using PEDOT-Coated Carbon Nanofiber Electrodes

Bioelectrochemical Engineers and Materials Scientists from the Cornell University might have developed what seems to be a new, cost-effective electrode material for eliminating pollutants from wastewater.

28 Jun 2017

Switchable DNA Machines for Storing Information

Biomedical Engineers have developed simple machines out of DNA, comprising of arrays whose units switch reversibly between two types of shapes.

23 Jun 2017

Plant Inspiration Helps Researchers Create Graphene-Based Aerogel for Use in Flexible Electronics

Versatile, light-weight materials with a combination of strength and resilience are vital for the development of flexible electronics, such as wearable sensors and bendable tablets.

22 Jun 2017

Europium-Doped Lanthanum Phosphate Nanorods Determine Fluid Flow in Complex Channels

A Franco-Dutch International team including scientists from the laboratories of Condensed Matter Physics and Hydrodynamics at Paris-Saclay University and the Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam has developed an innovative technique for accurately determining, in real time, the fluid flow in capillary networks.

21 Jun 2017

Scientists Develop Bioinspired Color-Shifting Nanoparticles for Commercial Use

Inspired by the varying colors that gleam off of beetle shells, scientists have developed color-shifting nanoparticles that can change hue even after being embedded into a material.

15 Jun 2017

MIT Research Team Develops Innovative DNA Origami

The founding mission of MIT may seem like an unusual meal-time story for a child. But, when Mark Bathe was growing up, it was a regular topic of conversation around the dinner table.

5 Jun 2017

Combination Therapy for Cancer using Radiation and Nanoencapsulated Drugs

Scientists from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have discovered an astonishing new role for the immune cells known as macrophages—enhancing the efficaciousness of nanoparticle-delivered cancer treatments.

1 Jun 2017

Self-Assembling, Self-Propelling, and Self-Destructive Nanovesicle for Drug Delivery

Some of the favorable attributes of nanomedical systems are autonomous targeting and delivery of drugs at their location of action. At present, a group of Dutch Researchers have developed a nanomotor that includes an antitumor drug enclosed within a self-assembled, self-propelled stomatocytes, carried over the cellular membrane and delivered into the cell on receiving a chemical redox signal for disassembling the vesicle membrane.

31 May 2017

Using Nanopore Technology To Identify Proteins

According to a new study published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology, researchers can improve on conventional protein analysis methods by using tiny nanopores, which ‘scan’ the proteins as they pass through them.

31 May 2017

miniDAWN TREOS II SEC-MALS Detector for Essential Protein and Polymer Characterization

Wyatt Technology, the world leader in instrumentation for absolute macromolecular and nanoparticle characterization, announces the launch of its next generation multi-angle light scattering (MALS) detector for SEC/GPC, t...

From Waters | Wyatt Technology 26 Apr 2017