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Mechanical Deformation can Kill Bacteria with Gold Nanoparticles

Finding alternatives to antibiotics is one of the biggest challenges facing the research community. Bacteria are increasingly resistant to these drugs, and this resistance leads to the deaths of more than 25,000 around the world.

11 Dec 2020

Nanodiamond-Embedded Membrane Filters for 'Sparkling' Clean Water

Although most of the planet is covered by water, only a fraction of it is clean enough for humans to use. Therefore, it is important to recycle this resource whenever possible. Current purification techniques cannot adequately handle the very hot wastewater generated by some industries.

11 Dec 2020

Nanodiamond-Enabled Membranes for High-Temperature Water Treatment

Despite the fact that water covers a major part of the planet Earth, just a fraction of it is clean enough for human use.

10 Dec 2020

Silver-Doped Metal Nanocluster Shows 18-Fold Greater Photoluminescence

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have discovered that a silver-doped platinum thiolate nanometal complex shows 18-fold greater photoluminescence than the original platinum complex. In their recent paper, they provide insights into the causes of this, crowning a new approach to creating efficient non-toxic and biocompatible compounds for bioimaging.

9 Dec 2020

Simple Method Helps Understand the Effects of Nano-Plastics in the Environment

A ground-breaking method to label and track manufactured nano-plastics could signal a paradigm shift in how we understand and care for environments, finds a new study.

9 Dec 2020

Research Highlights Strategies for Improving the Biosynthesis of Inorganic Nanomaterials

There are diverse methods for producing numerous inorganic nanomaterials involving many experimental variables. Among the numerous possible matches, finding the best pair for synthesizing in an environmentally friendly way has been a longstanding challenge for researchers and industries.

8 Dec 2020

A Single Nanoparticle can Produce Laser Emissions at Low Power

Lasers are used in a range of everyday devices, harnessing the power of light molecules, photons, - lined up to form highly concentrated beams of light - to perform now common tasks such as scanning barcodes and removing tattoos.

2 Dec 2020

Quantum Nanodiamonds Could be Used for Ultrasensitive Diagnostics

The quantum sensing abilities of nanodiamonds can be used to improve the sensitivity of paper-based diagnostic tests, potentially allowing for earlier detection of diseases such as HIV, according to a study led by UCL researchers in the i-sense McKendry group.

26 Nov 2020

Lanthanide nanocrystals brighten molecular triplet excitons

NUS scientists have developed an approach to improve the generation and luminescent harvesting of molecular triplets by coupling them with lanthanide-doped nanoparticles. This innovation provides new insights on lanthanide nanocrystal-molecule interaction in the optoelectronic field.

26 Nov 2020

Carbon nanocomposites one step closer to practical industrial application

A research team from the Center for Design, Manufacturing and Materials at Skoltech has recently published a study focusing on multifunctional materials created through the addition of carbon nanoparticles to polymer mat...

26 Nov 2020