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Nanodroplets and Ultrasound Drill can Help Eliminate Tough Blood Clots

Engineering researchers have developed a new technique for eliminating particularly tough blood clots, using engineered nanodroplets and an ultrasound "drill" to break up the clots from the inside out. The technique has not yet gone through clinical testing. In vitro testing has shown promising results.

8 Jan 2021

New Shape-Shifting Nanomaterial Holds Potential for Biomedical Applications

Chemists have developed a nanomaterial that they can trigger to shape shift -- from flat sheets to tubes and back to sheets again -- in a controllable fashion.

8 Jan 2021

New Atomically Smooth Silicon Pyramids Exhibit Unusual Magnetics Properties

Home appliances, mobile phones, cars, and other day-to-day technologies have been completely transformed by ultrasmall integrated circuits.

7 Jan 2021

Newly Discovered Nanocatalyst Displays Higher Stability, Durability

Catalysts form part of numerous aspects of modern society. They accelerate crucial chemical reactions, thus supporting industrial manufacturing and minimizing hazardous emissions.

5 Jan 2021

A Nanomechanical Approach for Stretching Microfabricated Diamonds

Diamond is the hardest material in nature. But out of many expectations, it also has great potential as an excellent electronic material. A joint research team led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has demonstrated for the first time the large, uniform tensile elastic straining of microfabricated diamond arrays through the nanomechanical approach.

4 Jan 2021

Mathematical Formulas Describe Physical Phenomenon in Quantum Dots, Other Nanomaterials

Theoretical physicists Yoshimichi Teratani and Akira Oguri of Osaka City University, and Rui Sakano of the University of Tokyo have developed mathematical formulas that describe a physical phenomenon happening within quantum dots and other nanosized materials.

24 Dec 2020

Researchers use Chemical Vapor Deposition to Create Self-Assembled Nanowires

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered a way to make self-assembled nanowires of transition metal chalcogenides at scale using chemical vapor deposition.

24 Dec 2020

Scientists Study the Effect of Nanoparticles on Oil Production Efficiency

A team of scientists from Siberian Federal University together with their colleagues from Novosibirsk studied the effect of nanoparticles on oil production efficiency. When added to the water that displaces oil from a reservoir, nanoparticles improve the separation of oil drops from mine rock and their washing to the surface. The work received a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, and an article about it was published in the Journal of Molecular Liquids.

23 Dec 2020

Rice Scientists Make Hybrid Particles by Coupling Gold Nanoparticles with Soft Polymers

Bigger is not always better, but here's something that starts small and gets better as it gets bigger.

23 Dec 2020

New Nanomaterial from Silk of Gorse Spider Mite has Biomedical Properties

An international team of researchers has developed a new nanomaterial from the silk produced by the Tetranychus lintearius mite. This nanomaterial has the ability to penetrate human cells without damaging them and, therefore, has "promising biomedical properties".

18 Dec 2020