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Nanomaterials Mar 26, 2024

Micro-Lisa: Making a mark with novel nano-scale laser writing

High-power lasers are often used to modify polymer surfaces to make high-tech biomedical products, electronics and data storage components.

Nanomaterials Mar 19, 2024

Gold nanoclusters offer sustainable solution for wastewater polluted by dyes used in many industries

Water pollution from dyes used in textile, food, cosmetic and other manufacturing is a major ecological concern with industry and scientists seeking biocompatible and more sustainable alternatives to protect the environment.

Bio & Medicine Sep 15, 2023

New nanotech weapon takes aim at hard-to-treat breast cancer

Breast cancer in its various forms affects more than 250,000 Americans a year. One particularly aggressive and hard-to-treat type is triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), which lacks specific receptors targeted by existing ...

Bio & Medicine Sep 12, 2023

Ultrathin nanotech promises to help tackle antibiotic resistance

Researchers have invented a nano-thin superbug-slaying material that could one day be integrated into wound dressings and implants to prevent or heal bacterial infections.

Nanomaterials Aug 15, 2023

Researchers attach electrodes to individual atomically precise graphene nanoribbons

Graphene nanoribbons have outstanding properties that can be precisely controlled. Researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich, in collaboration with partners from Peking University, the University of Warwick and the Max Planck ...

Nanomaterials Aug 4, 2023

Single drop of ethanol to revolutionize nanosensor manufacture

Macquarie University engineers have developed a new technique to make the manufacture of nanosensors far less carbon-intensive, much cheaper, more efficient, and more versatile, substantially improving a key process in this ...

Nanophysics Jul 31, 2023

New nanotech identifies chemical composition and structure of impurities in air, liquid and living tissue

Using conventional testing techniques, it can be challenging—sometimes impossible—to detect harmful contaminants such as nano-plastics, air pollutants and microbes in living organisms and natural materials. These contaminants ...

Bio & Medicine Apr 26, 2023

Going for gold: Nanotech design opens door to new cancer treatments

To develop cancer drugs, researchers often have to make tough trade-offs. Most drugs potent enough to kill tumors also cause unpleasant side effects—and may end up doing more harm than good. Now, researchers and clinicians ...

Nanophysics Apr 26, 2023

Researchers use nanoparticles to increase light frequency and resolution of imaging systems

Physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) are using nanoparticles to develop new sources of light that will allow us to "peel back the curtain" into the world of extremely small objects—thousands of times smaller ...

Nanophysics Jan 23, 2023

Nanotech turns to shark skin and dragonfly wings

Shark skin and dragonfly wings are two of nanotechnology researchers' favorite things in new studies looking for solutions to maritime and medical mysteries.

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