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New ‘self-healing’ gel makes electronics more flexible

Today

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a first-of-its-kind…
Nano-walkers take speedy leap forward with first rolling DNA-based motor

Yesterday

Fastest DNA motor holds potential for disease diagnostics Physical chemists have devised a rolling DNA-based motor that’s 1,000…
Tiny octopods catalyze bright ideas

2 days ago

Nanoscale octopods that do double duty as catalysts and plasmonic sensors are lighting a path toward more efficient…
Coming to a monitor near you: a defect-free, molecule-thick film

6 days ago

An emerging class of atomically thin materials known as monolayer semiconductors has generated a great deal of buzz…
Graphene Microphone is 32 Times More Sensitive than its Nickel Counterparts

6 days ago

Acoustic performance of a condenser microphone is derived mainly from the size of the membrane (the part that…
Strange quantum phenomenon achieved at room temperature in semiconductor wafers

November 26, 2015

Entanglement is one of the strangest phenomena predicted by quantum mechanics, the theory that underlies most of modern…
Nanoscientists develop safer, faster way to remove pollutants from water

November 24, 2015

A team of researchers from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has found a new way to use…
Electric Fields Remove Nanoparticles From Blood With Ease

November 23, 2015

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego developed a new technology that uses an oscillating electric field…
A Precision Medicine Approach to Nanomedicine: New Method Developed to Predict Response to Nanotherapeutics

November 20, 2015

Many nanotherapeutics are currently being tested in clinical trials and several have already been clinically approved to treat…
Quantum Spin Could Create Unstoppable, One-Dimensional Electron Waves

November 19, 2015

New theory points the way forward to transform atom-thin materials into powerful conductors In certain nanomaterials, electrons are…
Researchers detail how to control shape, structure of DNA and RNA

November 19, 2015

Researchers at North Carolina State University have used computational modelling to shed light on precisely how charged gold…
Quantum dots made from fool’s gold boost battery performance

November 19, 2015

If you add quantum dots – nanocrystals 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair –…