New Nanotechnology Allows for Touchless Optical Finger Motion Tracking
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute have developed nanostructures that change their electrical and even their optical properties as soon as a finger comes anywhere…
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Bioadhesive Nanoparticles Help Protect Your Skin From the Sun
Dermatologists from Yale University have developed a new sunscreen made with bioadhesive nanoparticles that doesn’t penetrate the skin, eliminating serious health concerns associated with commercial…
Aluminum “Yolk-and-Shell” Nanoparticle Boosts Capacity and Power of Lithium-ion Batteries
New research from MIT and Tsinghua University in China reveals that an aluminum “yolk-and-shell” nanoparticle could boost the capacity and power of lithium-ion batteries. One…
Nanoparticles and UV Light Clean Up Environmental Pollutants
A new study from MIT shows how nanoparticles can clean up environmental pollutants, revealing that nanomaterials and UV light can “trap” chemicals for easy removal…
Nanoparticles Shut Down Cancer Growth
Using nanoparticles to deliver a nucleic acid (siRNA) into tumor cells in mouse models, scientists from UCLA and City of Hope have become the first…
BLAST Delivers Large Particles Into Cells at High Speed
A newly developed device can deliver nanoparticles, enzymes, antibodies, bacteria and other “large-sized” cargo into mammalian cells at speeds up to 100,000 cells per minute….
A New Nanoparticle-Based Sensor System for Rapidly Screening Cancer Drugs
Chemists at Umass Amherst have developed a multi-channel signature-based approach to screening drugs using a gold nanoparticles with red, green and blue outputs provided by…
Engineered Liposomes: A Possible Alternative to Antibiotics
By engineering artificial nanoparticles made of lipids, scientists have developed a treatment for bacterial infections without using antibiotics. Scientists from the University of Bern have…
Solid Nanoparticles Keep Their Internal Structure While Deforming Like a Liquid
Using a combination of laboratory analysis and computer modeling, new research shows that nanoparticles keep their internal crystal structure while deforming like a liquid. A…
New Method to Control Nanoparticles with Light and Magnets
A team of researchers has developed particles that can glow with color-coded light and be manipulated with magnets, improving the likelihood of tracking the position…
Nanoparticles Allows Physicists to Select the Direction of Light
Using an unusual kind of coupling between spin and the direction of propagation, physicists from the Vienna University of Technology are able to select the…
Researchers Track Interactions Between Individual DNA Molecule Segments
Using an optical microstructure and gold nanoparticles, researchers at the Max Planck Institute have amplified the interaction of light with DNA to the extent that…
Self-Assembling Nanoparticle Targets Tumors, Helps Doctors Diagnose Cancer Earlier
Researchers at Imperial College London have designed a new self-assembling nanoparticle that targets tumors, helping doctors diagnose cancer earlier. The new nanoparticle, developed by researchers…
Engineers Design and Test a New Class of Solar-Sensitive Nanoparticles
University of Toronto researchers have designed and tested a new form of solid, stable light-sensitive nanoparticles that could lead to cheaper and more flexible solar…
Nanoparticle Thin Films That Self-Assemble in One Minute
By combining supramolecules based on block copolymers with gold nanoparticles, Berkeley Lab researchers have created self-assembling nanoparticle arrays that can form a highly ordered thin…
New Observations Reveal the Inner Workings of Lithium-Ion Batteries
MIT researchers show the inner workings of a lithium-ion battery, revealing how a random solid solution affects the movement of ions through battery material. New…
UCLA Scientists Use Nanoparticles to Control Molecular Growth of Materials
Scientists from UCLA have developed a new process that uses nanoparticles to control molecular growth within the “building block” components of inorganic materials. Growth is…
RNA-Carrying Nanoparticles Deliver siRNA to Endothelial Cells with High Efficiency
Researchers have designed RNA-carrying nanoparticles that can deliver siRNA to endothelial cells with high efficiency, raising the possibility of treating many types of disease, including…