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New DNA origami motor breaks speed record for nano machines
Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)
"Nanoscale motors have tremendous potential for applications in biosensing, in building synthetic cells and also for molecular robotics," says Khalid Salaita, a...
Deep-sea osmolyte makes biomolecular machines heat-tolerant
Jan 24, 2020 (SPX)
Biomolecular motors are the smallest natural machines that keep living organisms dynamic. They can generate force and perform work on their own by consuming che...
Nanobubbles in nanodroplets
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
Lasers generating high-intensity and ultra-short XUV and X-ray pulses give researchers new options for investigating the fundamental properties of matter in gre...
New production method for carbon nanotubes gets green light
Jan 08, 2020 (SPX)
Single-walled carbon nanotubes are among the most attractive nanomaterials for a wide range of applications ranging from nanoelectronics to medical sensors. The...
A quantum breakthrough brings a technique from astronomy to the nano-scale
Jan 07, 2020 (SPX)
The findings appear in a recent article published in Nature Materials, led by A. S. McLeod, postdoctoral researcher, Columbia Nano Initiative, with co-authors D...
Creating a nanoscale on-off switch for heat
Dec 19, 2019 (SPX)
Using this method, Sheng Shen, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and his research team created a polymer thermal r...
Nanoscience breakthrough: Probing particles smaller than a billionth of a meter
Dec 16, 2019 (SPX)
The study and development of novel materials have enabled countless technological breakthroughs and are essential across most fields of science, from medicine a...
SMART discovers breakthrough way to look at the surface of nanoparticles
Nov 06, 2019 (SPX)
The new process is explained in a paper titled "Measuring the Accessible Surface Area within the Nanoparticle Corona using Molecular Probe Adsorption", publishe...
Visible light and nanoparticle catalysts produce desirable bioactive molecules
Oct 31, 2019 (SPX)
Driven by light, the nanoparticle catalysts perform chemical reactions with very specific chemical products - molecules that don't just have the right chemical ...
Flexible, wearable supercapacitors based on porous nanocarbon nanocomposites
Oct 19, 2019 (SPX)
Dresses sparkling light from hundreds of small LEDs may create eye-catching effects in ballrooms or on fashion shows. But wearable electronics can also mean sen...
Scientists create a nanomaterial that is both twisted and untwisted at the same time
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists who study the nanoscale - with molecules and materials 10,000 smaller than a pinhead - need to be able to test the way that some molecules twist, kno...
Physicists create world's smallest engine
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
Work performed by Professor John Goold's QuSys group in Trinity's School of Physics describes the science behind this tiny motor. The research, published in int...
DNA origami joins forces with molecular motors to build nanoscale machines
Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)
"We have these amazing machines already in our bodies, and they work so well," said Pallav Kosuri. "We just don't know exactly how they work." For decades, rese...
DARPA Announces Microsystems Exploration Program
Jul 17, 2019 (SPX)
The Microsystems Exploration program will constitute a series of short-term investments into high-risk, high-reward research focused on technical domains releva...
Monitoring the lifecycle of tiny catalyst nanoparticles
May 07, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers at Ruhr-Universiat Bochum in cooperation with colleagues from University of Duisburg-Essen and Technical University of Munich have developed a novel...
Fast and selective optical heating for functional nanomagnetic metamaterials
Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)
Single-domain nanoscale magnets interacting via contactless magneto-static interactions are key metamaterials for magnetic data storage devices, for low-power i...
2D gold quantum dots are atomically tunable with nanotubes
Apr 17, 2019 (SPX)
Gold is a conductive material already widely used as interconnects in electronic devices. As electronics have gotten smaller and more powerful, the semiconducti...
Harnessing microorganisms for smart microsystems
Apr 16, 2019 (SPX)
The method allows movable structures to be formed in a microchannel and combined with Vorticella. In addition, the biohybrid system demonstrates the conversion ...
AD alloyed nanoantennas for temperature-feedback identification of viruses and explosives
Apr 03, 2019 (SPX)
On their basis, optical biosensory platforms and next-generation chemical sensors for fast and accurate tracing of viruses, pollutions, explosives, etc. at low ...
Quantum optical cooling of nanoparticles
Apr 03, 2019 (SPX)
While most experiments thus far have been carried out in air or liquid, there is an increasing interest for using optical tweezers to trap objects in ultra-high...
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