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| Aptamers. Aptasensors. "... small size, chemical stability and cost effectiveness over conventional bioreceptors such as antibodies."
"Aptamers are a promising class of agents for biomolecules detection due to their small size, chemical stability and cost effectiveness over conventional bioreceptors such as antibodies."1
Researchers from School of Engineering, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia; have presented an article titled:..... |
| Nanophotonics. Silicon microring modulator.
"... GHz modulation in a 2.5 microm radius silicon micro-ring, with only 150 mV peak-peak drive voltage and an electro-optic modal volume of only 2 microm(3)."1
Researchers from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, and Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale..... |
| Nano-bioactive glass. Bioactive hybrid membrane. Bone regeneration.
"... bone regeneration potential of a novel hybrid membrane consisting of collagen and nano-bioactive glass (nBG) incorporating basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF2) for use in guided bone regeneration."1
Researchers from Institute of Tissue Regeneration Engineering, Dankook University, Cheonan, South Korea;..... |
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| Skin exposure. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles. "... most TiO(2) particles were localized in the interfollicular stratum disjunctum and the keratinized layer of follicular infundibulum."
"... animal skin exposed to W/O emulsion containing 10 wt % ultrafine TiO(2) particles that had been characterized."1
Researchers from Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine of Sensory and Motor Organs, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Japan; have presented an article titled: "In..... |
| Carbon nanotube forest. Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have reported "... a laser power detector coated with the world's darkest material?a forest of carbon nanotubes that reflects almost no light across the visible and part of the infrared spectrum."
More from a Release dated August 18,..... |
| Superconductors. "... found to perform optimally when high- and low-charge density varies on the nanoscale level ..." Jack Wells, from the Office of Institutional Planning, has said:
"Cuprates and other chemical compounds used as superconductors require very cold temperatures, nearing absolute zero, to transition from a phase of resistance to no resistance ..."
"The goal following the Gordon Bell Prize was to take that ..... |
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| Quantum dots. "… nonblinking quantum dot for incessant and on-demand light emission, donor-acceptor systems for efficient solar energy harvesting …"
"The photoluminescence of semiconductor quantum dots and fluorescence of single molecules intermittently turn ON and OFF, a phenomenon referred to as blinking."1
Researchers from Nano-bioanalysis Group, Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Takamatsu,..... |
| Nanotube enzyme coating. MRSA."... lysostaphin, a naturally occurring enzyme used by non-pathogenic strains of Staph bacteria to defend against Staphylococcus aureus, including MRSA." Jonathan S Dordick, Director of Rensselaer's Center for Biotechnology ;amp; Interdisciplinary Studies, has said:
"We're building on nature ..."
"Here we have a system where the surface contains an enzyme that is safe to handle, doesn't appear to lead to resistance, doesn't leach into the environment,..... |
| Quantum-dot-array diffraction grating. Nanofabrication. Gold transmission grating.
"A gold transmission grating is used routinely to disperse the x-ray spectrum at the Z soft x-ray facility to measure the spectrum and temporal history of the absolute soft x-ray power emitted from z-pinch and hohlraum radiation sources."1
Researchers from Key Laboratory of Plasma Science and Technology,..... |
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| Bimodal magnetic-fluorescence. Bioimages.
"Fluorescent optical probes have been intensively used in the area of bio-imaging."1
Researchers from Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore; have presented an article titled: "Bimodal magnetic-fluorescent probes for bioimaging."
The researchers from Institute of Singapore have..... |
| ZnO nanorods. Laser-assisted hydrothermal growth.
"Pulsed laser irradiation is used to seed the low-temperature hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanorods."1
Researchers from Nano-Electronics Centre, Advanced Technology Institute, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom; have presented an article..... |
| Graphene. "... attaining this high signal-to-noise ratio has been a challenge for both single and bi-layers of graphene ..." Yuegang Zhang, DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has said:
"For single-layer graphene we found that the noise was reduced either close to or far away from the lowest electron density of states, sometimes referred to as the Dirac point for graphene, forming an M-shaped pattern."
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| Plasmonic nanostructures. "... applications in photoelectroctalysis and biosensing."
"Electrodeposition is used for the preparation of nanoparticles and nanostructures that allow, in principle, surface plasmon excitation."1
Researchers from Institute for Solar Fuels and Energy Storage Materials, Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy, Berlin, Germany; have presented an article titled:..... |
| Cheaper lithium batteries. "... change how they incorporate the carbon coating on the LMP nanoplates, which might improve their charge and discharge rates." Daiwon Choi from the U. S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has said:
"Paraffin provides a medium in which to grow good electrode materials ..."
"This method will help researchers investigate cathode materials based on cheaper transition metals such as manganese or..... |
| Insulin nanoparticles. Chitosan. "... efficiency of enteric nanoparticles for oral delivery of insulin."
"Insulin is a polypeptide hormone and usually administered for treatment of diabetic patients subcutaneously."1
Researchers from Faculty of Pharmacy, Drug Applied Research Center, Biotechnology Research Center, Research Center for Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz,..... |
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| Prussian blue nanocomposites. "... green preparation, as-prepared GO-PB nanocomposites have great potential in the field of electrochemical sensor and biofuel cell."
"A facile and green method for the synthesis of graphene oxide sheets (GOs)-prussian blue nanocomposites has been presented via a spontaneous redox reaction in a aqueous solution containing FeCl(3), K(3)[Fe(CN)(6)] and graphene oxide sheets."1
Researchers from College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui..... |
| Quantum jumps. Quantum dots. Real-time images. "The prevailing wisdom in the field of quantum mechanics was that the on and off blinking episodes were not correlated." Boldizsár Jankó and researchers from the University of Notre Dame have informed:
"... virtually all known fluorophores, including fluorescent quantum dots, rods and wires, exhibit unexplainable episodes of intermittent blinking in their emission."
"The prevailing wisdom in the field of quantum mechanics..... |
| Plasmonics. "By combining various nanoscale optical devices, it may be possible to build integrated nanophotonic circuits, offering substantial improvements in bandwidth and speed for next-generation information technologies." Science in China Press has reported:
"Surface plasmons are quanta of collective oscillations of free electrons at metal-insulator interface, usually excited by photons."
"Since it was first proposed in 1950s by Ritchie, new interests have been aroused due to recent advances in synthesis and fabrica-tion..... |