Nanotechnology/Micromachines

Drug-loaded nanoparticles bound to circulating red blood cells inhibit lung cancer metastasis Chemotherapy has been the backbone of cancer treatment for decades, but it is notorious for its toxicity to healthy cells, severe side effects,…

Rice University-printed sample is full of holes, but stops bullets better than solid materialsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 13, 2019) - A lightweight material full of holes is nearly as hard as diamond.…

Credit: © Harald Plank, Institute of Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis at TU Graz In the nanometer range, complex, free-standing 3D architectures are very difficult to produce in a single step due to the required precision. In the…

Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b00850 To seamlessly integrate electronics with the natural world, materials are needed that are both stretchable and degradable -- for example, flexible medical…

Deploying the helium-ion microscope at the HZDR to manipulate nanoscale material properties.Credit: HZDR / A. Wirsig In collaboration with colleagues from the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW)…

Credit: Source: M. Krol, UW Physics An international research collaboration from Poland, the UK and Russia has created a two-dimensional system - a thin optical cavity filled with liquid crystal - in which they trapped…

First theoretical demonstration of both in-plane and out-of-plane spinCredit: FLEET A Monash University study revealing new spin textures in pyrite could unlock these materials' potential in future spintronics devices. The…

All-printed large-scale integrated circuits based on organic electrochemical transistorsCredit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at Linköping University and RISE, Campus Norrköping, have shown for the first time that it is possible to…

Credit: CIC nanoGUNE The EU-funded research project SPRING (SPin Research IN Graphene) has celebrated its kickoff meeting on Nov. 7-8, 2019 in Donostia/San Sebastián (Spain). The meeting marks the starting point of a 4-year research…

Researchers from Kanazawa University use electrical polarization to control magnetic properties aiming for advanced memory applicationsCredit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan--The ability to control the magnetic properties of a…