New drug delivery method targets cancer cells – not the entire body – and limits chemotherapy side effects.
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Setting nanomagnet domain walls into motion
Domain walls can be synchronously displaced using magnetic field pulses.
Simply melting away: dissolving polymer electronics
Iowa State scientist developing materials, electronics that dissolve when triggered.
New graphene material is reinforced with nanotube bars
Rice University lab makes hybrid nanotube-graphene material that promises to simplify manufacturing.
Degradation discovery could extend solar cell lifetime
Spiro-MeOTAD shows surprising behaviour in detailed OIST study.
Molecule alignment affects solar cell performance
Researchers find that energy is transferred more efficiently inside of complex, 3D organic solar cells when the donor molecules align face-on.
Book Review: Nanotechnology in eco-efficient construction
Professor Onuegbu Ugwu of the University of Nigeria reviews Nanotechnology in eco-efficient construction.
Characterization and standarization of polysaccharide biocatalysis
A team from the University of Groningen have published research on the enzymatic synthesis of glycosidic polysaccharide analogs and their characterization.
Quantitative image analysis in microscopy
A guide to the basics of threshold-based quantitative image analysis in microscopy, kindly sponsored by Olympus Europa.
Electrically tunable bulk ferromagnets
A team has proposed to go beyond the traditional definition of magnetoelectric phenomenon to use reversible electrochemistry as a tool to control magnetism.