Osaka University researchers create new material based on gold and black phosphorus to produce clean hydrogen fuel using the full spectrum of sunlight. Hydrogen can be generated by splitting H2O, but this uses more energy than the produced hydrogen can give back. Water splitting is often driven by solar power, so-called “solar-to-hydrogen” conversion...
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Technique targets disease, spares nearby tissues. For the first time, WSU researchers have demonstrated a way to deliver a drug to a tumor by attaching it to a white blood cell. The innovation could let doctors target tumors with anticancer drugs that might otherwise damage healthy tissues. A team led by Zhenjia Wang, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences attached a nanoscale particle to a WBC. The showed they could get a drug past the armor of blood vessels that typically shield a tumor. This has been a major challenge in nanotechnology drug delivery.
Wang implanted a tumor on the flank of a mouse commonly chosen as...
Read MoreResearchers at the Nanoscience Center (NSC) of the University of Jyväskylä and BioMediTech (BMT) of the University of Tampere have now demonstrated a method to fabricate electronic devices by using DNA. The DNA itself has no part in the electrical function, but acts as a scaffold for forming a linear, pearl-necklace-like nanostructure consisting of 3 gold nanoparticles.
The nature of electrical conduction in nanoscale materials can differ vastly from regular, macroscale metallic structures, which have countless free electrons forming the current, th...
Read MoreResearchers from the University of Georgia are giving new meaning to the phrase “turning rust into gold”—and making the use of gold in research settings and industrial applications far more affordable. They combine small amounts of gold nanoparticles with magnetic rust nanoparticles to create a hybrid nanostructure that retains both the properties of gold and rust. “Medieval alchemists tried to create gold from other metals,” she said...
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