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Researchers demonstrate
nanoscale particles that ordinary light sources can set spinning.
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Nanoscale Particles
Sophisticated microscopic instruments were used to look for iron - containing
nanoscale particles — specifically locating them from thousands of aerosol particles.
Researchers may have come a step closer to producing diverse microscopic and
nanoscale particles for high - tech materials and drug delivery.
The interaction between the laser light and the plasmons is critical for sensing tiny displacements from
nanoscale particles, notes Aksyuk.
Just as a home ink - jet printer draws letters using ink, Nanoident's printer drizzles liquid polymer or a solution of
nanoscale particles in a chosen pattern.
This goes further than the current philosophy in the United States, where, for instance,
nanoscale particles of titanium dioxide (a chemical used in sunscreens and paints) are not considered different from larger - scale particles of titanium dioxide.
Wilson, the sporting goods manufacturer, has nanoengineered layers of clay to double the playing life of its Double Core tennis balls; L'Oréal uses
nanoscale particles and capsules in their cosmetic creams that allow replenishing ingredients to penetrate deep into the skin; and the Australian company Advanced Powder Technology has created Zinclear, a translucent zinc oxide sunblock composed of nanoparticles as small as the tiniest known viruses.
One new study found that
nanoscale particles can cross into the womb through the placenta.
Artificial
nanoscale particles might prove a good trucking device.
Not exact matches
Metal oxides such as zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are increasingly being used in sunscreens and cosmetics in the form of nanoparticles — microscopic
particles of matter measured on the
nanoscale.
A collection of
particles containing
nanoscale computers to orchestrate those transformations could theoretically assume any form.
The microscope's nanometer resolution will allow researchers to track
particles floating in colloidal solutions (for example,
nanoscale beads floating in a sample of paint) using equipment that is at least a tenth of the cost of an electron microscope.
Unlike those who focus on the very large aspects of physics (superenergetic
particle accelerators and massive black holes, for instance), Natelson is an evangelist for condensed matter and
nanoscale, sharing his excitement on his popular blog (www.
nanoscale.blogspot.com).
Tuning the material structure at the
nanoscale level can be really hard to achieve — but what if we had small
particles, which assemble all by themselves, creating the required structure?
Essentially, it is extremely difficult to squeeze and blend different elements into individual
particles at the
nanoscale.
In further tests, researchers stimulated sensitive long hairs on the spider's legs and body — previously known to pick up near - field airflow and vibrations — which generated a response in the same neurons that fired after hearing distant sounds, providing evidence the hairs are likely detecting
nanoscale air
particles that become excited from a sound wave.
An X-ray microscopy technique recently developed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has given scientists the ability to image
nanoscale changes inside lithium - ion battery
particles as they charge and discharge.
The images chronicle the evolution of the
particles» chemical composition and reaction rates at a
nanoscale spatial resolution and a minute - by - minute time resolution.
The new study builds on a technique developed in 2013 by Sleiman's research group to make
nanoscale «cages» from strands of DNA, and stuff them with lipid - like polymer chains that fold together into a ball - shaped
particle that can contain cargo such as drug molecules.
Because the «
nanoscale - sculpturing» process not only creates a 3D surface structure, which can be purely physically bonded without chemicals, the targeted etching can also remove harmful
particles from the surface, which is of particularly great interest in medical technology.
At the
nanoscale, strange almost -
particles called excitons do the same trick.
«This approach can be used to build periodic lattices from optically active
particles, such as gold, silver and any other material that can be modified with DNA, with extraordinary
nanoscale precision,» said Mirkin, director of Northwestern's International Institute for Nanotechnology.
At temperatures below 300 degrees Celsius (572 degrees Fahrenheit), the tiny gold - alloy
particles, now swathed with water molecules, etch
nanoscale pits into the indium phosphide.
The sensor is made of a plastic material embedded with tiny
particles of nickel with
nanoscale spikes protruding from their surface.
«Both of the intra-
particle and inter-
particle effects we saw represent first - of - their kind observations involving individual nanocatalysts and our results provide a new sort of conceptual framework for understanding how a
nanoscale catalyst
particle works.»
Researchers show that
particles on a
nanoscale actually fluctuate more than we expect on a macro scale and develop new procedures to test what exactly is happening on the level of our increasingly miniature technology.
An X-ray microscopy technique recently developed at the Advanced Light Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, images
nanoscale changes inside lithium - ion battery
particles as they charge and discharge.
Ferrofluids are colloidal liquids made of
nanoscale magnetic
particles suspended in a liquid.
Titled «
Nanoscale spectroscopic and mechanical characterization of individual aerosol
particles using peak force infrared microscopy,» the article appeared in an «Emerging Investigators» issue of Chemical Communications, a journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Each
particle of the material was built using two types of silicone in a structure that looks a lot like a
nanoscale sponge.
Now, a collaboration of researchers has used a
particle in an optical trap to obtain
nanoscale 3D images of optically dense collagen networks, exploiting what had initially seemed a setback for the technique — Brownian motion.
Biological applications discussed included
nanoscale clustering of membrane proteins (particularly during synaptic and T cell signalling in mammalian cells), molecular assembly / organisation of protein complexes, and single
particle tracking.
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