Science

A spoonful of sugar in silver nanoparticles to regulate their toxicity

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This is a microscope image of a cell with silver nanoparticles with green fluorescence and red-stained nucleus.

Laser-generated surface structures create extremely water-repellent metals: Super-hydrophobic properties could lead to applications in solar panels, sanitation and as rust-free metals

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Professor Chunlei Guo has developed a technique that uses lasers to render materials hydrophobic, illustrated in this image of a water...

Hydrogels deliver on blood-vessel growth: Rice researchers introduce improved injectable scaffold to promote healing

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A microscopic image shows the extensive infiltration of robust blood vessels (red) in a new hydrogel scaffold developed at Rice University...

Magnetic Nanosorbents Able to Eliminate Chemical Contaminants

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Nanotechnology Used to Produce Ceramic Membrane with High Thermal Stability

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Solving an Organic Semiconductor Mystery

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Sketch of organic semiconductor thin film shows that the interfacial region between...

Nanoparticles for clean drinking water

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Nanoparticles Able to Eliminate Pathogen Bacteria Biofilm

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