Material & Energy

Nano Drug Delivery Advancement Discloses New Opportunities for the Treatment of Pulmonary Fibrosis

Credit: Lung Disease NewsA current advancement publication by researchers at the Masonic Medical Research Institute has discovered a novel way of treating pulmonary fibrosis. This progressive, incurable disease leads to the stiffening of the lungs through scarring, using nanoparticles.However, nano drug delivery is a promising field that offers significant possibilities for the treatment of...

Scientists Create a New Device to Detect Brain Tumors Using Urine

Microscopic image of nanowires. Credit: Dr Takao YasuiAt Nagoya University in Japan, researchers have used a new device to spot an essential membrane protein in the urine, indicating whether the patient has a brain tumors.This protein could be utilized to spot brain cancer, preventing the need for invasive tests and enhancing the probability of...

Physicists Produce the First Two-Dimensional Ferrimagnetism in Graphene

Graphic diagram depicting the Hall effect in the system under investigation. Credit: SPbUResearchers from St. Petersburg College and their international associates have created the globe's first two-dimensional ferromagnetism in graphene. The use of the obtained magnetic state of graphene can become the basis of a current method to electronics, increasing its energy efficiency and...

Scientists Have Created Current, Heat-Efficient Nanoparticles For Treating Cancer

Nanoparticles accumulate in tumor. Credit: Olena Taratula, Oleh Taratula, OSU College of PharmacyOregon State College researchers have invented a way to make magnetic nanoparticles that obtain hotter than any previous nanoparticle, improving their cancer-combating ability.Faculty from the OSU University of Drugstore led a partnership that created an advanced thermal decomposition technique for creating nanoparticles...

A New Energy Storage System Can Store Solar Power For Nearly 20 Years

And it releases energy on demand.MOST – Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage Systems. Credit: Chalmers University of TechnologyA press statement discloses that scientists from Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology developed an energy storage system that holds solar power in liquid form for approximately 18 years.With the help of researchers from China's Shanghai Jiao Tong...

Faster and Much More Efficient Computer Chips Thanks to Germanium

a) Schematic illustration of the Al-Si1−xGex-Al heterostructure after the thermally induced Al-Si1−xGex exchange. b) False-color SEM image showing an actual device. The zoomed-in view shows a schematic of the epitaxially grown Si-Si1−x. Credit: Small (2022). DOI: 10.1002/smll.202204178TU Wien (Vienna) has done well in making a new sort of material usable for chip technology with germanium and silicon....

Electrons Zoom Along Quantum Highways in New Material

Scientists showed how MnBi6Te10, shown here in purple (tellurium), blue (bismuth) and green (manganese), can act as a magnetic topological insulator, conducting electrical current (blue) along a “quantum highway” without losing energy. The study revealed that a concerted action of different material defects is key to the quantum electronic properties. Credit: University of ChicagoQuantum...

Acts Like a Plastic But Conducts Like Metal

Credit: © fox17 / stock.adobe.comResearchers at the University of Chicago have found a means to produce a material that resembles plastic yet conducts electricity more like a metal.Like a metal?The research, released on Oct. 26 in Nature, shows how to produce a sort of material wherein the molecular fragments are shuffled and disordered but...

Scientists 3D Print Degradable Polymers Utilizing Salt

Texas A&M University researchers are using 3D printing and salt to create environmentally friendly polymers that will degrade over time. Credit: Texas A&M Engineering.Dr. Emily Pentzer, an associate educator in the Division of Materials Science and Engineering and the Division of Chemistry at Texas A&M College, makes 3D printed polymers more environmentally friendly with a...

Investigators Look Into Combating Tumours With Magnetic Bacteria

Magnetic bacteria (gray) can squeeze through narrow intercellular spaces to cross the blood vessel wall and infiltrate tumors. Credit: Yimo Yan / ETH ZurichScientists worldwide are investigating how anti-cancer drugs can most efficiently reach the tumours they target. One probability is to use modified bacteria as "ferries" to bring the medications with the blood...