All Nanotechnology
Chemists use DNA to build the world’s tiniest antenna
Added: 14 Jan 2022
Inspired by the ‘Lego-like’ properties of DNA, with building blocks that are typically 20,000 times…
Electron diffraction: A technique suggesting radically new things
Added: 11 Jan 2022
Crystallography mainly relies on diffraction techniques and the most recent of them, electron diffr…
Picodroplet microfluidics - specialist chemicals for single cell analysis
Added: 10 Jan 2022
Picodroplet microfluidics is used to isolate single cells for high-throughput single cell analysis.…
Renewable energy's hybrid fuel blue hydrogen can help protect the climate
Added: 2 Dec 2021
Blue hydrogen - a renewable fuel hybrid technology - can play a positive role in the energy transit…
New microscope uses photonics to gain insights into ‘superbugs’
Added: 25 Nov 2021
Scientists are building a new super-resolution microscope that uses laser light to study the inner …
How to gain Chinese regulation compliance
Added: 12 Nov 2021
Dr Paul Orange outlines the project which led to his involvement in the new Chinese battery protoco…
Making polymers perform – a research and technical transfer story
Added: 23 Jul 2021
How do you set up and grow a new science-based technology company? Here, we uncover how Dr Don Well…
New shape-changing materials brings soft robotics to life
Added: 23 Jul 2021
Imagine opening up a book of nature photos only to see a kaleidoscope of graceful butterflies flutt…
SoyFilm: Is this the end of fossil fuel single-use plastics?
Added: 10 Jun 2021
At last! A sustainable, scalable and 100 percent natural plant protein-based polymer that functions…
Commercial quanta image sensors - a new era in solid-state imaging
Added: 27 May 2021
Solid-state technology capable of imaging individual photons of light to enable full-speed photon c…
First virtual symposium on quantum technology, semiconductors, and power generation
Added: 24 May 2021
Oxford Instruments plc is pleased to announce its first Virtual Symposium on Quantum Technology, Se…
3D-printed hydrogels with improved tunable properties
Added: 14 May 2021
The design of 3D-printable seaweed hydrogels that use multiple interpenetrating networks to enable …
Pre-programmed degradation makes 'biodegradable' plastics truly compostable
Added: 22 Apr 2021
By embedding polymer-eating enzymes in plastic, researchers have found a way to make previously tri…
Expansion microscopy: Imaging biological samples at nanoscale using an ordinary light microscope
Added: 9 Apr 2021
Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers have devised a technique for imaging biological s…
'Team ice' uncover crucial information to aid the development of new more active cryoprotectants
Added: 17 Mar 2021
Researchers uncover new understanding around the interactions between synthetic polymers and ice fo…
Laboratory Management: Monitoring the cold chain
Added: 5 Mar 2021
With many COVID vaccines relying on ultra-low temperature storage, Matt Feeny explains why and how …
A novel light harvesting engine strings buckyballs and chromophores on DNA
Added: 26 Feb 2021
Researchers have synthesised a novel type of organic light-harvesting supramolecule by arranging fl…
Kinky graphene 'straintronics' for smaller, faster microchips
Added: 16 Feb 2021
Using 'straintronics' rather than electronics, researchers have produced the tiniest microchips yet…
Droplet formation at the nanoscale
Added: 4 Feb 2021
It is surprising to find such everyday physics in the nanoscale world of molecular biology, but whe…
Antiviral coating kills viruses and bacteria for product lifetime
Added: 26 Jan 2021
Can you imagine a world where you wouldn't have to worry about disease transmission from surfaces s…
