nanomaterial
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The new electrodes combine MXene, a highly conductive two-dimensional nanomaterial developed by Drexel researchers in 2011, with silver nanowires.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 15, 2026
Soon, the Johnsons and Gianneschi were discussing the possibility of the UW-Madison lab providing mouse model brain cells needed to test Gianneschi's protein-like nanomaterial.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
The nanomaterial alters the interaction between two key proteins in brain cells -- with a potentially powerful therapeutic effect.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
Noah Stocek, a PhD student collaborating with Western University physicist Giovanni Fanchini, has developed a new nanomaterial that demonstrates the opposite of this phenomenon.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024
She makes a sharp left into a lab where her nanomaterial collection bags are already stacked on her lab table.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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"Electrons are the lightest players in the plasma, but when they become magnetized, they dictate the rules. That simple change can completely alter how nanomaterials form."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2026
"When we looked deeper into how our bioactive nanomaterials were helping tissue repair, SerpinB3, a protein originally implicated in cancer, jumped at us as a key factor that correlated with nanomaterial-driven wound healing," Rege said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025
Hybrid nanostructures between biomolecules and inorganic nanomaterials constitute a largely unexplored field of research, with the potential for novel applications in bioimaging, biosensing, and nanomedicine.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024
But despite its science fiction trappings, the show is often based in real — and complex — scientific concepts, whether string theory or nanomaterials.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
Together they imagined how nanomaterials that don’t yet exist — or exist only in minute quantities in carefully controlled lab conditions — could be deployed.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
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