nanomaterial
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Researchers at Oregon State University have created a new nanomaterial designed to destroy cancer cells from the inside.
From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026
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
This approach simply did not work because any chemical reaction, the most common process, would lead to a product different from the desired nanomaterial.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 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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