Nanotechnology offers many benefits that can be leveraged to increase the potency of vaccine formulations. For anticancer vaccination, antigenic material can be collected directly from a patient's resected tumor, formulated into a biomimetic nanoparticle, and then administered back into the patient to promote tumor-specific immunity. For antibacterial vaccination, strain-specific virulence factors or membrane can be immobilized onto nanoparticle substrates, and the resulting complexes can be used to vaccinate patients with an identified risk against the associated pathogen.
Combined optical and torque measurements establish the microscopic mechanism linking magnetism and electronic-band topology in a Dirac material.
Drops of water falling on or sliding over surfaces may leave behind traces of electrical charge, causing the drops to charge themselves. Scientists have now begun a detailed investigation into this phenomenon that accompanies us in every-day life.
Researchers have developed a tiny unit with perovskite diodes that is both an optical transmitter and a receiver. This is highly significant for the miniaturisation of optoelectronic systems.
Researchers have invented a machine-learning based algorithm for quantitatively characterizing, in three dimensions, materials with features as small as nanometers.
Turning a brittle oxide into a flexible membrane and stretching it on a tiny apparatus flipped it from a conducting to an insulating state and changed its magnetic properties.
Biochemists have created 'smart' proteins that function inside human cells by turning genes on and off.