nano materials

Prof. Danny Mandler. Photo credit - Hebrew University Spokesperson

New antibacterial coatings for medical implants will prevent infections

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A model of a restored tooth with the original composite (left) and with the improved composite containing the antibacterial nanostructures (right). Credit: Lee Schneider, Tel Aviv University

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed antibacterial nanostructures that can be incorporated into dental restoration materials (fillings)

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And there was the face plane: the process of turning a nematic elastomer sheet into a face-like curved three-dimensional surface. Illustration: Dr. Hillel Aharoni's laboratory, Weizmann Institute

What do liquid crystals and wrinkle formation have in common?

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Smart window - transparent mode. Ben Gurion University photo

A new method for preparing a photonic metamaterial from liquid crystals used for the production of smart windows

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nanometer structures (photo: shutterstock)

A combination of nanophotonics and deep learning will accelerate the development of nanoscale structures

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From gears to crowns for teeth - XNUMXD printing is approaching industrial production capacity

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Air pollution in Beijing. Photo: 大杨.

New window screens will filter air pollutants

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Illustration: pixabay.

The synthetic melanin that will act as a natural radiation filter

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A nanocapsule of nucleic acids and peptides that releases the medicine inside in response to defined enzymes. (1) in the first step the peptide undergoes cross-linking on the surface of the nanoparticle; (2) In the next step, a defined enzyme recognizes the peptide cross-linking group, (3) and in the last step, the enzyme's release leads to the release of the drug or the nucleic acids that were locked inside the capsule. Courtesy: Joseph Luciani/UConn.

An innovative system for delivering drugs in the body

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Gold nano-allotropes in a transmission electron microscope (top) and electron tomography (bottom). Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Dwarven architecture

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The Ribbonfish. Source: NOAA.

Bright fish skin is the inspiration for nanometer reflectors

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Source: pixabay.

Micro-surface cleaning inspired by the honey bee treatment system

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Illustration: pixabay.

Print a microscope

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No washing!

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Computer simulation of the atomistic model of the particle. It can be seen that the material moved by the diamond needle accumulates at the edge of the particle and creates unique steps, which are later used as "guide rails" that return to the footprint, by diffusion, the material moved to the side. After a time the particle returns to its original shape. Source: Courtesy of the Technion.

The gold remembers

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Membrane for water purification. High economic viability. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Recycle membrane

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Illustration of the experiment. The irregular layers are deposited on the surface of a prism and illuminated with laser radiation. Source: Technion.

Researchers have succeeded in creating sensing at the nanometer scale using visible light

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Researchers have developed a new method to treat atherosclerosis

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Graphene sheet. Source: AlexanderAlUS / Wikimedia.

Has a cheap and efficient method been found to produce graphene?

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The graphene layer (gray) leads the nanomedicine (white, red and blue) to the outer wall of the cell (yellow and red). Source: Courtesy of IBM.

Researchers at IBM have discovered a new way to stimulate an immune response in the body using nanomaterials

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An example of biomimicry: researchers imitated the array of cracks they uncovered in the pearl shell to create glass 200 times stronger than normal glass. Photo: Didier Descouens / Wikimedia.

Smart materials inspired by nature

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Diagram from the article, which presents the innovative method developed: "We pack tiny amounts of the anti-cancer drugs inside dedicated nanoparticles that we developed. The uniqueness of these nanometer packages is that they flow in the bloodstream to the tumor and there are swallowed by the cancer cells. To these packages we attach "In advance, artificial DNA sequences are used as barcode readers of the drug's activity in the cancer cells. After 48 hours, a sample (biopsy) is taken from the tumor, and the barcode analysis provides accurate information on the cells that were destroyed (or not) by each drug." Source: Zvi Yaari et al., Theranostic barcoded nanoparticles for personalized cancer medicine, Nature Communications 7, 2016.

Personalized medicine for cancer treatment

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The laboratory staff, from the right: laboratory engineer Yevgeni Linder, Mia Barzilai (doctoral student), Assaf Hershkovitz (master's degree), Itamar Holzman (toward a master's degree), Alon Avidor (bachelor's degree), Dr. Cecil Shagia (senior scientist) and Dr. Yachin Hebrew. Source: Technion spokesmen.

Collective Memory

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BASF will use Landa's nanopigment technology in a new line of easy-to-disperse, ultra-high transparency pigments for water-based automotive coatings Photo credit: BASF

Israeli nano pigments will allow BASF to upgrade the production of paints for the automotive industry

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Northern forest. FROM PIXABAY.COM

The natural glue that makes plant cells rigid

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A copper strip that has been "nano-sculpted". Photo: Kyle University

Metal connection to all types of surfaces

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The lightest knit in the world. Photo: Boeing PR

The world's lightest metal inspired by human bone

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Self-repairing coated fabrics. From left to right: fabric with a hole in the center, wet fabric and patched with a drop of water, fabric after self-repair. [Courtesy: Demirel Lab / Penn State]

Fabrics that repair themselves and neutralize toxins

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A method for preparing drug carriers and their nanometric structure. The capture and release of the drug depends on the temperature surrounding the carrier system. [Courtesy: Igor Potemkin/Scientific Reports]

Nanocapsules for the precise transport of drugs

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A flexible electronic material that repairs itself. PHOTO FROM YOUTUBE - COURTESY OF PENN STATE UNIVERSITY

A flexible electronic material that repairs itself

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A new material has been developed that is quickly absorbed into the cells and which consists of crystalline sheets (nanosurfaces) trapped inside lipoprotein nanoparticles that allows a stable and constant emission of bright light. [Courtesy: Sung Jun Lim, University of Illinois]

Lipoprotein nanosurfaces for biological imaging

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A single crystal of nanoporous gold. Photo courtesy of Dr. Boaz Pokroy, Technion

For the first time in history - scientists at the Technion created a porous gold single crystal in collaboration with the particle accelerator in Grenoble, France

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2. Imaging image. Right: Schematic drawing of the various sensing operations of the platform - touch, heat and volatile particles. Left: photograph and diagram of the chemical resistor; Below: the different parts of the sensor (substrate, electrode and the nanometer sensing layer) before and after a directed scratch. Within 10 minutes the sensor begins to repair itself and return to normal work. Courtesy of Prof. Hosem Haik, Technion

Nanoscale materials will help the chip heal itself following damage

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A closed molecular cage nanostructure produced using highly concentrated sunlight has been revealed

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loading halloysite nanotubes with the drug from its saturated solution; (b,c mixing the mineral in the drug solution, removing air from the tubes, introducing the drugs into the nanotubes, washing the outer solution and getting nanotubes filled with the drug. [Courtesy: Yuri Lvov, Wencai Wang, Liqun Zhang, Rawil Fakhrullin]

A particularly useful natural nanomaterial

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Details of the element phosphorus from the periodic table. Illustration: shutterstock

Black phosphorus as a basis for electronic components

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Tiny bundles of melanin bound between keratin found in the feathers of this African starling react with light to produce the iridescent colors on its back. [Courtesy of Liliana D'Alba]

Colorful nanomaterials inspired by bird feathers

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A picture depicting the separation of oil from water: when the net is placed horizontally, the water passes through it and flows down, while the oil remains on top of the net; The oil can then be collected in a separate container.

Nanometric coating for cleaning oil spills

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One-pot selective monoconversion of cycloparaphenylene [Courtesy: ITbM, Nagoya University]

An annular "bracelet" for the synthesis of complex nanostructures

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From left to right: Joshua Goldberg, Tatiwart Perkins, Elsa Reichmanis at the press conference dealing with the future of electronics at the AAAS conference in San Jose, February 2015.. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

First report from the AAAS conference: There may be more than one substitute for silicon to help continue Moore's Law

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The upper plate is a plastic plate prepared with the help of XNUMXD printing that carries inside it the letters "UW" printed in a slightly different material. The lower plate shows the plate after being stretched. [Courtesy of AJ Boydston/UW]

XNUMXD printing of mechanical devices

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This image is a comparison of the electron structure in graphene versus the structure in compressed hydrogen synthesized by Carnegie University researchers [courtesy of Ivan Naumov and Russell Hemley].

Can hydrogen be made to have the properties of graphene?

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Transparent futuristic phone. Illustration: shutterstock

A new type of semiconductor

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Illustration of the tested molecule and the gold nanoantenna attached to it. The reaction of the nanoparticles to the light creates an electric field between the particles that increases the fluorescence and makes it possible to observe the single molecule. The image on the right shows the microscope image (TEM) of the molecular structure. [Courtesy of the Academy of Finland]

To see the "breaths" of a chemical molecule

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Memory is made of phase change material. Illustration: Duygu Kuzum, Stanford University.

Extremely fast computers

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The aggregation states of the substance. Illustration: shutterstock

Ideas that will change our world - to dream in material / Garbrand Seder and Kristin Persson

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: The image of the new polymeric material reinforced with carbon nanotubes, viewed through a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Illustration: IBM

Scientists at IBM have developed a new type of strong self-healing polymers - with the help of computational chemistry tools

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Researchers have demonstrated that they are able to produce vertical carbon nanofibers (VACNFs) using ambient air instead of ammonia gas. [Courtesy of Anatoli Melechko]

A simple method for the production of vertical carbon nanofibers

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A "quantum leak" (in the mind of an artist) exposed inside a gallium-arsenide semiconductor in response to ultrafast laser radiation. [Courtesy of Baxley/JILA]

New semiconductor quasiparticles

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Detection of a tumor using an MRI scan. Photo: shutterstock

A new radiation-free method for detecting cancer

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