Small is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley, covering nanoscience, nanotechnology, and micro-scale materials research.
Researchers in Wuhan report that spinach-derived nanoparticles, switched on with red light, improved pumping in rats with surgically induced heart failure. It is early animal work, and getting both the particles and the light to a human heart is unresolved.
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IIT Gandhinagar researchers report that enzyme reactions in the fluid around cells raised the cells' uptake of transferrin by roughly 17%. If the team's stirring explanation holds, the medium around a cell helps set how much cargo the cell takes in.
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Chang Ji-hyun's team at UNIST tuned the organic ligands around tin oxide clusters and got two resists, one for throughput-priority steps and one for precision, both measured under an electron beam. The paper is a back cover in Small.
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Copper oxide nanocubes met chloroauric acid twice in a Krakow lab, once under electrons and once under soft X-rays. The X-ray run ended in hollow gold boxes and the electron run in coated cubes that stayed intact.
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Illinois chemists ran the reaction at room temperature in 20 minutes with no added catalyst. The harder question is what the new molecule is worth against the mill boiler that currently burns the feedstock.
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UNIST reports contact resistance down tenfold on atom-thin MoS2 by keeping hardened photoresist off the surface entirely. The device number is published; the yield number is not.
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