Tiny drug-delivering capsules could sustain transplanted insulin-producing cells

A drug-carrying microsphere within a cell-bearing microcapsule could be the key to transplanting insulin-secreting pig pancreas cells into human patients whose own cells have been destroyed by type I diabetes.

Using injectable self-assembled nanomaterials for sustained delivery of drugs

New injectable delivery system can slowly release drug carriers for months.

Cancer-fighting nanorobots programmed to seek and destroy tumors

Study shows first applications of DNA origami for nanomedicine.

Scalable two-dimensional materials advance future-gen electronics

Researchers have developed a multistep process to make single crystal atomically-thin films of tungsten diselenide across large-area sapphire substrates.

Preventing the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material

Scientists believe they have addressed a long-standing problem troubling scientists and engineers for more than 35 years: How to prevent the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material during imaging or lithography.

New process allows 3-D printing of nanoscale metal structures

Synthesizing organic scaffolds that contain metal ions enables 3-D printing of metallic structures that are orders of magnitude smaller than previously possible.

Researchers invented light-emitting nanoantennas based on halide perovskites

Researchers have managed to combine a nanoantenna and a light source in a single nanoparticle. It can generate, enhance and route emission via excited resonant modes coupled with excitons.