Chemically reduced graphene oxide is a good substrate for high enzyme loads, with activities comparable with those found in solution.
Two Layers are Better than One for Nitric Oxide Detection
Nitric oxide detectors made of two to four layers of MoS2 incorporated into a field-effect transistor outperform a single-layered device.
Small, Quick, and Multitasking: Optimized Nanostructure Synthesis and Morphology
Making exactly the noble metal nanostructure you want is now much simpler, thanks to a microfluidic array developed by US and Chinese researchers.
Responsive Labels for Cells
How do you stick a label on something as small as a cell? Cell-labeling techniques are explained, and the use of polymer-coated nanoparticles as environment-sensitive cell labels is demonstrated by scientists in Germany and Australia.
What’s in a Name? In Search of Nano
When we say nanoscience, what do we really mean? And where’s all the research on nanoscale properties and materials coming from?
Counting Graphene Sheets Spread over a Large Area
A simple way to identify the number of graphene sheets on a substrate, even over a large area, is shown by US researchers.
Quantitative Blueprint for Better Nanomachines
The possibility to obtain work from nanomachines is a step closer to reality as scientists provide a quantitative framework describing interfacial interactions in a nanobiomolecular system.
Nanocontrol using Peptides
Small changes can have a big effect; a very small change in molecular structure can have a profound controlling effect on the size of gold nanoparticle superstructures.
Multimetallic Nanomachines: Magnetic and Chemical Power Combine
Scientists at University of California, San Diego, USA, led by Joseph Wang, have put together a multisegment nanomotor that contains components responsive to magnetic and to chemical stimuli.
Forces Combine to Make DNA Arrays
Ring-shaped arrays of DNA by using a simple self-assembly process driven by a balance of different forces, by scientists in the USA and S. Korea.