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A new use for nanowires: E-skin (electronic skin)
What’s in a word? Call it a membrane and most people associate it with something scientific. Call it skin and there are definite human associations. So when the engineers at the University of California Berkeley (USA) developed a pressure sensitive electronic material made of nanowires, is it a membrane or skin? They’d like to call [...]
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Biosensors: A sensor/probe inside a single cell
Can scientists put sensors inside single cells? The answer used to be, yes, but not without damaging the cell (a little or a lot). Cells, human or otherwise, are very small. Human cells vary from nerve cells at about 10 microns (that’s millionths of a meter) to 50 microns for heart cells (still very small). [...]
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Nanosensors testing blood for cancer markers
Testing lab samples of blood is one thing; there’s lots of control achieved by isolating components of the blood before testing. Testing whole blood, unfiltered and with all components in their usual mix, is another thing. The thing is; testing whole blood is what’s required in the real world. Whole blood is complicated by the [...]
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Plasmonic nanostructures make graphene viable for super-fast communications