[Nano-Medecine] – Supersensitive nanomaterials for DNA diagnostics and targeted drug delivery
21 February 2020
In 1900, German physician Paul Ehrlich came up with the notion of a “magic bullet.” The basic idea is to inject a patient with smart particles capable of finding, recognizing, and treating a disease. Medicine has pursued the magic bullet ever since.
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[Nanotechnology] – Something from nothing: Using waste heat to power electronics
22 February 2020
Collecting energy from environmental waste heat such as that lost from the human body is an attractive prospect to power small electronics sustainably. A thermocell is a type of energy-harvesting device that converts environmental heat into electricity through the thermal charging effect.
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