When you're skiing down a mountain or driving a car, it helps to be able to see where you're going – but your goggles, glasses and windshield can fog up if there's a difference in temperature or ...

Scientists have been continuously studying various aspects of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), in an ...

In a recent study published in Polymers, researchers synthesized and evaluated a silver and polyurethane nanocomposite surface coating material that exhibits antiviral activity against severe acute ...

Recently, AZoNano spoke with researchers from ETH Zurich about their work that has created a gold nanoparticle coating for antifogging applications on transparent surfaces. Iwan Haechler: My name is ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Nanoparticles exhibit intriguing size-dependent optoelectronic properties with applications across biomedicine, energy, sensing and more. However, the exquisite precision ...

A coating made from metallic nanoparticles could help prevent cavities from forming by stopping plaque from developing on the teeth, suggests research from the University of Illinois. A new ...

Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU; Beersheba, Israel) and the National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev (Beersheba, Israel) are in the process of developing ...

The self-assembly of ligand-stabilized nanoparticles has been a subject of scientific interest for several decades. These nanoparticles possess extraordinary mechanical, electrical, and optical ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Nanoparticles can deliver different types of drugs to specific cell types, for example, chemotherapy to cancer cells. But for all the benefits they offer and to get to where they ...

Apple wants to make displays less scratchable. Photo: Leander Kahney/Cult of Mac Apple is working to make iPhones and iPad screens a bit less scratchable. That’s according to a recently filed patent ...