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• Optimal particle size for anticancer nanomedicines discovered
• Researchers develop world's thinnest electric generator
• Precision printing: Unique capabilities of 3-D printing revealed
• Power of thorium for improved nuclear design explored by scientists

Optimal particle size for anticancer nanomedicines discovered Posted: 15 Oct 2014 01:56 PM PDT Nanomedicines consisting of nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery to specific tissues and cells offer new solutions for cancer diagnosis and therapy. In a recent study, researchers systematically evaluated the size-dependent biological profiles of three monodisperse drug-silica nanoconjugates to determine the optimum particle size for tissue penetration and tumor inhibition.

Researchers develop world's thinnest electric generator Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:28 AM PDT Researchers have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin material, molybdenum disulfide, resulting in a unique electric generator and mechanosensation devices that are optically transparent, extremely light, and very bendable and stretchable.

Precision printing: Unique capabilities of 3-D printing revealed Posted: 15 Oct 2014 10:06 AM PDT Researchers have demonstrated an additive manufacturing method to control the structure and properties of metal components with precision unmatched by conventional manufacturing processes.

Power of thorium for improved nuclear design explored by scientists Posted: 14 Oct 2014 05:50 AM PDT The development of a radical new type of nuclear power station that is safer, more cost-effective, compact, quicker and less disruptive to build than any previously constructed is underway.

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