Oct 11, 2025 Chemists use gold nanorods to transfer light energy to molecules without contact, enabling efficient, low-waste, light-driven reactions. (Nanowerk News) Scientists are exploring many ways to use light rather than heat to drive chemical reactions more efficiently, which could significantly reduce waste, energy consumption, and reliance on non-renewable...
Twistronics and CRISPR enable attomolar biosensing of cancer biomarkers
Oct 11, 2025 Twisted graphene precisely aligned with gold nanodisks and coupled with CRISPR achieves attomolar detection of cancer biomarkers, revealing a new path for low light molecular diagnostics. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The search for faster and more sensitive disease diagnostics has drawn together two highly specialized areas of research: advanced...