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International Day of Women and Girls in Science
February 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The United Nations General Assembly established this day eight years ago to draw attention to the crucial role that girls and women play in science and technology. In the…
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Method to improve the yeast cell display
Researchers from the SNI network have developed a method to improve the so-called yeast surface display. Yeast surface display is a fundamental tool for protein engineering and targeted protein evolution. In this process, yeast cells are…
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Best Poster Award for Annika Huber
Congratulations to Annika Huber, who won the prize for the best poster at this year's SNI PhD School Winter School "Nanoscience in the Snow".
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Nano-heating enables enzymes to work at sub-zero temperatures
Researchers from the SNI network have developed a strategy to enable the activity of a natural biocatalyst at low temperatures, down to -10°C. Professor Patrick Shahgaldian’s group from the FHNW School of Life Sciences immobilized enzymes…
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Electrospray method expands range of different graphene ribbons
Researchers from the SNI network have accessed various graphene nanoribbons using high-vacuum electrospray deposition. They succeeded in investigating longer graphene nanoribbons with properties that are difficult or impossible to achieve…/ News, Research
Floating thanks to sound waves
Researchers from the SNI network are investigating methods to keep particles in the air using sound waves (acoustic levitation) – for example for crystallographic studies of proteins. In a recent paper in Applied Physics Letters, they…/ News
Happy Holidays
We wish you Happy Holidays and a good start to a healthy, peaceful and fulfilling New Year. Thanks a lot to all members, partners and funders who contribute to unique network and make it possible that we can train excellent young…
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New approach in biosensor technology
Researchers from the SNI network have developed a novel coating of a polymer and carbon nanotubes that is suitable for coating miniaturized electrodes. Such electrodes, in which conductive nanomaterials are embedded in an anti-fouling…
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Unexpected speed-dependent friction
In the macro world, friction doesn’t depend on the speed at which two surfaces move past one another, but researchers from Basel and Tel Aviv have now observed precisely this effect in special graphene structures on a platinum surface. Due…