A team of researchers are developing a toolbox of self-assembling nanoparticles to be used as vaccines against infections including the parasitic Toxoplasma gondii.
Oct 13th, 2020
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Researchers have managed to make an efficient material for broadband frequency doubling of light using microspheres made of disordered nanocrystals. The crucial idea for the method arose during a coffee break. In the future, the new approach could be used in lasers and other light technologies.
Oct 13th, 2020
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Scientists demonstrate how light stored in a cloud of ultra-cold atoms can be transported by means of an optical conveyor belt.
Oct 13th, 2020
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Cheaper refrigerators? Stronger hip implants? A better understanding of human disease? All of these could be possible and more, someday, thanks to an ambitious new project to design and build a fleet of tiny ultra-sensitive thermometers.
Oct 13th, 2020
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A team of researchers has demonstrated for the first time a single-molecule electret - a device that could be one of the keys to molecular computers.
Oct 13th, 2020
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In their test runs, the researchers have produced gloves that can digitally capture hand movements, a zipper that transmits different electric currents depending on the degree of opening, and sports tapes that act as user interfaces that are attached to the body.
Oct 13th, 2020
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The trick to extremely thin supercapacitors with improved performance is spraying graphene ink at an angle.
Oct 13th, 2020
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Scientists have discovered a new way to manipulate magnets with laser light pulses shorter than a trillionth of a second.
Oct 12th, 2020
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Virtual reality software which allows researchers to 'walk' inside and analyse individual cells could be used to understand fundamental problems in biology and develop new treatments for disease.
Oct 12th, 2020
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With computing already consuming 8% of global electricity, low-energy data-storage is a key priority. Next-generation 'multi-state' memory offers a highly energy efficient, low-cost, fast-access solution: stepping 'beyond binary' to store more data than just zeros and ones.
Oct 12th, 2020
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Researchers have demonstrated that hybrid surface waves called surface phonon-polaritons provide enhanced thermal conductivity in nanoscale membranes. These surface waves can aid in the thermal management of nanostructured devices as conventional cooling methods reach their material-related limits. Surface phonon-polaritons will be particularly useful for heat conduction in silicon-based microelectronics and photonics applications.
Oct 12th, 2020
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Twisting a monolayer and a bilayer sheet of graphene into a three-layer structure leads to new quantum mechanical states.
Oct 12th, 2020
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When an optical fiber is immersed in liquid, a high temperature, high speed jet is discharged. Researchers expect this to be applied to medical treatment in the future. Now, a research team has explored this phenomenon further and revealed the reasons behind the jet formation.
Oct 12th, 2020
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Pulsing liquid alloys for nanomaterials synthesis.
Oct 12th, 2020
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New method generates precisely controlled graphene microbubbles with perfectly spherical curvature for lenses.
Oct 9th, 2020
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Scientists have applied the lessons of the water strider and the soapy toothpick to develop an understanding of chemical manipulation of surface tension. Their vehicle? Tiny surfing robots.
Oct 9th, 2020
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