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Self-healing soft material outsmarts nature

A soft material that heals itself instantaneously is now reality. A team of scientists tune the nanostructure of a new stretchable material in such a way that it now entirely recovers its structure and properties at the blink of an eye after being cut or poked.

Jul 27th, 2020

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Trapping tiny particles: A versatile tool for nanomanipulation

Researchers overcame the natural restrictions by developing optical tweezers based on metamaterials - a synthetic material with specific properties that do not occur naturally. This was the first time that this kind of metamaterial had been used for single nanoparticle trapping.

Jul 27th, 2020

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Getting a grip on near-field light

Scientists have developed a system to mold near-field light - opening the door to unprecedented control over this powerful, largely unexplored type of light.

Jul 23rd, 2020

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