Fabricated using cheap and widely-available organic pigments used in printing inks and cosmetics, a simple retinal prosthesis consists of tiny pixels like a digital camera sensor on a nanometric scale. Researchers hope that it can restore sight to blind people.
May 2nd, 2018
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The creation of a fast, tunable and stable nanoparticle-array laser is a stepping stone to affordable and efficient sensing and switching.
May 2nd, 2018
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Experiments using X-rays have helped characterise a new class of single atom catalysts supported on carbon nanotubes that exhibit outstanding electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO.
May 2nd, 2018
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Like turning a snowball back into fluffy snow, a new technique turns high-density materials into a lower-density one by applying the chemical equivalent of 'negative pressure'.
May 1st, 2018
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Engineers have demonstrated prototype devices made of an exotic material that can conduct a current density 50 times greater than conventional copper interconnect technology.
May 1st, 2018
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A membrane with nanoscale pores allows controlled sweat stimulant release, paving the way to measure small samples of sweat in wearable biosensing devices.
May 1st, 2018
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Metal-free metamaterial can be swiftly tuned to create changing electromagnetic effects.
May 1st, 2018
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Researchers have completed an interdisciplinary study revealing the optimal configuration for nanoscale robots that can travel within the human body to perform a variety of tasks. The model improves previous nature-inspired models.
May 1st, 2018
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Engineered nanomaterials hold great promise for medicine, electronics, water treatment, and other fields. But when the materials are designed without critical information about environmental impacts at the start of the process, their long-term effects could undermine those advances. Researchers hope to change that.
May 1st, 2018
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Study finds that light polarization properties of candidate material offer additional computing degrees of freedom.
May 1st, 2018
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Discovery has the potential of increasing the capacity of wireless communications.
May 1st, 2018
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A team of physicists has uncovered properties of a category of magnetic waves relevant to the development of neuromorphic computing - an artificial intelligence system that seeks to mimic human-brain function.
May 1st, 2018
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Magnetic nanoparticles will be used for their first breast cancer clinical trial later this year.
Apr 30th, 2018
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Surfaces that repel water can support efficient boiling if all air and vapor is removed from a system first.
Apr 30th, 2018
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Researchers are developing self-assembling electronic nanomaterials that can respond to biochemical signals for potential therapeutic use.
Apr 30th, 2018
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Engineers discover geometric underpinnings of T-cell stimulation through precise engineering of T-cell receptor geometry, building a 3D nanofabricated biomimetic surface that simulates the key components of an antigen-presenting cell.
Apr 30th, 2018
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