Scientists have developed a new low-cost, environmentally friendly photon upconversion platform that achieves high thermal stability using deep eutectic solvents. Deep eutectic solvents are an emerging class of solvents that are a cost-effective and sustainable alternative to ionic liquids.
Dec 4th, 2017
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Scientists reported new insight into the electronic conduction and interference on 2D-topological insulators - an exotic kind of insulators that conduct only at the edge and that could be key for the development of a new generation of electronic devices.
Dec 2nd, 2017
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This coating makes it harder for marine organisms to grow on the hulls and makes cleaning the ships easier.
Dec 1st, 2017
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Scientists have discovered interesting new magnetic properties of a type of materials known as 'quantum spin ice'.
Dec 1st, 2017
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How can damaged cardiac tissue following a heart attack best be treated with replacement muscle cells? A research team is now presenting an innovative method on mice: Muscle replacement cells, which are to take over the function of the damaged tissue, are loaded with magnetic nanoparticles.
Dec 1st, 2017
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New method shows how smallest damage at the surface of semiconductor crystals develops into large defects.
Dec 1st, 2017
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Scientists have designed a three-dimensional material that converts linear compression forces into a rotation movement.
Dec 1st, 2017
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Nature is quantum mechanical, and researchers are ready to study it with a nine-qubit array and the problem of many-body localization.
Dec 1st, 2017
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Discovery could lead to revolutionary handheld disease diagnostic system.
Dec 1st, 2017
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These stripes of electron spin and charge are exciting because of their possible link to a phenomenon that could transform society by making electrical transmission nearly 100 percent efficient.
Dec 1st, 2017
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Electric fields produced by structural mismatches between two materials could be harnessed to manage data in spintronic devices.
Dec 1st, 2017
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Scientists use fluorescent carbon nanotube probes to achieve first in vivo success.
Nov 30th, 2017
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Simple model used to compute elasticity of newly synthesized glassy diamond.
Nov 30th, 2017
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At the first hint of DNA damage, a protein known as an ATR kinase activates the cell's built-in repair system. Scientists have now imaged this protein at unprecedented resolution, and are beginning to understand its response to DNA damage.
Nov 30th, 2017
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By forcing light to go through a smaller gap than ever before, researchers have paved the way for computers based on light instead of electronics.
Nov 30th, 2017
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Researcher uses supercomputers to explore optical properties of plasmonic nanovesicles for drug delivery and investigations of molecules in the brain.
Nov 30th, 2017
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