Improving food safety with Lab-in-a-Package technology
Real-time, in-package pathogen detection technology could significantly reduce foodborne illnesses and waste, while improving efficiencies in the food supply chain.
Aug 24th, 2023Subscribe to our Nanotechnology Spotlight feed
Real-time, in-package pathogen detection technology could significantly reduce foodborne illnesses and waste, while improving efficiencies in the food supply chain.
Aug 24th, 2023Scientists are using near-infrared light to wirelessly power medical implants, aiming to reduce surgeries and enhance patient comfort.
Aug 18th, 2023Researchers develop novel technique combining top-down electron beam control with bottom-up atomic self-assembly, enabling major advancements in automated, reproducible atomic-scale manufacturing.
Aug 11th, 2023Discover the nanoscale science behind nature's vivid structural colors. This article unravels how nanostructures like photonic crystals manipulate light without pigments to generate colors in organisms. Learn how researchers apply these bioinspired designs to develop advanced optical technologies.
Aug 8th, 2023Researchers develop fully recyclable, self-healing soft robots made of a novel dynamic polymer, enabling rapid wireless reprogramming and reshaping into new functions. The material overcomes previous challenges in recyclability for sustainable soft robotics.
Aug 4th, 2023Researchers develop flexible health sensor with game-changing sensitivity. Integrating photoconductor and organic transistors enables exponential signal boost, allowing accurate continuous monitoring of heart rate, blood oxygen, blood pressure during normal daily activities.
Aug 3rd, 2023Researchers develop revolutionary buckling metamaterials that leverage elastic instabilities to achieve extreme vibration damping, enabling lightweight yet stiff structures. The materials set hard limits on vibration transmission regardless of input acceleration.
Aug 2nd, 2023Researchers have developed 'drycells', microdroplets that encapsulate single cells in a powdery shell. This breakthrough enables easy cell picking and has potential to advance tissue engineering and precision medicine.
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