This sensor, which uses aptamers (a type of artificial antibody), is more sensitive that antigen-based sensors and detects the virus more quickly and cheaply than PCR tests. These new devices can be incorporated into portable diagnostic systems and are easy to use.
Dec 20th, 2021
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Measuring the volume, motion and contents of microscopic droplets is important for studying how airborne viruses spread (including those that cause COVID-19), how clouds reflect sunlight to cool the Earth, how ink jet printers create finely detailed patterns, and even how a soda bottle fragments into nanoscale plastic particles that pollute the oceans.
Dec 20th, 2021
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Scientists have used state-of-the-art 3D printing and microscopy to provide a new glimpse of what happens when taking magnets to three-dimensions on the nanoscale.
Dec 20th, 2021
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The rechargeable battery can be woven and washed, and could provide power for fiber-based electronic devices and sensors.
Dec 20th, 2021
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Researchers have incorporated phosphorene nanoribbons into new types of solar cells, dramatically improving their efficiency.
Dec 20th, 2021
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Researchers have created a semiconductor material that acts like a second skin layer and is up to 200% more stretchable than its original dimension without significantly losing its electric current.
Dec 20th, 2021
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Researchers have discovered that the many-body effects, particularly the electronic quantum correlation, can be tuned in metallic vdW monolayers through moire engineering.
Dec 20th, 2021
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Researchers managed to use light to very precisely control the formation of nanocomposites in the shape of corals and vases. By illuminating a solution of the right ingredients with UV light, they can control where, when and which structures arise at the micrometer scale.
Dec 17th, 2021
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Atomic-scale magnetic patterns resembling a hedgehog's spikes could result in hard disks with massively larger capacities than today's devices, a new study suggests. The finding could help data centers keep up with the exponentially increasing demand for video and cloud data storage.
Dec 17th, 2021
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Chemists succeeded in synthesizing particularly complex mesocrystals with largely unknown chemical and physical properties and in shedding light on their structure.
Dec 17th, 2021
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Scientists have shown that they can manipulate single skyrmions - tiny magnetic vortices that could be used as computing bits in future ultra-dense information storage devices - using pulses of electric current, at room temperature.
Dec 17th, 2021
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Researchers have developed a novel nanoporous gating system that can precisely control and observe dynamic gating processes.
Dec 17th, 2021
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An AI framework enables scientists to improve a decades-old imaging technique.
Dec 17th, 2021
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An international research team has developed a material that, when coated on a glass window panel, can effectively self-adapt to heat or cool rooms across different climate zones in the world, helping to cut energy usage.
Dec 16th, 2021
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Researchers describe how nanodiamond-reinforced composite membranes can purify hydrogen from its humid mixtures, making the hydrogen generation processes vastly more efficient and cost-effective.
Dec 16th, 2021
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Researchers study the interaction between lithium atoms and barium ion isolated in ultrahigh vacuum and trapped using light traps.
Dec 16th, 2021
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