Japanese art technique can be used to create 3D microstructures and nanotools
Engineers are using ideas taken from paper-folding practices to create a sophisticated alternative to 3D printing.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read moreEngineers are using ideas taken from paper-folding practices to create a sophisticated alternative to 3D printing.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read moreResearchers can now fill in missing information about nanoscale polymerization and 'smart' materials for medicine and the environment.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read moreChemists have synthesized extremely unusual compounds. Their central building block is a silicon atom. Different from usual, however, is the arrangement of the four bonding partners of the atom, which are not in the form of a tetrahedron around it, but flat like a trapezoid.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read moreA new study describes a breakthrough method for imaging the physical and chemical interactions that sequester carbon in soil at near atomic scales, with some surprising results.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read moreScientists show how coated nanoantennas retain energy to potentially catalyze chemical reactions.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read moreResearchers have developed one of the fastest known COVID-19 antibody tests. The test results are available in 10 to 15 seconds and detect the presence of two of the antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read moreThe newly developed BioAFMviewer software opens the opportunity to use the enormous amount of available high-resolution protein data to better understand experiments. Within an interactive interface with rich functionality, the BioAFMviewer computationally emulates tip-scanning of any biomolecular structure to generate simulated AFM graphics and movies.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read moreThe new 'magnetocuring' adhesive is made by combining a typical commercially available epoxy adhesive with specially tailored magnetic nanoparticles.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read moreResearchers discovered shape-preserving ion-exchange reactions that open up new routes towards self-assembled materials with various novel, functional properties.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read morePhysicists have shown that topological phases could exist in biology, and in so doing they have identified a link between solid-state physics and biophysics.
Dec 21st, 2020
Read moreBy examining tiny particles of gold with powerful X-ray beams, scientists hope they can learn how to cut down on harmful carbon monoxide emissions from motor vehicles.
Dec 21st, 2020
Read moreTechnique is 10,000 faster than previous methods, and can create active nanostructured gates directly below two-dimensional materials such as graphene.
Dec 21st, 2020
Read moreResearchers have designed and synthesized an effective material for speeding up one of the limiting steps in extracting hydrogen from alcohols. The material, a catalyst, is made from tiny clusters of nickel metal anchored on a 2D substrate.
Dec 21st, 2020
Read moreScientists have published the results of an experiment that could provide a blueprint for the analysis of transitions states in atoms and molecules. This would open up new opportunities to gain insights into important processes such as photocatalysis, elementary steps in photosynthesis and radiation damage.
Dec 21st, 2020
Read moreA team of researchers has succeeded for the first time in producing a tunable multilayer system in which two different types of skyrmions - the future bits for '0' and '1' - can exist at room temperature.
Dec 21st, 2020
Read moreMaximising the efficiency of renewable energy technology is dependent on creating nanoparticles with ideal dimensions and density, new simulations have shown. Scientists have developed a process for calculating the perfect size and density of quantum dots needed to achieve record efficiency in solar panels.
Dec 21st, 2020
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