Tiny, thin microtubes could provide a scaffold for neuron cultures to grow so that researchers can study neural networks, their growth and repair, yielding insights into treatment for degenerative neurological conditions or restoring nerve connections after injury.
Nov 11th, 2014
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Plasma functionalisation technology produces significant improvements in mechanical performance and damage tolerance in carbon fibre composites.
Nov 11th, 2014
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Last week, US tech giants Google made a splash in the media, announcing plans to develop new 'disease-detecting magnetic nanoparticles'.
Nov 11th, 2014
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Physiker untersuchen Wechselwirkung von Elektronen.
Nov 11th, 2014
Read moreResearchers have developed a potential new weapon in the fight against cancer: a daisy-shaped drug carrier that's many thousands of times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.
Nov 11th, 2014
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Researchers have developed a novel light-responsive nanomachine as a new type of gene vector. The nanomachine allowed the team to accomplish systemic light-selective gene transfection into a tumor for the first time.
Nov 11th, 2014
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NanoTechValley is a collaborative platform dedicated to providers and users of nanotechnology, designed for two purposes: to stimulate the emergence of R+D projects and to offer access to cutting edge equipment proposed by the community.
Nov 10th, 2014
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Researchers have chemically engineered a new, electrically conductive nanomaterial that is flexible enough to fold, but strong enough to support many times its own weight. They believe it can be used to improve electrical energy storage, water filtration and radiofrequency shielding in technology from portable electronics to coaxial cables.
Nov 10th, 2014
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Scientists have demonstrated how noise in a microwave amplifier is limited by self-heating at very low temperatures. The findings can be of importance for future discoveries in many areas of science such as quantum computers and radio astronomy.
Nov 10th, 2014
Read moreIn a step toward robots smaller than a grain of sand, researchers have shown how chains of self-assembling particles could serve as electrically activated muscles in the tiny machines.
Nov 10th, 2014
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The dream of analyzing the structure of large, hard-to-crystallize proteins and other bio molecules has come one step closer to reality. In new study, researchers used a newly developed grease to suspend small crystals of lysozyme, glucose isomerase, thaumatin, and fatty acid-binding protein type-3, which they then analyzed using the revolutionary serial femtosecond crystallography method.
Nov 10th, 2014
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A team of engineers and scientists has identified a source of electronic noise that could affect the functioning of instruments operating at very low temperatures, such as devices used in radio telescopes and advanced physics experiments. The findings could have implications for the future design of transistors and other electronic components.
Nov 10th, 2014
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Scientists have made an important advancement in understanding a classic transition-metal oxide, vanadium dioxide, by quantifying the thermodynamic forces driving the transformation.
Nov 10th, 2014
Read moreResearchers have demonstrated that it is possible to directly generate an electric current in a magnetic material by rotating its magnetization. The findings reveal a novel link between magnetism and electricity, and may have applications in electronics.
Nov 10th, 2014
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Researchers have invented a single tiny structure that includes all the components of a battery that they say could bring about the ultimate miniaturization of energy storage components.
Nov 10th, 2014
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Scientists have made the first direct observations of a one-dimensional boundary separating two different, atom-thin materials, enabling studies of long-theorized phenomena at these interfaces.
Nov 10th, 2014
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