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Laser4Fun project develops laser-based surface patterning

Using the latest laser techniques, many surfaces of existing products can be accurately treated. The technique can replace the special coatings that are currently applied to existing materials for surface improvement.

September 29, 2015 Read more

Researchers disguise drugs as platelets to target cancer

Researchers have for the first time developed a technique that coats anticancer drugs in membranes made from a patient's own platelets, allowing the drugs to last longer in the body and attack both primary cancer tumors and the circulating tumor cells that can cause a cancer to metastasize. The work was tested successfully in an animal model.

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Variance spectroscopy technique advances nanoparticle analysis

In a great example of 'less is more', scientists have developed a powerful method to analyze carbon nanotubes in solution.

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Researchers create first entropy-stabilized complex oxide alloys

Researchers have created the first entropy-stabilized alloy that incorporates oxides - and demonstrated conclusively that the crystalline structure of the material can be determined by disorder at the atomic scale rather than chemical bonding.

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A new sunblock that doesn't penetrate the skin

Scientists have developed a new sunblock, made with bioadhesive nanoparticles, that stays on the surface of the skin.

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Hopes of improved brain implants with nanowire structures

Neurons thrive and grow in a new type of nanowire material. In time, the results might improve both neural and retinal implants, and reduce the risk of them losing their effectiveness over time, which is currently a problem.

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New processes in modern ReRAM memory cells decoded

Researchers discovered an unexpected second switching process in valence change memory (VCM): metal ions also help to form filaments in VCMs.

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Electric field control of magnetic moment in palladium

This research demonstrates the possibility of electrically inducing magnetism in non-magnetic materials.

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A new single-molecule tool to observe enzymes at work

Scientists have created an innovative tool to directly detect the delicate, single-molecule interactions between DNA and enzymatic proteins. Their approach provides a new platform to view and record these nanoscale interactions in real time.

September 28, 2015 Read more

Carbon nanotube rectenna converts light to DC current (w/video)

Using nanometer-scale components, researchers have demonstrated the first optical rectenna, a device that combines the functions of an antenna and a rectifier diode to convert light directly into DC current.

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New method for building on an atomic scale

Scientists have pioneered a new way of manipulating several thousand atoms at a time, paving the way for building nanoscale electronic devices more quickly and easily at room temperature.

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Biomimetic dental prosthesis

Material researchers are developing a procedure that allows them to mimic the complex fine structure of biological composite materials, such as teeth or seashells. They can thus create synthetic materials that are as hard and tough as their natural counterparts.

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Metamaterial absorbers for infrared inspection technologies

A metamaterial absorber capable of highly sensitive infrared detection enhances the spectroscopy of tiny molecular details.

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Supercapacitors from scrap tires

Some of the 300 million tires discarded each year in the United States alone could be used in supercapacitors for vehicles and the electric grid using a new technology.

September 25, 2015 Read more

Rsearchers produce first 2D perovskite hybrid sheets

To the growing list of two-dimensional semiconductors, such as graphene, boron nitride, and molybdenum disulfide, whose unique electronic properties make them potential successors to silicon in future devices, you can now add hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites. However, unlike the other contenders, which are covalent semiconductors, these 2D hybrid perovskites are ionic materials, which gives them special properties of their own.

September 25, 2015 Read more

Chip-based technology enables reliable direct detection of Ebola virus

Hybrid device integrates a microfluidic chip for sample preparation and an optofluidic chip for optical detection of individual molecules of viral RNA.

September 25, 2015 Read more