Innovative light-delivery technique improves biosensors
New approach improves practicality of high-sensitivity sensors for cancer, other diseases.
Posted: May 17th, 2018
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Recent developments to control the location, composition, shape, and structure of encapsulated metal nanostructures
A research team reports the ability to stabilize different metallic nanostructures by encapsulating them in porous monocrystalline materials.
Posted: May 17th, 2018
Read moreGlassomer: Processing glass like a polymer
Pure quartz glass is highly transparent and resistant to thermal, physical, and chemical impacts. These are optimum prerequisites for use in optics, data technology or medical engineering. Materials engineers have developed a forming technology to structure quartz glass like a polymer.
Posted: May 17th, 2018
Read moreDiscovery will impact design of drug delivery systems at the molecular level
Scientists have made a discovery that will impact the design of not only drug delivery systems, but also the development of newer applications in water filtration and energy production.
Posted: May 17th, 2018
Read moreMetallic drivers of Alzheimer's disease
The detection of iron and calcium compounds in amyloid plaque cores.
Posted: May 17th, 2018
Read moreFlexible, highly efficient multimodal energy harvesting
A piezoelectric ceramic foam supported by a flexible polymer support provides a 10-fold increase in the ability to harvest mechanical and thermal energy over standard piezo composites.
Posted: May 17th, 2018
Read moreOscillating nanophase magnetite controls ice nucleation
Researchers report that magnetite nanoparticles, which are mechanically rotated by external oscillating magnetic fields, could disturb the water/crystal interface and promote supercooling during the freezing process.
Posted: May 17th, 2018
Read moreFunctional films made of environmentally friendly clay minerals and dyes
Transparent hybrid film that changes color with humidity via a novel mechanism.
Posted: May 17th, 2018
Read moreNew device could increase battery life of electronics by a hundred-fold
A group of physicists has developed a magnetic material that employs a unique structure - a honeycomb lattice that exhibits distinctive electronic properties.
Posted: May 16th, 2018
Read moreResearchers control the properties of graphene transistors using pressure
Researchers have developed a technique to manipulate the electrical conductivity of graphene with compression, bringing the material one step closer to being a viable semiconductor for use in today's electronic devices.
Posted: May 16th, 2018
Read moreAn electronic rescue dog
Scientists have developed small and extremely sensitive gas sensors for acetone, ammonia, and isoprene - all metabolic products that we emit in low concentrations via our breath or skin. They combined these sensors in a device with two commercial sensors for CO2 and moisture.
Posted: May 16th, 2018
Read moreTiny shapeshifters
Chemists embark on a project to ultimately produce devices that operate mechanically on direct exposure to light.
Posted: May 16th, 2018
Read moreWorld's strongest bio-material outperforms steel and spider silk
Novel method transfers superior nanoscale mechanics to macroscopic fibers.
Posted: May 16th, 2018
Read moreProcesses in the atomic microcosmos are revealed
Physicists generate attosecond electron pulses with laser light.
Posted: May 16th, 2018
Read moreMaking carbon nanotubes as usable as common plastics
Cresols disperse carbon nanotubes at unprecedentedly high concentrations.
Posted: May 15th, 2018
Read moreFlowing cells in a wavy microchannel for effective size-based cell sorting
Researchers have developed a precise microscale manipulation method by rapidly flowing cell suspensions through a specially designed microchannel. This novel microfluidic device enables high-throughput sized-based cell sorting of a large amount of biological samples, which has broad applications in practical biomedical research and pharmaceutical fields.
Posted: May 15th, 2018
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