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Rewritable UV-sensitive surfaces made from doped titania nanocrystals

Researchers have succeeded in producing a coating material that can be written on using UV light and the writing erased again using oxygen. Changes to rewritable paper could help reduce paper waste in a wide variety of applications.

Jun 4th, 2022

Engineers create chip that can process and classify nearly two billion images per second

To create their chip, researchers removed the four main time-consuming culprits in the traditional computer chip: the conversion of optical to electrical signals, the need for converting the input data to binary format, a large memory module, and clock-based computations.

Jun 4th, 2022

Nanostructured fibers can impersonate human muscles

Researchers have created a new type of fiber that can perform like a muscle actuator, in many ways better than other options that exist today. And, most importantly, these muscle-like fibers are simple to make and recycle.

Jun 3rd, 2022

Promising new materials mimic muscle structure and function

Inspired by the structure of muscles, an innovative new strategy for creating fiber actuators could lead to advances in robotics, prosthetics, and smart clothing.

Jun 3rd, 2022

An atomic-scale window into superconductivity paves the way for new quantum materials

Researchers have demonstrated a new technique to measure the quantum excitations in superconducting materials with atomic precision for the first time. Detecting these excitations is an important step towards understand exotic superconductors, which could help us improve quantum computers and perhaps even pave the way towards room-temperature superconductors.

Jun 3rd, 2022

Shining light on a fluid completely changes its dielectric permittivity

Simply illuminating a fluid can cause its interaction with an electric field to greatly vary.

Jun 3rd, 2022

Topological phase detected in spin chains

In a special arrangement of atomic spins, physicists have measured the properties of the so-called Haldane phase in an experiment. To do so, they used a quantum mechanical trick.

Jun 3rd, 2022

Microscopy - beyond Moore's Law

Researchers are using advanced microscopy to nanoengineer promising materials for computing and electronics in a beyond-Moore era.

Jun 2nd, 2022

Engineers develop nanoparticles that cross the blood-brain barrier

Tested using a new brain tissue model, the particles may be able to deliver chemotherapy drugs for glioblastoma.

Jun 2nd, 2022

Emerging vaccine nanotechnology

The authors of this paper discuss emerging vaccine nanotechnology from defense against infection to sniping cancer.

Jun 2nd, 2022

Progressive medicinal and herbal nanoscience for targeted drug delivery systems

This 2-part reference informs readers about the application of drug delivery technologies to herbal medicines. Chapters cover a broad range of major topics on the subject of targeted drug delivery systems.

Jun 2nd, 2022

Artificial intelligence centered cancer nanomedicine: Diagnostics, therapeutics and bioethics

The book 'Artificial Intelligence Based Cancer Nanomedicine: Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Bioethics' gives a comprehensive explanation of the role of machine learning and artificial intelligence in cancer nanomedicine. It presents 10 chapters that cover multiple dimensions of the subject.