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First controllable nanoscale gas-liquid interface fabricated

Nanoscale gas-liquid interfaces have been randomly generated in carbon nanotubes and porous membranes, for example, but fabricating controllable, nanoscale versions is still challenging because nanofluidic channels are too small to make use of conventional approaches to surface control.

Oct 19th, 2021

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Active droploids - self-propelling droplets

Physicists examined a special system of colloidal particles that they activated using laser light. The researchers discovered that self-propelling droplets, which they have named 'droploids', formed which contain the particles as an internal motor.

Oct 19th, 2021

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Targeting cancer at the nanoscale

Researchers create gold nanoparticles studded with a radioactive isotope that remain localized inside cancer cells, which can enable targeted radiotherapy for tumors with reduced damage to healthy organs.

Oct 19th, 2021

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Tuning transparency and opacity

Making a dark human hair transparent, or even an opaque bar of silicon: this optical 'sorcery' is possible by manipulating the incident light. This new phenomenon is called 'mutual extinction and transparency'. Until now only existing in theory, photonics researchers demonstrated the effect with experiments.

Oct 15th, 2021

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Nanoscale lattices flow from 3D printer

Engineers are creating nanostructures of silica with a sophisticated 3D printer, demonstrating a method to make micro-scale electronic, mechanical and photonic devices from the bottom up.

Oct 15th, 2021

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