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Innovative paper-like, battery-free, AI-enabled sensor for holistic wound monitoring

Low-cost and versatile patch can be customised for different types and sizes of wounds, and provides early warning of adverse conditions to facilitate wound care and management.

June 26, 2023 Read more

Thin metasurfaces instead of thick lenses

Researchers have succeeded in producing a metasurface with a diameter of almost 30 centimeters using electron beam lithography - a world record.

June 26, 2023 Read more

Using electric fields to control the movement of defects in crystals

This work has important implications for improving the properties and manufacturing processes of typically brittle ionic and covalent crystals, including semiconductors.

June 26, 2023 Read more

New type of computer memory could greatly reduce energy use and improve performance

Researchers have developed a new design for computer memory that could both greatly improve performance and reduce the energy demands of internet and communications technologies, which are predicted to consume nearly a third of global electricity within the next ten years.

June 24, 2023 Read more

Metasurface enables strong coupling effects between light and transition metal dichalcogenides

This novel platform is based on photonic bound states in the continuum, so-called BICs, in nanostructured tungsten disulfide.

June 23, 2023 Read more

Experiments reveal that water can 'talk' to electrons in graphene

Water and carbon make a quantum couple: the flow of water on a carbon surface is governed by an unusual phenomenon dubbed quantum friction. A new study experimentally demonstrates this phenomenon - which was predicted in a previous theoretical study- at the interface between liquid water and graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms.

June 23, 2023 Read more

Ultrasound-activated microneedles with antibacterial nanoparticles for skin infections

The design engineered with ultrasound-responsive zinc-based metal-organic framework (MOF) antibacterial nanoparticles promises pain-free delivery to treat bacterial infection on skin tissue and facilitate skin repair at the same time.

June 23, 2023 Read more

Groundbreaking nanofluidic device measures individual proteins

This tool, vital for precision medicine, is designed to handle tiny volumes equivalent to a single cell's contents and can identify single biomolecules even in high-concentration environments.

June 23, 2023 Read more

Breakthrough innovation could solve temperature issues for source-gated transistors and lead to low-cost, flexible displays

Low-cost, flexible displays that use very little energy could be a step closer, thanks to an innovation that solves a problem that has plagued source-gated transistors (SGT).

June 22, 2023 Read more

Spectroscopic micro-ellipsometer unveils atomic-level thickness measurements of 2D materials

Researchers have successfully addressed a long-standing challenge in the scientific community, achieving atomic-level precision in the measurement and mapping of the thicknesses of two-dimensional (2D) material flakes.

June 22, 2023 Read more

Researchers make major strides toward an all-purpose biosensor chip

Detection across widely varying concentrations down to single-molecule could enable multiple medical tests to be performed on a single portable device.

June 22, 2023 Read more

Physicists discover a new switch for superconductivity

The results could help turn up unconventional superconducting materials.

June 22, 2023 Read more

Researchers develop a new source of quantum light

The device emits a stream of single photos at room temperature and could provide a basis for optical quantum computers.

June 22, 2023 Read more

Large-scale (4-inch) plasma etching technology for mass production of next-generation two-dimensional semiconductors

Researchers developed a large-scale (4-inch), highly uniform, and defect-free plasma etching technology, which will likely become the foundation of the industrial supply of molybdenum disulfide, a next-generation two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor.

June 22, 2023 Read more

Making the most of minuscule metal mandalas

A new speciation atlas helps researchers to get more accurate results and new discoveries.

June 22, 2023 Read more

Combining twistronics with spintronics could be the next giant leap in quantum electronics

Qantum researchers twist double bilayers of an antiferromagnet to demonstrate tunable moire magnetism.

June 22, 2023 Read more