Researchers have developed a novel animal-free method to predict the toxic effect of nanoparticles to the human lung. The method aims to enable the safety-by-design development of safer industrial materials.
Nov 24th, 2020
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Pioneering research shows how high-frequency sound waves can help build smart materials, new nanoparticles and deliver drugs to the lungs for painless, needle-free vaccinations.
Nov 24th, 2020
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Researchers demonstrate an alternative sputter deposition-based approach for the replication of atomic-scale features that is suited for a very broad range of amorphous alloys, thereby dramatically extending the available chemistries.
Nov 24th, 2020
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Scientists demonstrate laser light in the mid-infrared range with tailor-made quantum cascade lasers.
Nov 24th, 2020
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Researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to visualize quantum dots in bilayer graphene, an important step toward quantum information technologies.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Faster, smaller, smarter and more energy-efficient chips for everything from consumer electronics to big data to brain-inspired computing could soon be on the way after engineers created the smallest memory device yet.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Researchers have created multifunctional materials through the addition of carbon nanoparticles to polymer matrices, designed to allow self-diagnostic monitoring through an inexpensive technique.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Inspired by nature, researchers demonstrate a synthetic strategy to stabilize bio-inspired solar energy harvesting materials. Their findings could be a significant breakthrough in functionalizing molecular assemblies for future solar energy conversion technologies.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Scientists have employed a spectroscopic nanoimaging technique to study how infrared nanolight and molecular vibrations interact with each other. The images reveal that vibrational strong coupling can be achieved, which is a phenomenon that recently attracts wide attention for its potential use to control fundamental physical and chemical material properties.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Strain engineering can significantly manipulate the two-dimensional (2D) materials' electronic and optical properties, which endow it the potential applications in optoelectronics and nanophotonics.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Researchers have synthesized a series of 2D organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites films with large organic spacer cations, and found that mobility and broadband emission showed strong dependence on the molecular conformational order of organic cations.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Specially engineered contact lenses use tears to monitor patient health.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Researchers have studied the impact of electrode surface morphology on the properties of a resistive switching memory cell. It turned out that thicker electrodes have greater surface roughness and are associated with markedly better memory cell characteristics.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Physicists have succeeded in fully integrating nanodiamonds into nanophotonic circuits and at the same time addressing several of these nanodiamonds optically. The study creates the basis for future applications in the field of quantum sensing schemes or quantum information processors.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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A new technique to make cheaper more efficient biological enzyme hybrids could have valuable applications in future water recycling, targeted drug manufacturing and other industries.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Researchers have realized high-throughput production of thin, ordered through-hole membranes of titanium dioxide.
Nov 21st, 2020
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