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Engineering single-molecule DNA computing with magnetic tweezers

Scientists have engineered single-molecule DNA computing controlled by stretching forces using magnetic tweezers. By tracking the real-time signals of the DNA extension, the output can be determined at a single base-pair resolution.

April 5, 2022 Read more

Pollen paper that you can print on and 'unprint'

Researchers showed how high-resolution colour images could be printed on the non-allergenic pollen paper with a laser printer, and then 'unprinted' - by completely removing the toner without damaging the paper - with an alkaline solution.

April 5, 2022 Read more

Honey holds potential for making brain-like computer chips

Researchers show that honey can be used to make a memristor, a component similar to a transistor that can not only process but also store data in memory.

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Revolutionary tool could meet future pandemics with accelerated response

A new tool speeds up development of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products by more than one million times while minimizing costs.

April 4, 2022 Read more

Solar hydrogen: Better photoelectrodes through flash heating

A high intensity and rapid light pulse directly heats the semiconducting metal-oxide thin film, allowing to achieve the optimal heating conditions without damaging the substrate.

April 4, 2022 Read more

A look into the magnetic future

Scientists have observed for the first time how tiny magnets in a special layout align themselves solely as a result of temperature changes. This view into processes that take place within so-called artificial spin ice could play an important role in the development of novel high-performance computers.

April 4, 2022 Read more

The platinum riddle (w/video)

Platinum is an important catalyst. But up until now, nobody know how exactly single platinum atoms behave during catalysis. Scientists could now solve the riddle, why some chemical reactions take place at temperatures at which this should not even be possible.

April 4, 2022 Read more

The nanodrug that attacks the cancer twice

A single nanoparticle does two jobs: enhancing the effectiveness of chemotherapy and reinvigorating the immune system.

April 4, 2022 Read more

Converting body heat into electricity: A step closer towards high-performance organic thermoelectrics

Researchers introduce a new path towards superior organic thermoelectric devices: highly efficient modulation doping of highly ordered organic semiconductors under high doping concentrations.

April 4, 2022 Read more

The material that could save industries heat

Scientists have found a common substance that can reversibly and rapidly store and release relatively large amounts of low-grade heat without decomposing. The research could lead to more efficient reuse of industrial waste heat.

April 4, 2022 Read more

Ultrafast multi-target control of tightly focused light fields

Researchers present a new concept for realizing ultrafast modulation of multi-target focal fields based on the facile combination of the time-dependent vectorial diffraction theory with the fast Fourier transform.

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Scientists develop environmentally safe, frost-resistant coatings

In an endeavor to make a more efficient product immune to ice, researchers have developed a longer-lasting alternative to conventional deicers.

April 4, 2022 Read more

Making a 'sandwich' out of magnets and topological insulators, potential for lossless electronics

Researchers discovered that a structure comprising an ultra-thin topological insulator sandwiched between two 2D ferromagnetic insulators becomes a large-bandgap quantum anomalous Hall insulator.

April 3, 2022 Read more

Quantum 'shock absorbers' allow perovskite to exhibit superfluorescence at room temperature

Semiconducting perovskites that exhibit superfluorescence at room temperature do so due to built-in thermal 'shock absorbers' which protect dipoles within the material from thermal interference. A new study explores the mechanism involved in this macroscopic quantum phase transition and explains how and why materials like perovskites exhibit macroscopic quantum coherence at high temperatures.

April 2, 2022 Read more

Researchers synthesize carbon nanosolenoid with Riemann surfaces

Scientists report a facile synthesis of a nanographene carbon nanosolenoid (CNS) material. The material consisted of continuous spiral graphene planes, as was typical of Riemann surface. The CNS displayed special photoluminescence and magnetic properties.

April 2, 2022 Read more

Deterministically integrated manipulation of magnetic skyrmions achieved in nanostructured device

Researchers have realized integrated manipulation of magnetic skyrmions by electrical currents, including writing, erasing and addressing single skyrmions in a CoZnMn nanostripe at room temperature.

April 2, 2022 Read more