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Quick COVID breathalyzer could allow mass screening in public places

Researchers have designed a handheld breathalyzer that contains a chip with three surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensors attached to silver nanocubes. When a person exhales into the device for 10 seconds, compounds in their breath chemically interact with the sensors.

February 2, 2022 Read more

Researchers develop multifunctional carbon nanotube fiber technology

Researchers succeeded in developing the world's first multifunctional carbon nanotube fiber which simultaneously achieves high energy storage capacity and high strength.

February 2, 2022 Read more

Cooling matter from a distance

Researchers have succeeded in forming a control loop consisting of two quantum systems separated by a distance of one meter. Within this loop, one quantum system - a vibrating nanomechanical membrane - is cooled by the other - a cloud of atoms, and the two systems are coupled to one another by laser light.

February 2, 2022 Read more

Novel nanoparticle SARS-CoV-2 vaccine combines immune focusing and self-assembling nanoparticles to elicit more potent protection

Engineered to use DNA to instruct cells to make vaccine in vivo and can be stored at room temperature, easily transported to remote locations.

February 1, 2022 Read more

More predictive in vitro assays may improve nanomedicine

Protein corona formation information exploited to optimize carriers for nanomedical applications.

February 1, 2022 Read more

Engineering a multi-element atomic arrangement

For the first time, a research group has demonstrated the single phase nanoscale multi-principal element intermetallics with up to 8 different metals - completely devoid of particle growth, or phase separation - via a novel multi-element disorder-to-order strategy.

February 1, 2022 Read more

Analysis and containment of defect formation in Zn3P2 crystals: a nanoscale approach

Researchers use a nanostructure fabrication strategy to produce nanowires of Zn3P2 with reduced elastic strains, which results in much less defects at the interface with the substrate.

February 1, 2022 Read more

Thin is cool: researchers unveil the excellent heat dissipation properties of layered semiconductors down to the monolayer

A new study reveals the thermal transport properties of ultrathin crystals of molybdenum diselenide, a two-dimensional material of the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) family. Outperforming silicon, TMD materials prove to be outstanding candidates for electronic and optoelectronic applications, such as flexible and wearable devices.

February 1, 2022 Read more

On the spot drug delivery with light-controlled organic microswimmers

Scientists develop organic microparticles that can steer through biological fluids and dissolved blood in unprecedented ways. Even in very salty liquids, the microswimmers can be propelled forward at high speed by visible light, either individually or as a swarm.

February 1, 2022 Read more

Machine learning fine-tunes flash graphene

Scientists are using machine-learning techniques to streamline the process of synthesizing graphene from waste through flash Joule heating.

January 31, 2022 Read more

2D material in three dimensions

How do you integrate as much as possible of the 2D material graphene into a limited space? By producing it not on a flat surface, but on a 3D nanostructure.

January 31, 2022 Read more

Molecular machine in nano cage

A tiny gyroscope that would fit in a human cell and that can be controlled from the outside.

January 31, 2022 Read more

Carbon nanomaterials for future quantum technologies

Twelve years of intense work are now bearing fruit - researchers have developed unique carbon materials with quite astonishing, hitherto unattained electronic and magnetic properties, which one day could be used to build quantum computers with novel architectures.

January 31, 2022 Read more

Cats in a cage: Novel hybrid nanocages for faster catalysis

A novel hybrid ferritin nanocage with histidine residues shows 1.5 times higher metal ion uptake and improved catalytic efficiency for alcohol production. These findings suggest that hybrid bio-nanocages could effectively catalyze reactions to yield industrially important products.

January 31, 2022 Read more

Scientists weave atomically thin wires into ribbons

Researchers have succeeded in using nanowires of a transition-metal chalcogenide to make atomically thin nanoribbons.

January 29, 2022 Read more

Shining a light on synthetic dimensions

Humans experience the world in three dimensions, but scientists have developed a way to create synthetic dimensions to better understand the fundamental laws of the Universe and possibly apply them to advanced technologies.

January 28, 2022 Read more