Owing to recent spectacular advances in nanochemistry and nanomaterials sciences, substantial progress in the design and synthesis of synthetic nanoscale hybrid materials has been achieved with new or improved properties. This allows scientists to fabricate new hybrid materials that can be used in individual and multimodal imaging techniques simultaneously.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2015
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Researchers developed an ultrathin nanostructured surface that can change color by applying voltage. The new method doesn't need its own light source. Rather, it reflects the ambient light around it.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2015
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Forget that old glucose test. In the future, suits of light and virus-filled fibers could detect trace amounts of biological molecules.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2015
Read moreBiomedical engineers have invented a new device that more quickly and accurately 'listens in' on the chemical messages that tell our cells how to multiply. The tool improves our understanding of how cancerous growth begins, and could identify new targets for cancer medications.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2015
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Scientists have reported the first observation of spin precession of spin currents flowing in a silicon nanowire transport channel, and determined spin lifetimes and corresponding spin diffusion lengths in these nanoscale spintronic devices.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2015
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To study friction on the atomic scale, researchers have conducted the first atomic-scale experiments and simulations of friction at overlapping speeds.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2015
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Scientists can image the optical properties of individual nanoparticles with a novel microscope.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2015
Read moreScientists have demonstrated for the first time the ability to rapidly, reliably and simultaneously identify the 'handedness' of different molecules in a mixture.
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A recent estimate suggested there are more than 600 different types of graphene, commercial organisations looking to work with the material can struggle to know where to start. To address this problem, The University of Manchester and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have joined forces by holding the Graphene UK Standardisation Workshop at the National Graphene Institute (NGI).
Posted: Jun 24th, 2015
Read moreResearchers have developed a simple 'recipe' for combining multiple materials with single functions into a single material with multiple functions: movement, recall of movement and sensing - similar to muscles in animals. The materials could be used to make robotics far more efficient by replacing bulky devices with a single, smarter, life-like material.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2015
Read moreExperimental therapy restores normal fat metabolism in animals with atherosclerosis.
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Tunable hybrid polaritons realized with graphene layer on hexagonal boron nitride.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2015
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Engineers have demonstrated a bacterial method for the low-cost, environmentally friendly synthesis of aqueous soluble quantum dot nanocrystals at room temperature.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2015
Read moreScientists have managed to build a fully functional neuron by using organic bioelectronics. This artificial neuron contain no 'living' parts, but is capable of mimicking the function of a human nerve cell and communicate in the same way as our own neurons do.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2015
Read moreA nanostructure design enables pixels to produce two different colors depending on the polarization of the incident light.
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Researchers have created a new technique for resolving the orbits of multiple molecular orbitals, a previously impossible feat.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2015
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