Nanoparticles used to breach mucus barrier in lungs
Proof-of-concept study conducted in mice a key step toward better treatments for lung diseases.
Aug 3rd, 2015
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Vaccine with virus-like nanoparticles effective treatment for RSV, study finds
Researchers suggest this vaccine induces long-term protection against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and could serve as a novel treatment option for this disease. There is currently no licensed RSV vaccine.
Aug 3rd, 2015
Read moreResearchers clear the way for fast plasmonic chips
Researchers have developed a new method for optical communication on a chip, which will give a possibility to decrease the size of optical and optoelectronic elements and increase the computer performance several tenfold. They have proposed the way to completely eliminate energy losses of surface plasmons in optical devices.
Aug 3rd, 2015
Read moreQuantum states in a nano-object manipulated using a mechanical system
Scientists have used resonators made from single-crystalline diamonds to develop a novel device in which a quantum system is integrated into a mechanical oscillating system. For the first time, the researchers were able to show that this mechanical system can be used to coherently manipulate an electron spin embedded in the resonator - without external antennas or complex microelectronic structures.
Aug 3rd, 2015
Read moreGraphene enables ultrafast laser pulses for spectroscopy and biomedical applications
Researchers have developed an optical fibre laser that emits pulses with durations equivalent to just a few wavelengths of the light used. This fastest ever device based on graphene will be ideal for use in ultrafast spectroscopy, and in surgical lasers that avoid heat damage to living tissue.
Aug 3rd, 2015
Read moreMulti-million pound carbon nanotube research to transform global manufacturing sector
Engineering experts from Ulster University and the University of Cambridge have received 2.8 million pounds of funding for research into a carbon-based material that could transform the global manufacturing sector.
Aug 3rd, 2015
Read moreCompact optical data transmission
Researchers developed a plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator of only 12.5 micrometers length which converts digital electrical signals into optical signals at a rate of up to 108 gigabit per second,
Aug 3rd, 2015
Read moreSelf-assembling nano... whiskers? (w/video)
Researchers have developed a way to make these structures grow in an electron microscope. By recording the atoms self-assembling to form the whiskers - renamed in modern fashion as nanowires - they hope to understand how they grow and how to tune the growth conditions to build nano-devices.
Aug 3rd, 2015
Read moreProving nanoparticles in sunscreen products
Loads of cosmetics like sunscreen lotions contain titanium dioxide. These nanoparticles are contentious. But it is difficult to prove that the particles are in the lotions. Using a newly developed method, the particles can now be calculated.
Aug 3rd, 2015
Read moreParity effect observed in graphene
A new phenomenon in which flow of electricity completely changes with odd and even numbers of junctions.
Aug 3rd, 2015
Read moreResearchers demystify the ferroelectric properties observed in hafnium-oxide-based thin films
Researchers report insights into the properties of epitaxial hafnium-oxide-based thin films, confirming a stable ferroelectric phase up to 450 C, and revealing a potentially useful device material.
Aug 3rd, 2015
Read moreNew design brings world's first solar battery to performance milestone
Sunlight makes the new 'aqueous solar flow' battery 20 percent more efficient than today's lithium-iodine batteries.
Aug 2nd, 2015
Read moreCombining graphene and nanotubes to make digital switches
Researchers have created these digital switches by combining graphene and boron nitride nanotubes.
Aug 2nd, 2015
Read moreBend me, shape me, any way you want me: Scientists curve nanoparticle sheets into complex forms
Scientists have been making nanoparticles for more than two decades in two-dimensional sheets, three-dimensional crystals and random clusters. But they have never been able to get a sheet of nanoparticles to curve or fold into a complex three-dimensional structure. Now researchers have found a simple way to do exactly that.
Aug 2nd, 2015
Read moreFrom cameras to computers, new material could change how we work and play
Serendipity has as much a place in science as in love. That's what physicists found during their four-year project to modify graphene.
Jul 31st, 2015
Read moreNew insight on how crystals form may advance materials, health and basic science research
An international group of researchers has shown how nature uses a variety of pathways to grow crystals that go beyond the classical, one-atom-at-a-time route.
Jul 31st, 2015
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