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Breaching the blood-brain barrier to deliver precious payloads

Researchers have shown that a combination of ultrasound and RNA-loaded nanoparticles can temporarily open the protective blood-brain barrier, allowing the delivery of potent medicine to brain tumors.

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Discovery of huge Raman scattering at atomic point contact

Atomic-scale optical spectroscopy revealed huge Raman scattering when an atomic point contact is formed between a plasmonic silver tip and a single-crystal silicon surface. Atomic point contact Raman scattering paves the way for ultrasensitive atomic-scale vibrational spectroscopy to investigate surface structures.

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Scientists direct and measure quantum drum duet

Like conductors of a spooky symphony, researchers have 'entangled' two small mechanical drums and precisely measured their linked quantum properties. Entangled pairs like this might someday perform computations and transmit data in large-scale quantum networks.

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Physicists find a novel way to switch antiferromagnetism on and off

The findings could lead to faster, more secure memory storage, in the form of antiferromagnetic bits.

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Capturing light from a single photon

An international team of researchers have achieved a new way to detect a single photon with the help of 2D materials.

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Researchers demonstrate pixelated metasurface based on silicon-on-insulated wafer

Researchers have numerically simulated and experimentally demonstrated a pixelated metasurface based on the silicon-on-insulated (SOI) wafer. According to the researchers, the metasurface can realize detection of full-Stokes polarization vectors in near infrared.

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Just a few atoms thick: new functional materials developed

Using the smallest 'construction set' in the world, researchers are designing new materials for computer chips, light-emitting diodes and solar cells.

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In graphene process, resistance is useful

Researchers use laser-induced graphene process to create micron-scale patterns in photoresist.

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Rapid diagnostic device detects heart failure from saliva

The instrument contains a biosensor chip and functionalized magnetic nanoparticles, key to detecting the biomarkers found in saliva.

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2D materials offer unique stretching properties

Calculations predict that atom-thin sheets of carbon chalcogenides will grow wider when stretched in any direction.

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Tailoring the Kondo effect, one molecule at a time

Researchers manipulate the Kondo resonance of lanthanide-porphyrin nanoarchitectures through tip-induced chemistry. This research result manifests the potential of tip-induced coordination chemistry for spintronics.

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Supersymmetry-inspired microlaser arrays pave way for powering chip-sized optical systems

Thanks to the math behind supersymmetry theory, engineers have achieved single-mode lasing from such a microlaser array. By calculating the necessary properties for 'superpartner' arrays, they can cancel out the unwanted extra modes.

May 5, 2021 Read more

Citrus derivative makes transparent wood 100 percent renewable

Five years after introducing see-through wood building material, researchers have taken it to another level. They found a way to make their composite 100 percent renewable - and more translucent - by infusing wood with a clear bio-plastic made from citrus fruit.

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Nano flashlight enables new applications of light

Design of miniature optical systems could lead to future cell phones that can detect viruses and more.

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A material keyboard made of graphene

Researchers have succeeded in turning specially prepared graphene flakes either into insulators or into superconductors by applying an electric voltage. This technique even works locally, meaning that in the same graphene flake regions with completely different physical properties can be realized side by side.

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Like a Trojan horse, graphene oxide can act as a carrier of organic pollutants to fish

A study shows that graphene oxide nanomaterials, alone and combined with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pose a potential source of toxicity to fish, but at concentrations that are above the currently expected environmental levels.

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