Meteorite impact on a nano scale
Hitting a surface with high-energy, heavy ions has quite similar effects like meteor impacts - only on a much smaller scale.
Aug 29th, 2016
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How researchers capture nanoparticles in water bodies
For a number of years now, an increasing number of synthetic nanoparticles have been manufactured and incorporated into various products, such as cosmetics. For the first time, a research project provides reliable findings on their presence in water bodies.
Aug 29th, 2016
Read moreNew Center to assess safety of engineered nanomaterials
Researchers at the new Harvard-NIEHS Nanosafety Research Center at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health are working to understand the unique properties of ENMs - both beneficial and harmful - and to ultimately establish safety standards for the field.
Aug 29th, 2016
Read moreResearchers develop method to speed up detection of infectious diseases, cancer
Researchers have found a way to speed and simplify the detection of proteins in blood and plasma opening up the potential for diagnosing the early presence of infectious diseases or cancer during a doctor's office visit. The new test takes about 10 minutes as opposed to two to four hours for current state-of-the-art tests.
Aug 29th, 2016
Read moreFast switching all-solid-state wavelength-dependent bipolar photodetector
Researchers describe the first all solid-state wavelength-dependent bipolar photodetectors with fast response times and tunable switching wavelengths.
Aug 29th, 2016
Read moreMaking high quality vertical nanowires with full control over their size, density and distribution
Scientists have demonstrated a novel method of making high quality vertical nanowires with full control over their size, density and distribution over a semi-conducting substrate.
Aug 29th, 2016
Read moreImportant advance made with new approach to 'control' cancer, not eliminate it
Researchers have created a new drug delivery system that could improve the effectiveness of an emerging concept in cancer treatment - to dramatically slow and control tumors on a long-term, sustained basis, not necessarily aiming for their complete elimination.
Aug 29th, 2016
Read moreElectronic circuits printed at 1 micron resolution
Researchers have developed a printing technique for forming electronic circuits and thin-film transistors (TFTs) with line width and line spacing both being 1 micron.
Aug 29th, 2016
Read moreCell-compatible OLEDs for use with patients
Cytocompatibility studies of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have been carried out on cell cultures for the first time to test how well OLEDs are tolerated by cells.
Aug 29th, 2016
Read moreElectrons at the speed limit
Scientists have investigated how fast electrons can ultimately be controlled with electric fields. Their insights are of importance for the petahertz electronics of the future.
Aug 26th, 2016
Read moreSymmetry crucial for building key biomaterial collagen in the lab
Researchers describe what may be the key to growing functional, natural collagen fibers outside of the body: symmetry.
Aug 25th, 2016
Read moreA nanoscale wireless communication system via plasmonic antennas
Greater control affords 'in-plane' transmission of waves at or near visible light.
Aug 25th, 2016
Read moreForces of nature: Interview with microscopy innovators Gerd Binnig and Christoph Gerber
The inventors of one of the most versatile tools in modern science - the atomic force microscope, or AFM - tell their story in an interview published online this week.
Aug 25th, 2016
Read morePhysicists discovered new peculiarities of a material with a giant magnetocaloric effect
Scientists showed that the smallest structural change in the iron-rhodium alloys may result in a significant change in its magnetocaloric properties.
Aug 25th, 2016
Read moreDesigning ultrasound protein tools with molecular engineering
Researchers engineered protein-shelled nanostructures called gas vesicles - which reflect sound waves - to exhibit new properties useful for ultrasound technologies. In the future, these gas vesicles could be administered to a patient to visualize tissues of interest.
Aug 25th, 2016
Read moreA promising route to the scalable production of highly crystalline graphene films
Researchers discovered a procedure to restore defective graphene oxide structures that cause the material to display low carrier mobility.
Aug 25th, 2016
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