How to bend and stretch a diamond
The brittle material can turn flexible when made into ultrafine nanoneedles, researchers find.
Apr 20th, 2018
Read moreThe brittle material can turn flexible when made into ultrafine nanoneedles, researchers find.
Apr 20th, 2018
Read moreResearchers use a high-resolution 3D printing process to produce tiny beam-shaping elements directly on optical microchips or fibers and, hence, enable low-loss coupling.
Apr 20th, 2018
Read moreA model of the interactions between magnetic vortices and material impurities could aid the development of low-power magnetic memories.
Apr 20th, 2018
Read moreElectricity can be used to control magnetic patterns in an alloy, opening up the possibility of using them in high-performance devices.
Apr 20th, 2018
Read moreA remote command could one day send immune cells on a rampage against a malignant tumor. The ability to mobilize, from outside the body, targeted cancer immunotherapy inside the body has taken a step closer to becoming reality.
Apr 20th, 2018
Read moreResearchers image single doped fullerene molecules using scanning tunneling microscopy.
Apr 20th, 2018
Read moreScientists have been able to confine light down to a space one atom thick in dimension, the smallest confinement ever possible.
Apr 19th, 2018
Read moreAn experiment that, by design, was not supposed to turn up anything of note instead produced a 'bewildering' surprise, according to the scientists who made the discovery: a new way of creating gold nanoparticles and nanowires using water droplets.
Apr 19th, 2018
Read moreResearchers have created a biodegradable composite made of silk fibers that can be used to repair broken load-bearing bones without the complications sometimes presented by other materials.
Apr 19th, 2018
Read moreResearchers have made a significant breakthrough in computational science by combining atomic-level modelling and machine learning. For the first time, the method has been used to realistically model how an amorphous material is formed at the atomic level.
Apr 19th, 2018
Read morePerfection is not everything, according to an international team of researchers whose 2-D materials study shows that defects can enhance a material's physical, electrochemical, magnetic, energy and catalytic properties.
Apr 19th, 2018
Read moreA silk hybrid material attacks bacteria when illuminated by a green light, thanks to a far-red fluorescent protein researchers transferred to its genetic makeup.
Apr 19th, 2018
Read moreScientists have found a new effect regarding the optical excitation of charge carriers in a solar semiconductor. It could facilitate the utilization of infrared light, which is normally lost in solar devices.
Apr 19th, 2018
Read moreA new blood test using gold nanoparticles could soon give oncologists an early and more accurate prognosis of how cancer treatment is progressing and help guide the on-going therapy of patients.
Apr 19th, 2018
Read moreCollaborative research team developing biological sensors that would analyze saliva, send information electronically to doctors.
Apr 19th, 2018
Read moreFor the first time, scientists have successfully created optically active, chiral gold nanoparticles using amino acids and peptides.
Apr 19th, 2018
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