Researchers have for the first time used optics rather than electronics to switch a nanometer-thick thin film device from completely dark to completely transparent, or light, at a speed of trillionths of a second.
Sep 14th, 2017
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Simulations and analysis provide new atomic-scale clues to material's enhanced hydrogen storage properties.
Sep 14th, 2017
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Scientists have demonstrated a theoretical mechanism for achieving half-metallicity that requires no transition metal atoms. This possibility would have a number of useful applications, including in implantable devices.
Sep 14th, 2017
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Materials with a shape memory so far have had to be composed of various components in a painstaking process but scientists now discovered self-healing powers of pure gold.
Sep 14th, 2017
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A team of researchers and clinicians received two grants totaling over $15.7 million to accelerate a possible nanomedicine treatment for metastatic breast cancer.
Sep 14th, 2017
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Achievement using cryo-electron microscopy aids gene research and drug development.
Sep 13th, 2017
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For the first time, physicists have successfully imaged spiral magnetic ordering in a multiferroic material. These materials are considered highly promising candidates for future data storage media.
Sep 13th, 2017
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A team of researchers has reported a breakthrough in stretchable electronics that can serve as an artificial skin, allowing a robotic hand to sense the difference between hot and cold, while also offering advantages for a wide range of biomedical devices.
Sep 13th, 2017
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Using advanced dynamic imaging, researchers have been able to visualise deformation (sound) waves in crystals and measured the effect on nanomagnetic elements.
Sep 13th, 2017
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Newly developed nanosensors can measure lipids, or fat molecules, in special compartments within live cells. These sensors have important implications for the development of new therapies to treat many diseases.
Sep 13th, 2017
Read moreNeutrons provide the solution to nanoscale examination of living cell membrane and confirm the existence of lipid rafts.
Sep 13th, 2017
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Platinum-decorated gold nanoparticles with dual functionalities for ultrasensitive colorimetric in vitro diagnostics.
Sep 13th, 2017
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Researchers have found a way to boost the strength of spider silk using graphene-based materials, paving the way for a novel class of high-performance bionic composites.
Sep 13th, 2017
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Researchers demonstrate an organic solvent-free method to prepare a porous PVDF multiwalled carbon nanotube foam using table salt as a sacrificial template.
Sep 13th, 2017
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Mapping the internal atomic structure of small particles just got easier thanks to a new computer algorithm and graphical user interface.
Sep 13th, 2017
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Researchers have recently discovered how to bypass the known drawbacks of the technical catalysts that are currently in use by means of a new material concept that makes the creation of significantly more efficient catalysts possible.
Sep 13th, 2017
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