Artificial synaptic transistors on paper substrates
A paper-based device that mimics the electrochemical signalling in the human brain has been created by a group of researchers from China.
Feb 13th, 2014
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New type of nanoparticle could improve the antimicrobial coating of implants
Chemists have developed a one-pot synthesis process to encapsulate nanoparticles. This type of particle could improve the antimicrobial coating of implants.
Feb 13th, 2014
Read moreStirring-up atomtronics in a quantum circuit
Using a superfluid atomtronic circuit, physicists have demonstrated a tool that is critical to electronics: hysteresis. This is the first time that hysteresis has been observed in an ultracold atomic gas.
Feb 12th, 2014
Read morePhysicists reveal novel magnetoelectric effect
New research at the University of Arkansas reveals a novel magnetoelectric effect that makes it possible to control magnetism with an electric field.
Feb 12th, 2014
Read moreSuper-resolution research highlight
Joint research on super-resolution microscopy from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Cambridge has been selected as a highlight of 2013 by the Journal of Optics, making it freely available to view online.
Feb 12th, 2014
Read more'Frontiers of Knowledge Award' for pioneers of electron microscopy
The Spanish foundation BBVA honors Haider, together with Prof. Harald Rose, senior professor at Ulm University, and Prof. Knut Urban, Forschungszentrum Jülich, for the development of a new generation of so-called aberration-corrected electron microscopes that reach resolutions in the atomic range.
Feb 12th, 2014
Read moreWandering heat: Anomalous heat distribution in one-dimensional systems
According to Fourier's law, heat spreads evenly throughout a system. For two- and one-dimensional objects such as films or the finest of wires, however, other rules seem to apply. Scientists have now pinned these down.
Feb 12th, 2014
Read moreLight and heat boost memory capacity
Adding carbon gives iron-platinum nanocrystals the ideal optical properties for heat-assisted magnetic recording.
Feb 12th, 2014
Read moreKeeping cool by layering up with nanoparticles
Nanoparticles with a core-shell structure can minimize the overheating of cells during bioimaging experiments.
Feb 12th, 2014
Read moreComputer models show device size matters
Simulating the magnetic properties of nanostructures could help to design electronic memories with increased storage capacity.
Feb 12th, 2014
Read moreNanoplasmonics helps explain the unusual electrodynamics of nanostructures
Scientists have used both simulations and experiments to investigate the nonlocal effects displayed by electrons in metal nanostructures.
Feb 12th, 2014
Read moreMolecular collisions now imaged better than ever
Molecular physicists from Radboud University Nijmegen have produced images of the changes in direction of colliding nitrogen monoxide molecules (NO) with unprecedented sharpness. By combining a Stark decelerator with advanced imaging techniques, they were able to obtain very high resolution images of the collision processes.
Feb 11th, 2014
Read moreResearchers find purely chemical way to target therapeutic nanocontainers to cells
Scientists have discovered that a polymer can provide a key to get into tumors: They have developed a new paradigm to home nanoparticles, containers that measure a few 100 nanometers in size, to endothelial cells.
Feb 11th, 2014
Read moreHow to make graphene superconducting
Researchers at the University of Vienna unveiled the superconducting pairing mechanism in Calcium doped graphene using the ARPES method.
Feb 11th, 2014
Read moreFine-tuning a rainbow of colors at the nanoscale
By varying the geometry of the nanoholes in plasmonic color filters - their diameter, shape, periodicity and pattern - it is possible to control the colors that are transmitted and to create transmit a broad spectrum of colors for imaging applications.
Feb 11th, 2014
Read moreNew fingerprint technology uses piezoelectric nanowire matrices
CEA-Leti today announced the launch of PIEZOMAT, a research project funded by the European Commission to design and implement a new technology of fingerprint sensor that enables ultra-high resolution reconstruction of the smallest features of human fingerprints.
Feb 11th, 2014
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