The results from the 3rd SUN annual meeting showed great advancement of the project. The meeting was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK on 4-5 October 2016 where the project partners presented the results obtained during the second reporting period of the project.
Oct 31st, 2016
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After sensing dangerous chemicals, the carbon-nanotube-enhanced plants send an alert.
Oct 31st, 2016
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Artificial muscles made significant gains when a literal twist in the development approach uncovered the tensile or stretchy abilities of polymer fibers once they were twisted and coiled into a spring-like geometry. Now, researchers have improved these tensile properties even further by focusing on the thermal properties of the polymer fiber and the molecular structure that makes best use of the chiral configuration.
Oct 31st, 2016
Read moreIf drugs could be targeted to exactly the right place in the body, we could probably do with significantly smaller doses - and consequently fewer side effects. To allow for such precise delivery, we need tiny nanocarriers and even smaller nanotrackers to monitor them. Researchers are working on both of these.
Oct 31st, 2016
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Scientists have presented breakthrough results supporting the building of technology-relevant majority gates based on spin waves.
Oct 31st, 2016
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Extremely accurate measurements of microwave signals can potentially be used for data encryption based on quantum cryptography and other purposes.
Oct 31st, 2016
Read moreA research team discovers that the widely used semiconducting material is almost as wear-resistant as diamonds.
Oct 28th, 2016
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Electrical currents can be now be switched on and off at the smallest conceivable scale enabling a new generation of 'green electronics' with the potential for great impact on the digital economy.
Oct 28th, 2016
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Scientists use 3D visualization to map striking and transformative nanoscale surface structures.
Oct 28th, 2016
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A signature of an exotic state of matter that remains disordered even at very low temperatures has been experimentally identified.
Oct 28th, 2016
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Researchers have developed new surface materials that are extremely difficult to wet both by water and oil. Because they don't need isolating air to stay trapped between the droplet and rough surface to prevent wetting, these surface materials work even when wet by another liquid.
Oct 28th, 2016
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Physicists have designed a light source that emits photon pairs. Two-photon sources are particularly well suited for tap-proof data encryption. The experiment's key ingredients: a semiconductor crystal and some sticky tape.
Oct 28th, 2016
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Engineers have developed a design for a functional nanoscale computing device. The concept involves a dense, three-dimensional circuit operating on an unconventional type of logic that could, theoretically, be packed into a block no bigger than 50 nanometers on any side.
Oct 27th, 2016
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Scientists have proven, for the first time, that introducing slight chemical modifications in DNA molecules may allow to introduce metallic ions in it, keeping its double-stranded structure and molecular recognition properties (for other DNA molecules, enzymes, proteins, etc.).
Oct 27th, 2016
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Physicists have studied carbon structures, obtained from the reduced graphene oxide. They the created a bolometer prototype on the basis of these structures.
Oct 27th, 2016
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An electric current will not only heat a hybrid metamaterial, but will also trigger it to change state and fade into the background like a chameleon in what may be the proof-of-concept of the first controllable metamaterial device, or metadevice, according to a team of engineers.
Oct 27th, 2016
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