Scientists have created a new method to help researchers discover how much the virus's size matters. By mutating a single amino acid in a bacterial virus, the team drastically changed the size of its protein coating, or capsid.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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New multiferroic material is a big step in march toward ultra-low power electronics.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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An international team of researchers has invented a method to control the formation of defects called 'shear bands' in metals manufacturing processes and discovered microscopic details of how the defects are created.
Sep 21st, 2016
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Researchers put metal-oxides and organic magnets together; applications for electronics in sight.
Sep 21st, 2016
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Researchers have discovered that a newly developed plasmonic fabrication capability and design can improve the performance of biosensors, solar cells and photodetectors.
Sep 21st, 2016
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Researchers have succeeded in linking graphene with another important chemical group, the porphyrins. These new hybrid structures could also be used in the field of molecular electronics, catalysis or even as sensors.
Sep 21st, 2016
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Scientists haver performed characterisation of two large, complex silver nanoclusters of 136 and 374 atoms.
Sep 21st, 2016
Read moreResearchers have devised a new way to electrically contact graphene with liquid metals rather than typical rigid electrodes such as gold and silver.
Sep 21st, 2016
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Scientists demonstrate optimization and visualization of a catalyst used to convert carbon dioxide waste to methane gas and chemical intermediates.
Sep 21st, 2016
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What if you could easily print a thin layer of material - for use anywhere - that would allow you to create flexible energy harvesters or coolers? That may soon be a reality.
Sep 21st, 2016
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A clever electro-thermal actuator and lever system keeps hard drive recording heads on track.
Sep 21st, 2016
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The pursuit of microscopic drugs that can be tracked as they fight cancer is a step closer.
Sep 21st, 2016
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Multi stimuli-responsive nanocapsules selectively deliver drugs to exactly where they are needed.
Sep 21st, 2016
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Researchers have developed a novel type of 'buckypaper' - a thin film composed of carbon nanotubes - that has better thermal and electrical properties than most types of buckypaper previously developed.
Sep 20th, 2016
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A recent quantum mechanical study of graphene has elucidated the intercalation mechanism and pathways for graphene decoupling from the copper substrate.
Sep 20th, 2016
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By making a detector's pixels smarter than ever, DARPA aims to lay the foundation for multi-purpose imaging sensors that behave like many types of eyes at once.
Sep 20th, 2016
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