Scientists have successfully developed room temperature multiferroic materials by a layer-by-layer assembly of nanosheet building blocks. Multiferroic materials are expected to play a vital role in the development of next-generation multifunctional electronic devices.
Sep 23rd, 2016
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Researchers have recently shown that magnetic bacteria are a promising vehicle for more efficiently delivering tumor-fighting drugs.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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A new paper reviews the latest research into the fabrication of Pd-Ru bimetallic nanomaterials.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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Scientists have demonstrated biocompatible nanostructures for delivering siRNA and efficiently silencing genes.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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Researchers have succeeded in producing short chains and rings of gold nanoparticles with unprecedented precision. They used a special kind of nanoparticles with a well-defined structure and linked them together with molecular bridges.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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Scientists are on the hunt for nanomaterials that could improve engine technology in a big way.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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Scientists exploit a famous bit of quantum weirdness to film a molecule's inner life.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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When a baseball pitcher uncorks a nasty curveball, the spinning motion of the ball forces air to flow around it at different speeds, causing the ball to 'break' in one direction. The physics behind this kind of deflection also work at smaller scales.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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Researchers are developing tiny, sophisticated technological and biological machines enabling non-invasive, selective therapies. Their creations include genetically modified cells that can be activated via brain waves, and swarms of microrobots that facilitate highly precise application of drugs.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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To help imbibers easily and quickly know when they've had enough, scientists have developed a flexible, wearable patch that can detect a person's blood-alcohol level from his or her sweat.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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Researchers developed a hybrid nanosensor incorporating magnetic resonance and fluorescence. Lab testing of milk showed the detector could sense varying concentrations of a pathogenic strain of E. coli known as O157:H7 in less than an hour.
Sep 22nd, 2016
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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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