Engineers use internal stresses to strengthen materials for specific technical purposes. Now it seems that evolution has long 'known' about this trick, and has put it to use in our natural teeth.
Jun 10th, 2015
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Experimental physicists have successfully cooled molecules in a gas of sodium potassium to a temperature of 500 nanokelvins - just a hair above absolute zero. They found that the ultracold molecules were relatively long-lived and stable, resisting reactive collisions with other molecules. The molecules also exhibited very strong dipole moments.
Jun 10th, 2015
Read moreResearchers have created wearable sensor patches that detect harmful UV radiation and dangerous, toxic gases such as hydrogen and nitrogen dioxide.
Jun 10th, 2015
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A new reveals that designers of metallic-glass-based nanodevices must account for tiny flaws in alloy frameworks to avoid unpredictable catastrophic failure. Understanding how nanoscale metallic glass fractures and fails when subjected to external stress is critical to improving its reliability in devices and composites.
Jun 10th, 2015
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Scientists have developed a fast, simple process for making platinum 'nano-raspberries' - microscopic clusters of nanoscale particles of the precious metal. The berry-like shape is significant because it has a high surface area, which is helpful in the design of catalysts.
Jun 9th, 2015
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Melting materials along a tree-shaped pattern of lines could improve the efficiency of phase change energy storage systems.
Jun 9th, 2015
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Advanced method opens up new opportunities for investigation of dynamic processes.
Jun 9th, 2015
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It can analyze the chemical composition of substances and detect biological objects, such as viral disease markers, which appear when the immune system responds to incurable or hard-to-cure diseases, including HIV, hepatitis, herpes, and many others.
Jun 9th, 2015
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Engineers built a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets.The work combines expertise in manipulating droplet fluid dynamics with a fundamental element of computer science - an operating clock.
Jun 9th, 2015
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Systems allowing label-free molecular-level detection are expected to have enormous impact on biochemical sciences. Research focuses on materials and technologies based on exploiting the coupling of light with electronic charge oscillations, the so-called localized surface plasmon resonances, in metallic nanostructured antennas.
Jun 9th, 2015
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Scientists are using this special gas as a model system to more easily study the largely unknown mechanism of the superfluid phase transition in 2D structures. The researchers hope to gain new insight into the so-called room-temperature superconductor, a hypothetical material that does not require cooling to achieve lossless conduction of electricity.
Jun 9th, 2015
Read moreFor the first time liposomes that imitate cells in the process of natural death have been used to treat diabetes.
Jun 9th, 2015
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Research provides new information as to why some cells don't work properly following a heart attack.
Jun 9th, 2015
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A Transdisciplinary Areas of Excellence grant funds discovering the role ingested nanoparticles play in the physiology and function of the gut and gut microbiome.
Jun 8th, 2015
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Imagine a favorite T-shirt that does not dull with time, or a car that never needs a new coat of paint. New research may be able to make this a reality in the near future.
Jun 8th, 2015
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Researchers have for the first time visualized the growth of nanoscale chemical complexes in real time, demonstrating that processes in liquids at the scale of one-billionth of a meter can be documented as they happen.
Jun 8th, 2015
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