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How wet chopsticks hitting hot oil advance our understanding of physics

Cooks throughout Asia put moist bamboo chopsticks into oil in a frying pan, watching the bubbles that form and listening to the sizzling sound they make as they burst to gauge the perfect cooking temperature. Scientists used the technique as inspiration to learn about the complex physics behind wet chopsticks hitting hot oil.

Jun 16th, 2022

Nanochannels light the way towards new medicine

A new technique, called nanofluidic scattering microscopy, can help to find the most promising drug candidates at an earlier stage.

Jun 16th, 2022

New insights into binding configuration and mobility of molecules on nanoparticle surfaces

Physicists investigate binding between molecules and nanoparticles with high resolution

Jun 15th, 2022

2D monolayer polymeric fullerene is the latest member of the carbon family

Researchers developed a new interlayer bonding cleavage strategy to prepare a two-dimensional monolayer polymeric fullerene.

Jun 15th, 2022

World's first verified measurement comparison for graphene production

World's first measurement comparison provides a verified source of data and more accurate measurement standards for use by the global graphene industry.

Jun 15th, 2022

All-optical switching on the nanometer scale

Researchers have successfully demonstrated the ultrafast emergence of all-optical switching by generating a nanometer scale grating by interference of two pulses in the extreme ultraviolet spectral range.

Jun 15th, 2022

Ink coating could enable devices powered by heat

Researchers report that they are closing in on a way to replace batteries for wearables and low-power applications in the internet of things (IoT). The answer lies in an ink coating that enables low-grade heat, which is generated by devices, to be converted to electrical power.

Jun 15th, 2022

Functionalizing van der Waals materials by shaping them

Researchers propose a novel method to fabricate two-dimensional PN junctions. This method simplifies the semiconductor manufacturing process and is well-suited to develop (opto-)electronic devices at the ultimate physical limit.

Jun 15th, 2022

Moth wing-inspired sound absorbing wallpaper in sight after breakthrough

Researchers have discovered that the scales on moth wings act as excellent sound absorbers even when placed on an artificial surface.

Jun 15th, 2022

Scientists create nanoparticle that helps fight solid tumors

Researchers have discovered a possible new approach in treating solid tumors through the creation of a novel nanoparticle.

Jun 14th, 2022

DNA nanotech safe for medical use, new study suggests

Researchers found that while high amounts of DNA nanotechnology devices can cause a slight immune response, it isn't marked enough to be dangerous. Their findings also suggest that different shapes may be more conducive to different therapeutic applications.

Jun 14th, 2022

New, highly tunable composite materials - with a twist

Mathematicians have found that they can design a range of composite materials from moire patterns created by rotating and stretching one lattice relative to another. Their electrical and other physical properties can change - sometimes quite abruptly, depending on whether the resulting moire patterns are regularly repeating or non-repeating.