World's fastest Bose-Einstein condensate
Researchers have created a Bose-Einstein condensate with record speed, creating the fascinating phase of matter in about 100 femtoseconds.
Jun 22nd, 2020
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A fresh twist in chiral topology
Electrons in chiral crystals, solid-state materials with definite handedness, can behave in unexpected ways. An interdisciplinary research team has realized now a theoretically predicted peculiar electronic state in a chiral compound, PtGa, from the class of topological materials.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read moreNIH grant to bioprint nanoparticles for ovarian cancer immunotherapy
The particles will be produced using 3D-bioprinting, enabling them to be released at specified intervals, instead of a continuous slow release.
Jun 19th, 2020
Read morePolymers can fine-tune attractions between suspended nanocubes
Interactions between hollow silica nanocubes suspended in a solution can be adjusted by varying the concentration of polymer molecules added to the mixture.
Jun 19th, 2020
Read moreResearchers pioneer new production method for heterostructure devices based on 2D materials
The new study focuses on a production method, based around mechanical abrasion, where multilayer structures are formed through directly abrading different Van der Waals material powders directly on top of one another.
Jun 19th, 2020
Read moreEngineers design a device that operates like a brain synapse
Ion-based technology may enable energy-efficient simulations of the brain's learning process, for neural network AI systems.
Jun 19th, 2020
Read more'Nanotorch' highlights ultrafast biochemical reactions
Researchers used single nanoparticles that illuminate single fluorescent molecules to detect ultrafast biochemical reactions.
Jun 19th, 2020
Read moreThe new architecture of science: Learning from graphene
What does it mean to design a science lab today? What are the new challenges for the architects of science buildings? And what is the best method to study the constantly evolving architectures of science?
Jun 19th, 2020
Read moreResearchers create a photographic film of a molecular switch
Molecular switches are the molecular counterparts of electrical switches and play an important role in many processes in nature. Nanotechnologist now produced a photographic film at the atomic level and thus tracked the motion of a molecular building block.
Jun 18th, 2020
Read moreGraphene smart textiles developed for heat adaptive clothing
New research on the two-dimensional material graphene has allowed researchers to create smart adaptive clothing which can lower the body temperature of the wearer in hot climates.
Jun 18th, 2020
Read moreTowards ultra-sensitive diagnostic chips
Researchers have developed an ultra-thin nanostructure gold film with the potential to revolutionise next-generation bio-sensing chips.
Jun 18th, 2020
Read moreGraphdiyne as a functional lithium-ion storage material
Graphdiyne is as flat and thin as graphene, which is the one-atomic-layer-thin version of graphite, but it has a higher porosity and adjustable electronic properties. Researchers describe its simple bottom-up synthesis from tailor-made precursor molecules.
Jun 18th, 2020
Read moreMolecular robot swarms
Scientists are looking for ways to make millions of molecule-sized robots swarm together so they can perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
Jun 18th, 2020
Read moreLaser technology: The turbulence and the comb
So-called frequency combs play a major role in laser research today. Scientists now succeeded in producing this special kind of light, using simple circular quantum cascade lasers - a result that seemed to contradict conventional laser theories completely.
Jun 18th, 2020
Read more2D Metallene electrocatalysts developed for electrochemical CO2 reduction
As a newly emerging two-dimensional material, the metallenes with ultrathin morphology will enable a superhigh atomic utilization for catalysis, leading to the partial homogenization of such heterogeneous catalysts, presenting great potentials in electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction.
Jun 18th, 2020
Read moreNanosafety research without animal experiments
In order to reduce the number of animal experiments in research, researchers are now combining test tube experiments with mathematical modelling.
Jun 18th, 2020
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