Multifunctional metalens unlocks with light
Flat optical device has applications in augmented and virtual reality, ultra-high resolution microscopy, holography.
Mar 13th, 2018
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Researchers develop spectroscopic thermometer for nanomaterials
Scientists have found a new way to take the local temperature of a material from an area about a billionth of a meter wide.
Mar 13th, 2018
Read moreMagnetism has the pull to transform our digital lives
Digital memory and security could be transformed according to new research, which has for the first time showed that antiferromagnets can be easily controlled and read by switching the direction of ordinary electrical currents at super-fast speed.
Mar 13th, 2018
Read moreQuantum dot lighting technology takes forward leap thanks to new superacid treatment
A 'superacid' much stronger than automobile battery acid has enabled a key advance toward a new generation of LED lighting that?s safer, less expensive and more user friendly.
Mar 13th, 2018
Read moreArtificial and biological cells work together as mini chemical factories
Researchers have fused living and non-living cells for the first time in a way that allows them to work together, paving the way for new applications.
Mar 13th, 2018
Read moreNew nanotechnology workplace design recommendations
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) launched four new products this week intended to provide options to companies for controlling possible exposure of their workers to nanomaterials on the job.
Mar 12th, 2018
Read moreHow to build a better railway - in (almost) every cell in your body
New work shows how a microscopic 'railway' system in our cells can optimise its structure to better suit bodies' needs.
Mar 12th, 2018
Read moreExtracellular vesicles could be personalized drug delivery vehicles
Creating enough nanovesicles to inexpensively serve as a drug delivery system may be as simple as putting the cells through a sieve, according to an international team of researchers who used mouse autologous immune cells to create large amounts of fillable nanovesicles to deliver drugs to tumors in mice.
Mar 12th, 2018
Read moreGlass matters
Researchers find that the chemical topology of silica can influence the effectiveness of many chemical processes that use it.
Mar 12th, 2018
Read moreA milestone in petahertz electronics
Observation of attosecond optical-field-enhanced carrier injection into the GaAs conduction band.
Mar 12th, 2018
Read moreStudy IDs 'white graphene' architecture with unprecedented hydrogen storage capacity
Engineers have zeroed in on the optimal architecture for storing hydrogen in 'white graphene' nanomaterials - a design like a Lilliputian skyscraper with 'floors' of boron nitride sitting one atop another and held precisely 5.2 angstroms apart by boron nitride pillars.
Mar 12th, 2018
Read morePolymer nanoparticle shows ability to locate and treat breast tumors
Researchers have developed a fluorescing nanoparticle capable of finding tumors, lighting up upon arrival and being activated with light to generate heat to destroy the cancer cells.
Mar 12th, 2018
Read moreMethod to grow large single-crystal graphene could advance scalable 2D materials
A new method to produce large, monolayer single-crystal-like graphene films more than a foot long relies on harnessing a 'survival of the fittest' competition among crystals.
Mar 12th, 2018
Read moreInsight into doping efficiency of organic semiconductors
A group of physicists was able to demonstrate in a study how the doping of organic semiconductors can be simulated and experimentally verified.
Mar 12th, 2018
Read moreNanometer-thin layer improves efficiency of OLEDs
Scientists have discovered a new method to improve contacts in OLEDs. This new approach leads to a higher energy efficiency and can be used in almost any organic semiconductor element.
Mar 12th, 2018
Read more3D-printing ink highly loaded with iron oxide nanoparticles
Researchers report the preparation and 3D printing of highly loaded iron oxide inks through the minimum use of a single additive that is specifically designed for iron oxide.
Mar 12th, 2018
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