From plastics to clothes to DNA, polymers are everywhere. Polymers are highly versatile materials that are made of long chains of repeating units called monomers. Polymers containing metal complexes on their side chains have enormous potential as ...
Jun 14, 2022
Advances in nanotechnology have made it possible to fabricate structures out of DNA for use in biomedical applications like delivering drugs or creating vaccines, but new research in mice investigates the safety of the technology.
Jun 14, 2022
A team of physicists from CNR-Nanotec in Lecce, Università di Pavia, Princeton University and Université de Lyon has demonstrated Bose-Einstein condensation using a planar waveguide where semiconductor quantum wells were strongly coupled to a boun...
Jun 14, 2022
Chitin is a renewable biopolymer that is abundantly available in nature. Despite its importance as a basic building block in various biological materials, its surface crystalline structure remains unexplored.
Jun 14, 2022
OCSiAl is launching a graphene nanotube synthesis facility near Belgrade, Serbia, in the first half of 2023. The synthesis facility to become the core of the graphene nanotube industrial hub and will be accompanied by production lines of nanotube ...
Jun 14, 2022
A research team led by Profs. Xu An and Liu Yun from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has demonstrated the effective, specific and safe detoxification effect and its related mechanism of zin...
Jun 14, 2022
Scientists have recently designed an artificial flexible sensory nerve capable of neural coding, tactile sensing, and performing synaptic processing functions. Interestingly, this device does not depend on algorithms or computing resources. The st...
Jun 14, 2022
Atomically thin semiconductors such as molybdenum disulfide and tungsten disulfide are promising materials for nanoscale photonic devices. These approximately 2D semiconductors support so-called excitons, which are bound electron-hole pairs, that ...
Jun 14, 2022
In a breakthrough, Tokyo Tech researchers have managed to observe and characterize dynamic assembly of metallic atoms using an ingenious combination of scanning transmission electron microscopy and a video-based tracking. By visualizing short-live...
Jun 14, 2022
In an article published in the journal Biomedical Materials, researchers set out to produce environmentally friendly, high-performance electrospun nanofibers from poly(epsilon-caprolactone) (PCL), chitosan (CS), and κ-carrageenan (κ-C) using marin...
Jun 14, 2022
