Compared with computers, the human brain is incredibly energy-efficient. Scientists are therefore drawing on how the brain and its interconnected neurons function for inspiration in designing innovative computing technologies. They foresee that th...
May 18, 2022
Magnetic nanostructures are potentially useful medical instruments. They can be directed by external magnetic fields within the body to release medications or kill tumor cells once they have been...
May 18, 2022
A potential new COVID-19 treatment tricks SARS-CoV-2 into binding to decoy cells that render the virus inactive The post Decoy nanoparticles soak up SARS-CoV-2 appeared first on Physics World.
May 18, 2022
Scientists at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a single-photon emitter capable of room temperature operation. The technology is based on quantum dots grown on cost-effective silicon substrates. Developing nonclassic...
May 18, 2022
Where there’s electricity, there’s usually heat – and that’s a major hurdle for shrinking electronic devices. Scientists have now found that nanowires made of a certain isotope of silicon can conduct heat 150 percent better than regular silicon, p...
May 18, 2022
Compact and lightweight metasurfaces—which use specifically designed and patterned nanostructures on a flat surface to focus, shape and control light—are a promising technology for wearable applications, especially virtual and augmented reality sy...
May 17, 2022
Nanopositioning specialist Queensgate and the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have forged a productive collaboration yielding a good-practice implementation model for Queensgate’s in-house test and measurement programme The post Innovatio...
May 17, 2022
Nanoengineered drugs that stop harmful bacteria and viruses could be on the horizon. With antibiotic-resistant infections on the rise and a continually morphing pandemic virus, it’s easy to see why researchers want to be able to design engineered ...
May 17, 2022
Carbon nanostructures seen in circumstellar envelopes surrounding carbon-rich stars could have a chemical origin with soot particles created during fuel combustion.
May 17, 2022
A new study by scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Theranautilus, an IISc-incubated firm, indicates that nano-sized robots operated with a magnetic field might help destroy...
May 17, 2022
