Making detailed 3D images of proteins in living cells with a special light microscope, without damaging those cells. That is what Sjoerd Stallinga, winner of an ERC Advanced grant worth 2.3 million euros, wants to achieve. In order to do so he is ...
Apr 26, 2022
A team of researchers working at China's Fourth Hospital of Harbin Medical University has developed a new kind of male contraceptive that is easily reversed. In their paper published in the journal ACS Nano, the group describes their approach...
Apr 26, 2022
Diamond is more than a lovely gem, and physicists like it because of its flaws. One of the most promising quantum materials is diamond nanocrystals, specifically, nanodiamonds with point defects such...
Apr 26, 2022
Last year, an APTES monolayer covering self-assembled magnetic nanospheres for controlled drug delivery of the anticancer drug, Nintedanib, was downloaded 4,458 times, according to a joint research study from Chemnitz University of Technology and ...
Apr 26, 2022
Research at Lund University in Sweden has found a new way to create nano-sized magnetic particles using ultrafast laser light pulses. The discovery could pave the way for new and more energy-efficient technical components and become useful in the ...
Apr 26, 2022
Physicists at the University of Würzburg have used light to propel micrometer-size objects in an aqueous environment and control them precisely on a surface with all three degrees of freedom — two translational degrees and a rotational degree. The...
Apr 26, 2022
Most automakers are dying to sell you—and the world—an electric car. But they’re up against the challenge of our global-warming time: dauntingly tight supplies of both batteries and the ethically sourced raw materials required to make them. Tesla ...
Apr 25, 2022
“Hyperuniform disordered” design delivers 66.5% solar absorption The post Honeycomb-like nanopatterning boosts efficiency of ultrathin solar panels appeared first on Physics World.
Apr 25, 2022
Due to its remarkable mechanical and physical properties, cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) have gained prominence in a variety of sectors in recent years. A study published in the journal Materials Today: Proceedings provides a comprehensive bibliometr...
Apr 25, 2022
A study published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials reports a scalable platform developed by a combination of microtomy and vapor-liquid-solid growth of III/V nanowires (NWs).
Apr 25, 2022
