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Scientists Use Nanoparticles as Heaters to Control Electrical Activity of Neurons

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Nanomaterials have been used in a variety of emerging applications, such as in targeted pharmaceuticals or to bolster other materials and products such as sensors and energy harvesting and storage devices. A team in the McKelvey School of Engineer...

Jul 22, 2021

Llama 'nanobodies' could hold key to preventing deadly post-transplant infection

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Scientists have developed a "nanobody"—a small fragment of a llama antibody—that is capable of chasing out human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) as it hides away from the immune system. This then enables immune cells to seek out and destroy this ...

Jul 22, 2021

Researchers Use Nanofibers to Develop Small, Real-Time Bad-Breath Analyzer

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No one wants bad breath -- not when visiting friends and family, at a job interview, and especially not on a first date. Smelly breath can make things awkward, but it also is a natural warning sign, indicating that serious dental issues are occurr...

Jul 22, 2021

Nanostructures Enable Record-Breaking Conversion of Laser Pulses into High-Harmonic Generation

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Cornell researchers have developed nanostructures that enable record-breaking conversion of laser pulses into high-harmonic generation, paving the way for new scientific tools for high-resolution imaging and studying physical processes that occur ...

Jul 22, 2021

Nanoparticles Used as Heaters to Manipulate Neuron's Electrical Activity

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Researchers are presently using nanoparticles as heaters, to control the neurons' electrical activity in the brain, and of cardiomyocytes in the heart.

Jul 22, 2021

New quantum research gives insights into how quantum light can be mastered

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A team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory propose that modulated quantum metasurfaces can control all properties of photonic qubits, a breakthrough that could impact the fields of quantum information, communications, sensing and imagi...

Jul 22, 2021

'Magic-Angle' Graphene Discovered to Have a Very Rare Form of Superconductivity

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Geometry is everything.

Jul 22, 2021

Researchers use nanoparticles as heaters to manipulate the electrical activity of neurons

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Nanomaterials have been used in a variety of emerging applications, such as in targeted pharmaceuticals or to bolster other materials and products such as sensors and energy harvesting and storage devices.

Jul 22, 2021

MIT Physicists Discover “Magic-Angle” Trilayer Graphene May Be a Rare, Magnet-Proof Superconductor

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New findings might help inform the design of more powerful MRI machines or robust quantum computers. MIT physicists have observed signs of a rare type... The post MIT Physicists Discover “Magic-Angle” Trilayer Graphene May Be a Rare, Magnet-Proof...

Jul 22, 2021

'Wrapping' anodes in 3D carbon nanosheets: The next big thing in li-ion battery technology

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The lithium-ion battery is the future of sustainable energy technology, but drastic volume fluctuations in their anodes related to enhanced battery capacity raises a safety concern. Recently, researchers from the Republic of Korea have found that ...

Jul 22, 2021

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