Japanese giant Daikin Industries has become a shareholder of the world’s largest producer of graphene nanotubes, OCSiAl, following three years of collaboration in developing graphene nanotube applications as a next-generation additive. Together, t...
Jul 28, 2021
Women have several choices for long-lasting, reversible contraceptives, but most options for men are either single-use, such as condoms, or difficult to reverse, like vasectomies. Now, in a step toward a safe, long-lasting and reversible male cont...
Jul 28, 2021
Army-funded researchers created a nanoarchitected material that can withstand supersonic microparticle impacts. This could potentially create ultralight body armor for soldiers.
Jul 28, 2021
Using a focused laser beam, scientists can manipulate properties of nanomaterials, thus 'writing' information onto monolayer materials. By this means, the thinnest light disk at atomic level was demonstrated.
Jul 28, 2021
A near-field infrared (IR) nanoscope and spectroscope, custom built by a research team at MIT, can quickly and economically probe the characteristics of diverse materials at the nanoscale. Also known as a scattering-type scanning near-field optica...
Jul 28, 2021
In nature, the interaction of molecules at the boundary of different liquids can give rise to new structures. These self-assembling molecules make cell formation possible and are instrumental to the development of all life on Earth. They can also ...
Jul 27, 2021
Researchers have demonstrated a low-cost technique for retrieving nanowires from electronic devices that have reached the end of their utility and then using those nanowires in new devices. The work is a step toward more sustainable electronics.
Jul 27, 2021
Based on the principle of interaction between matter and light, a new method has been developed to track and observe the Brownian motion of fast-moving nanometer-sized molecules, and measure the different fluorescence signals of each biological na...
Jul 27, 2021
Researchers successfully analyze extracellular vesicles by time-sequential illumination and tracking.
Jul 27, 2021
PsiQuantum has raised $450 million in Series D funding to build the world’s first commercially viable quantum computer, the company said.
Jul 27, 2021
