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Physicists unveil the condensation of liquid light in a semiconductor one-atom-thick

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An international team of physicists has shown experimentally for the first time how a Bose-Einstein condensate - tens of thousands of quanta of 'liquid light' - is formed in the thinnest monatomic film of a semiconductor crystal. The tea...

May 6, 2021

In graphene process, resistance is useful

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Rice scientists adapt laser-induced graphene to make conductive patterns from standard photoresist material for consumer electronics and other applications.

May 6, 2021

Protected by nanobrushes

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The ability of antibodies to recognize specific cancer cells is used in oncology to specifically target those cells with small active agents. Research published in the journal Angewandte Chemie shows that scientists have now built a transport syst...

May 6, 2021

Research breakthrough in the fight against cancer

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A team of researchers at the Center for Bioactive Delivery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Institute for Applied Life Sciences has engineered a nanoparticle that has the potential to revolutionize disease treatment, including for...

May 6, 2021

Smart magnetic soft materials to develop artificial muscles and therapeutic robots

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Developing a new generation of artificial muscles and soft nanorobots for drug delivery are some of the long-term goals of 4D-BIOMAP, an ERC research project being undertaken by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).This project develops cro...

May 6, 2021

Small apoptotic bodies: Nirvana, birth and death

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Scientists from Nanjing University and University of Macau have discovered nano-scaled apoptotic bodies (ABs) as a new brain-targeting drug carrier, bringing new promise for the Parkinson's Disease as well as other brain diseases.

May 6, 2021

Magnetic material breaks super-fast switching record

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Researchers at CRANN (The Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices), and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin, today announced that a magnetic material developed at the Centre demonstrates the fastest magnetic swit...

May 5, 2021

Like a Trojan horse, graphene oxide can act as a carrier of organic pollutants to fish

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Graphene is a two-dimensional nanomaterial composed of carbon and formed by a single layer of densely packed carbon atoms. The high mechanical strength and significant electrical and thermal properties of graphene mean that it is highly suited to ...

May 5, 2021

Superconductivity, high critical temperature found in 2D semimetal tungsten nitride

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Superconductivity in two-dimensional (2D) systems has attracted much attention in recent years, both because of its relevance to our understanding of fundamental physics and because of potential technological applications in nanoscale devices such...

May 5, 2021

An uncrackable combination of invisible ink and artificial intelligence

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Coded messages in invisible ink sound like something only found in espionage books, but in real life, they can have important security purposes. Yet, they can be cracked if their encryption is predictable. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied...

May 5, 2021

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