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Ultrasound Waves Create Never-Repeating Pattern in Carbon

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Using soundwaves, a team of University of Utah engineers and mathematicians demonstrated how to arrange carbon nanoparticles in water in a never-repeating pattern.

Apr 15, 2021

Science | AAAS

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Approaches include tailored nanoparticles, chimeric proteins, virus cocktails

Apr 15, 2021

Oxygen migration enables ferroelectricity on nanoscale

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Hafnium-based thin films, with a thickness of only a few nanometres, show an unconventional form of ferroelectricity. This allows the construction of nanometre-sized memories or logic devices. However, it was not clear how ferroelectricity could o...

Apr 15, 2021

Nanothin Layer on Wound Dressings Kills 99% of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

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Researchers have created a nanothin layer on wound dressings and implants made of black phosphorous, which they found to be effective in killing 99% of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Apr 14, 2021

Self-assembling nanofibers prevent damage from inflammation: Nanomaterials strategically activate the immune system to fight inflammation as effectively as current standard therapeutics

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Biomedical engineers have developed a self-assembling nanomaterial that can help limit damage caused by inflammatory diseases by activating key cells in the immune system. In mouse models of psoriasis, the team showed that their nanofiber-based dr...

Apr 14, 2021

Lipid research may help solve COVID-19 vaccine challenges

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New research could help solve a major challenge in the deployment of certain COVID-19 vaccines worldwide -- the need for the vaccines to be kept at below-freezing temperatures during transport and storage. Researchers demonstrate a new, inexpensiv...

Apr 14, 2021

China's Most Popular EV is No Longer a Tesla

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Tesla sales in China more than doubled in 2020, to nearly $6.6 billion, accounting for 21 percent of the company’s booming worldwide total. But Tesla no longer makes China’s most popular electric car: Meet the tiny Wuling Hong Guang Mini EV, whos...

Apr 14, 2021

Quantum computers are revealing an unexpected new theory of reality

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A powerful new idea about how the laws of physics work could bring breakthroughs on everything from quantum gravity to consciousness, says researcher Chiara Marletto

Apr 14, 2021

Majorana-based quantum computation gets a handy new platform – Physics World

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Thin films of iron-based superconductors offer a simpler setting for elusive quasiparticles The post Majorana-based quantum computation gets a handy new platform appeared first on Physics World.

Apr 14, 2021

Finally, 3D-printed graphene aerogels for water treatment

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Graphene excels at removing contaminants from water, but it's not yet a commercially viable use of the wonder material.

Apr 14, 2021

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