The properties of carbon-based nanomaterials can be altered and engineered through the deliberate introduction of certain structural "imperfections". The challenge, however, is to control the number and type of these defects. Chemists an...
Apr 9, 2021
In a new discovery regarding graphene, two research teams independently discovered a particular graphene system whose electrons "freeze" as temperature rises.
Apr 8, 2021
This podcast features a neuromedicine specialist and the author of a book on the physics of sight and sound The post Graphene gives neural interfaces a boost, the amazing physics of hearing and vision appeared first on Physics World.
Apr 8, 2021
Using DNA structures as scaffolds, Tim Liedl, a scientist of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, has shown that precisely positioned gold nanoparticles can serve as efficient energy transmitters.
Apr 8, 2021
In a new study, a team of researchers demonstrates that graphene's nonlinearity can be very efficiently controlled by applying comparatively modest electrical voltages to the material.
Apr 8, 2021
Researchers prepared a nanomicelle delivery system to transport BDNF mRNA to the site of ischemic injury. The nanomicelle successfully produced BDNF and prevented the death of neurons when dosed 2 days after ischemia in rats. Long-term experiments...
Apr 8, 2021
Using DNA structures as scaffolds, scientists hae shown that precisely positioned gold nanoparticles can serve as efficient energy transmitters.
Apr 8, 2021
Most materials go from being solids to liquids when they are heated. One rare counter-example is helium-3, which can solidify upon heating. This counterintuitive and exotic effect, known as the...
Apr 8, 2021
It may be possible in the future to use information technology where electron spin is used to store, process and transfer information in quantum computers. It has long been the goal of scientists to be able to use spin-based quantum information te...
Apr 8, 2021
A research team has created and observed quasiparticles called 3D hopfions at the nanoscale (billionths of a meter) in a magnetic system. The discovery could advance high-density, high-speed, low-power, yet ultrastable magnetic memory 'spintr...
Apr 8, 2021
