Picosecond time-resolved photon antibunching measures nanoscale exciton motion and the true number of chromophores.
Feb 26, 2021
Liquid structures - liquid droplets that maintain a specific shape - are useful for a variety of applications, from food processing to cosmetics, medicine, and even petroleum extraction, but researchers have yet to tap into these exciting new mat...
Feb 26, 2021
Nanoengineers have discovered new fundamental insights for developing lithium metal batteries that perform well at ultra-low temperatures; mainly, that the weaker the electrolyte holds on to lithium ions, the better.
Feb 26, 2021
Scientists are investigating whether phase transitions of water in nanopores can be used to generate electrical energy on a larger scale.
Feb 26, 2021
Researchers tweaked the diet of silkworms by adding cellulose nanofiber to their food. The resultant silk was stronger and more durable. This new method of realizing cellulose nanofiber synthesized silk is a sustainable way to produce biomaterials.
Feb 26, 2021
Researchers developed a new technique to extend the efficiency of a pair of promising molecular tools, attached biological nanobodies to the DNA editing tool also known as CRISPR.
Feb 26, 2021
For practical applications, two-dimensional materials such as graphene must at some point connect with the ordinary world of 3D materials. MIT researchers have come up with a way of imaging what goes on at these interfaces, down to the level of in...
Feb 26, 2021
In "Structured light for ultrafast laser micro- and nanoprocessing" by Daniel Flamm et al., various concepts are presented for manipulating the spatial distribution of laser light at the focus in such a way that particularly efficient an...
Feb 26, 2021
Tohoku University researchers have produced cellulose nanofiber (CNF) synthesized silk naturally through a simple tweak to silkworms' diet. Mixing CNF with commercially available food and feeding the silkworms resulted in a stronger and more ...
Feb 26, 2021
Scientists are still a long way from being able to treat Alzheimer's Disease, in part because the protein aggregates that can become brain plaques, a hallmark of the disease, are hard to study.
Feb 26, 2021
