The reproductive cycle of viruses requires self-assembly, maturation of virus particles and, after infection, the release of genetic material into a host cell. New physics-based technologies allow scientists to study the dynamics of this cycle and...
Jan 14, 2021
Chemists have developed a nanomaterial that they can trigger to shape shift -- from flat sheets to tubes and back to sheets again -- in a controllable fashion. The Journal of the American Chemical Soc...
Jan 14, 2021
By combining large amounts of low-fidelity data with smaller quantities of high-fidelity data, nanoengineers have developed a new machine learning method to predict the properties of materials with more accuracy than existing models. Crucially, th...
Jan 14, 2021
Researchers from CalTech have developed a standalone low-cost COVID-19 test that can deliver results in 10 minutes, at home, even for people showing no symptoms.
Jan 14, 2021
Scientists show that the effectiveness of hydrogen-producing metal catalysts protected by graphene depends on the ability of protons to penetrate into the inner metallic surface. This work may lead to widely available hydrogen-powered cars.
Jan 14, 2021
Scientists show that using a layer of graphene just one atom thick improves the catalytic activity of nickel or copper when generating hydrogen gas, which may lead to cheaper fuel for zero-emission automobiles.
Jan 14, 2021
Researchers report a new class of red-emitting biodegradable upconversion nanocrystals.
Jan 14, 2021
A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has discovered a groundbreaking one-step process for creating
Jan 14, 2021
Physicists have discovered how to locally add electrical charge to an atomically thin graphene device by layering flakes of another thin material on top of it.
Jan 14, 2021
Since the earliest microscopes, scientists have been on a quest to build instruments with finer and finer resolution to image a cell's proteins - the tiny machines that keep cells, and us, running.
Jan 14, 2021
