Researchers at Delft University of Technology, led by assistant professor Richard Norte, have unveiled a remarkable new material with potential to impact the world of material science: amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC). Beyond its exceptional stre...
Nov 4, 2023
mRNA-based vaccines and gene/cell therapeutics open up new possibilities for medical practitioners in the fight against cancer and infectious or hereditary diseases. However, manufacturing these innovative pharmaceuticals is an expensive and time-...
Nov 4, 2023
Researchers have used the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center inside a single nanodiamond for quantum sensing to overcome the problem of random particle rotation. Their study is published in Nature Communications.
Nov 3, 2023
The fact that nanoparticle and polymer hybrid materials can often combine the advantages of each has been demonstrated in several fields. Embedding PNCs into polymer is an effective strategy to enhance the PNCs stability and polymer can endow the ...
Nov 3, 2023
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a powerful fingerprint analysis and detection technique that plays an important role in the fields of food safety, environmental protection, bio-imaging and hazardous substance identification. Electromag...
Nov 3, 2023
Taking advantage of DNA’s ability to store information, researchers have over the past decade been working on data storage systems and digital logic circuits built on the biological molecule. DNA’s complex physical structure has also led to the ex...
Nov 3, 2023
Nanoengineers have created a quasicrystal—a scientifically intriguing and technologically promising material structure—from nanoparticles using DNA, the molecule that encodes life.
Nov 3, 2023
Rresearchers report a new liquid templating strategy for engineering highly tunable, durable aerogels. The customizable gels showed improved emi shielding and record oil absorption.
Nov 3, 2023
To build highly performing quantum computers, researchers should be able to reliably derive information about the noise inside them, while also identifying effective strategies to suppress this noise. In recent years, significant progress has been...
Nov 3, 2023
Raman spectroscopy enhanced by graphene substrates can detect molecules with extremely high sensitivity. New research demonstrates active control of graphene's band structure to optimize chemical enhancement and versatility across diverse ana...
Nov 3, 2023
