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Controlling ultrastrong light-matter coupling at room temperature

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Physicists have managed to achieve ultrastrong coupling between light and matter at room temperature. The discovery is of importance for fundamental research and might pave the way for advances within, for example, light sources, nanomachinery, an...

Sep 23, 2020

Controlling ultrastrong light-matter coupling at room temperature

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Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, together with colleagues in Russia and Poland, have managed to achieve ultrastrong coupling between light and matter at room temperature. The discovery is of importance for fundamental res...

Sep 23, 2020

New brain cell-like nanodevices work together to identify mutations in viruses

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In the September issue of the journal Nature, scientists from Texas A&M University, Hewlett Packard Labs and Stanford University have described a new nanodevice that acts almost identically to a brain cell. Furthermore, they have shown tha...

Sep 23, 2020

Tandon Researchers develop method to create colloidal diamonds

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The colloidal diamond could make light waves as useful as electrons in computing, and hold promise for a host of other applications. Researchers let by NYU Tandon Professor David Pine have devised a new process for the reliable self-assembly of co...

Sep 23, 2020

A multishot lensless camera in development could aid disease diagnosis

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A new type of imaging that does not require a lens and uses reconfigurable particle-based masks to take multiple shots of an object is being developed by researchers at Penn State. The electric-field directed self-assembling mask technology is exp...

Sep 23, 2020

New materials: A toggle switch for catalysis

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A special material made of lanthanum, strontium, iron and oxygen can be switched back and forth between two different states: In one state the material is catalytically extremely active, in the other less so. The reason for this is the behavior of...

Sep 23, 2020

Bristol scientists shine light on tiny crystals behind unexpected violent eruptions

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In a new study of volcanic processes, Bristol scientists have demonstrated the role nanolites play in the creation of violent eruptions at otherwise 'calm' and predictable volcanoes.The study, published in Science Advances, describes how...

Sep 23, 2020

NTU Singapore scientists devise 'Trojan horse' approach to kill cancer cells without using drugs

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Cancer cells are killed in lab experiments and tumour growth reduced in mice, using a new approach that turns a nanoparticle into a 'Trojan horse' that causes cancer cells to self-destruct, a research team at the Nanyang Technological Un...

Sep 23, 2020

New 3-D printing method could jump-start creation of tiny medical devices for the body

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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method of 3-D-printing gels and other soft materials. Published in a new paper, it has the potential to create complex structures with nanometer-scale pr...

Sep 22, 2020

Parylene photonics enable future optical biointerfaces

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Carnegie Mellon University's Maysam Chamanzar and his team have invented an optical platform that will likely become the new standard in optical biointerfaces. He's labeled this new field of optical technology "Parylene photonics,&q...

Sep 22, 2020

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