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Center for Nanoscale Science Renews NSF Support for Six Years

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

The Center for Nanoscale Science, a National Science Foundation Materials Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), has again successfully renewed its NSF support in the highly competitive MRSEC program. The new iteration of the center encompasses t...

Sep 22, 2020

Hyperbolic metamaterials exhibit physics with two spatial and two temporal dimensions

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Metamaterials—nanoengineered structures designed for precise control and manipulation of electromagnetic waves—have enabled such innovations as invisibility cloaks and super-resolution microscopes. Using transformation optics, these novel devices ...

Sep 22, 2020

Nano-microscope gives first direct observation of the magnetic properties of 2D materials

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Australian researchers and their colleagues from Russia and China have shown that it is possible to study the magnetic properties of ultrathin materials directly, via a new microscopy technique that opens the door to the discovery of more two-dim...

Sep 22, 2020

Skeleton and KIT promise graphene SuperBattery with 15-second charging

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

Estonia's Skeleton Technologies and Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have partnered up to complete development on what they're calling the SuperBattery for EVs – "a groundbreaking graphene battery with a 15-second ch...

Sep 22, 2020

Nanoparticle SARS-CoV-2 model could potentially speed the search for drugs

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of scientists from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., has developed a new tool that mimics how SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- infects a cell, informat...

Sep 22, 2020

Parylene photonics enable future optical biointerfaces

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

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,&#...

Sep 22, 2020

NIST scientists get soft on 3D printing

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

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

Sep 22, 2020

A fresh sense of possibility

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A multisensory graphene-based skin can sense in extreme environments where other sensors cannot be used.

Sep 22, 2020

Nanoparticle SARS-CoV-2 model may speed drug discovery for COVID-19

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Scientists have developed a new tool that mimics how the virus that causes COVID-19 infects a cell, potentially speeding the search for treatments against the disease. The tool is a fluorescent nanoparticle probe that uses the spike protein on the...

Sep 21, 2020

NASA IRIS Reports the First Ever Clear Images of Nanojets on the Sun

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

NASA’s IRIS Spots Nanojets: Shining Light On Heating the Solar Corona In a paper published today (September 21, 2020) in Nature Astronomy, researchers report the... The post NASA IRIS Reports the First Ever Clear Images of Nanojets on the Sun app...

Sep 21, 2020

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