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Self-assembling intestinal film blocks glucose uptake to treat diabetes

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

Maintaining healthy levels of glucose in the blood is a critical but often painstaking task for diabetics, involving regular insulin injections and fingerprick blood tests to ensure everything is kept in check. A new synthetic film developed at MI...

Aug 27, 2020

Fabrication of a single-crystal giant magnetoresistive device on a polycrystalline film

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Technique may promote practical use of high-performance magnetoresistive devices comprising half-metallic heusler alloys.

Aug 27, 2020

Fabrication of a single-crystal giant magnetoresistive device on a polycrystalline film

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

NIMS and AIST have jointly succeeded in fabricating a giant magnetoresistive (GMR) device comprising single-crystal Heusler alloys on an practical silicon substrate. The team demonstrated for the first time that a single-crystal magnetoresistive d...

Aug 27, 2020

An improved wearable, stretchable gas sensor using nanocomposites

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A stretchable, wearable gas sensor for environmental sensing has been developed and tested by researchers at Penn State, Northeastern University and five universities in China.

Aug 27, 2020

FEFU scientists are paving way for future tiny electronics and gadgets

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Scientists of the School of Natural Sciences of Far Eastern Federal University (SNS FEFU) with colleagues from Russia, South Korea, and Australia suggest the breaking new ground approach to manage spin-electronic properties and functionality of th...

Aug 27, 2020

Molecular dispersion enhances quasi-bilayer organic solar cells

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Based on a polymeric donor PBDBT-2F and a nonfullerene (NF) acceptor Y6, researchers proposed a strategy to improve the properties of photovoltaic performances in PHJ-based OSCs through dilute dispersions of the PBDBT-2F donor into the acceptor-do...

Aug 27, 2020

Topological superconducting phase protected by 1D local magnetic symmetries

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Scientists from China and USA classified 1D gapped topological superconducting quantum wires with local magnetic symmetries (LMSs), in which the time-reversal symmetry is broken but its combinations with certain crystalline symmetries, such as MxT...

Aug 27, 2020

Round nanoparticles improve quality factors of surface lattice resonances: Study

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A research group led by Dr. LI Guangyuan from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found that nanohemisphere arrays can significantly improve the quality factors of surface lattice resonances.

Aug 27, 2020

Optical imaging enters sub-nanometer era

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Researchers improved the spatial resolution from 8 nm to ~8 Å of photoluminescence imaging. It realized sub-molecular resolution with single molecule photofluorescence imaging for the first time.

Aug 27, 2020

Germany calls for REACH nano registrations discussion platform

Chemical Watch   -   Scientific News Websites

Lack of transparency seen as an obstacle to compliance

Aug 26, 2020

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