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Ultra-thin camera lenses of the future could see the light of day

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In the future, camera lenses could be thousands of times thinner and significantly less resource-intensive to manufacture. Researchers now present a new technology for making the artificial materials known as metasurfaces, which consist of a multi...

Jun 11, 2020

Ultra-thin camera lenses of the future could see the light of day

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

In the future, camera lenses could be thousands of times thinner and significantly less resource-intensive to manufacture. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, now present a new technology for making the artificial materials...

Jun 11, 2020

Lightning in a (nano)bottle: new supercapacitor opens door to better wearable electronics

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from Skoltech, Aalto University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed a high-performance, low-cost, environmentally friendly, and stretchable supercapacitor that can potentially be used in wearable electronics

Jun 11, 2020

Using nanotheranostics approach to treat cancer

News Medical   -   Scientific News Websites

The concept of theranostics revolves around the stratification of patients into specific groups based on their response to different treatments and their disease risks.

Jun 10, 2020

Researchers light cells using nanosheets for cancer treatment

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University are developing new ways to advance the field of regenerative medicine and cancer treatment. They are developing a 2-D nanosheet that is 1,000 times smaller than...

Jun 10, 2020

Researchers mimic nature for fast, colorful 3D printing

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Brilliantly colored chameleons, butterflies, opals - and now some 3D-printed materials -- reflect color by using nanoscale structures called photonic crystals. A new study demonstrates how a modified 3D-printing process provides a versatile approa...

Jun 10, 2020

Intracellular biopsy technique for fast microRNAs profiling in living cells

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are gaining more attention in studies of human diseases such as cancer, because changes in miRNA expression are frequently associated with abnormal cellular functions. To achieve fast and highly sensitive profiling of miRNAs, a ...

Jun 10, 2020

Researchers mimic nature for fast, colorful 3-D printing

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Brilliantly colored chameleons, butterflies, opals—and now some 3-D-printed materials—reflect color by using nanoscale structures called photonic crystals.

Jun 10, 2020

Quantum computing: A key ally for meeting business objectives

MIT Technology Review   -   Scientific News Websites

In the business world, the opportunities for applying quantum technology relate to optimization: solving difficult business problems, reconfiguring complex processes, and understanding correlations between seemingly disparate data sets. The main p...

Jun 10, 2020

A simple way of describing friction - by making it complicated

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists have come up with an adjustment to the classical friction model that improves its ability to describe trends in how friction works for layered materials like graphene at the nanoscale.

Jun 10, 2020

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