Robust tools have been designed by researchers at EPFL to unravel the diversity of amyloid fibrils that are linked to Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. Image Credit:...
Mar 13, 2020
The National Science Foundation has named Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute physicist Esther Wertz the winner of its CAREER award to support her investigation of nanometer-scale metal structures that will control light at the quantum limit. “I’m ...
Mar 13, 2020
A research team has found that nanoscale particles of the most commonly used plastics tend to move through the water supply, especially in fresh water, or settle out in wastewater treatment plants, where they end up as sludge, in landfills, and of...
Mar 13, 2020
A Washington State University research team has found that nanoscale particles of the most commonly used plastics tend to move through the water supply, especially in fresh water, or settle out in wastewater treatment plants, where they end up as ...
Mar 13, 2020
Removing antibiotic-resistant bacteria from wastewater is not enough to eliminate the risks posed by these organisms to society. These bacteria leave behind bits that had to be destroyed as well. A...
Mar 13, 2020
Silicon photonics are known as a key technology for modern optical communications at the near infrared wavelength-band, i.e., 1.31/1.55 μm. Currently silicon photonics researchers have attempted to extend the technology to the wavelength-band beyo...
Mar 13, 2020
A team at Duke University is studying butterflies with wings that are 10 to 100 times darker than everyday black objects. As little as 0.06% of the light that hits the ultrablack butterfly wings is reflected back to the eye. This percentage is c...
Mar 13, 2020
One of the characteristics of Alzheimer's disease is the presence of knot-like structures between brain cells. These are called "amyloid fibrils" and are formed by the notorious amyloid beta peptide a...
Mar 13, 2020
A novel technology, capable of analyzing nanomaterials in our daily lives with the use of common 'salt' has been developed. This allows various molecules to amplify—up to hundreds of times—the signals they produce in response to light, t...
Mar 13, 2020
Ten years after producing the first sample of the now widely studied family of nanomaterials, called MXenes, researchers have discovered a different way to make the atom-thin material that presents a number of new opportunities for using it. The n...
Mar 13, 2020
