Researchers have developed technology to tap into infrared light for solar energy conversion and increase solar cell efficiency by 10 percent or more.
Oct 30, 2019
Syringe-injectable biomaterials, medical devices and engineered tissues have attracted great attention as minimally-invasive implants for diagnosis, therapy and regenerative medicine.
Oct 30, 2019
The ultrathin films are able to be injected using minimally-invasive syringe needles and can be used as a platform to deliver molecular and cellular drugs. The use of shape-memory polymer also enables unprecedented temperature-dependent control to...
Oct 30, 2019
Nanocontainer for drugs can have their pitfalls: If they are too heavily loaded, they will only dissolve poorly.
Oct 30, 2019
Scientists want to understand in as much detail as possible how the container molecules and the active substances arrange and what properties result from this.
Oct 30, 2019
Nanocapsules and other containers can transport drugs through a patient's body directly to the origin of the disease and release them there in a controlled manner. Such sophisticated systems are occasionally used in cancer therapy. Because th...
Oct 30, 2019
Metasurfaces are optically thin metamaterials that can control the wavefront of light completely, although they are primarily used to control the phase of light. In a new report, Adam C. Overvig and colleagues in the departments of Applied Physics...
Oct 30, 2019
Physicists at the University of Würzburg have made a ground-breaking discovery: They have realized a fundamental nanoelectronic device based on the topological insulator HgTe previously discovered in Würzburg. Topological insulators are material...
Oct 30, 2019
Developed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, robots can self-assemble to form various structures with applications including disaster relief. Swarms of simple, interacting... The post Swarms of Self-Transforming Robo...
Oct 30, 2019
Developed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, robots can self-assemble to form various structures with applications including disaster relief.
Oct 30, 2019
