New work could help in the development of protein engineering technologies and in the design of protein-based nanodevices The post Quantum approach reveals faster protein folding appeared first on Physics World.
Aug 8, 2019
A soft robot with both color-changing and locomotion capabilities has been developed by a research team led by professor Xuemin Du from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Inspired by the color-changing cap...
Aug 8, 2019
A soft robot with both color-changing and locomotion capabilities has been developed by a research team led by professor Xuemin Du from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Inspired by the color-changing cap...
Aug 8, 2019
The age-old fact that gold can be utilized to do things was something that philosophers had never dreamed of. Now, the existence of “gold glue”—bonds involving gold atoms that can...
Aug 8, 2019
Spin-torque oscillators (STOs) are nanoscale devices that use variations in magnetic field direction to produce microwaves. However, the microwaves generated by any individual device are extremely...
Aug 8, 2019
Thin films made of carbon nanotubes hold a lot of promise for advanced optoelectronics, energy and medicine, however with their manufacturing process subject to close supervision and stringent standardization requirements, they are unlikely to bec...
Aug 8, 2019
A research team has created a fluorescent marker molecule that does not degrade under a STED microscope: the photobleaching problem has been solved. Images of living cells can now be captured over relatively long periods by an optical microscope w...
Aug 8, 2019
During water desalination, membrane distillation (MD) is challenged by the inefficiency of water thermal separation from dissolved solutes, due to its dependence on membrane porosity and thermal conductivity. For instance, existing petroleum-deriv...
Aug 8, 2019
A team of scientists propose a neural-network-based method for monitoring the growth of carbon nanotubes, preparing the ground for a new generation of sophisticated electronic devices.
Aug 8, 2019
Scientists at the University of Leeds have created a new form of gold which is just two atoms thick - the thinnest unsupported gold ever created. The researchers measured the thickness of the gold to be 0.47 nanometres - that is one million times...
Aug 8, 2019
