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Nanoscribe Opens US Subsidiary in Boston

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanoscribe GmbH, a manufacturer of 3D printers for microfabrication, is expanding into the U.S. with a new facility in Boston from which the company will offer sales and service as part of its internationalization strategy. CEO Martin Hermatschw...

Jul 31, 2019

How to turn every piece of clothing into an e-textile

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have fabricated textiles that can protect you from rain, stains, and bacteria, while they harvest the biomechanical energy of the user to power textile-based electronics. These omniphobic triboelectric nanogenerators can be incorporate...

Jul 31, 2019

Experiments explore the mysteries of 'magic' angle superconductors

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Physicists conducted experiments to explore superconductivity in a groundbreaking new material known as magic-angle twisted graphene. The team imaged electrons on the material's surface and found that electrons interact with each other in way...

Jul 31, 2019

Researchers develop a unique method of fabricating 3-D porous structures

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Materials with controlled porosity have found diverse applications in separation, catalysis, energy storage, sensors and actuators, tissue engineering and drug delivery. Multiple methods have been developed to fabricate well-defined porous materia...

Jul 31, 2019

Quantum computers to clarify the connection between the quantum and classical worlds

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

A new algorithm will allow quantum computers to investigate how the classical world we experience emerges from the quantum world, and test other foundational issues in quantum mechanics.

Jul 31, 2019

Actively swimming gold nanoparticles: Chemotactic movement on the macroscale by a swarm of bacteria-mimicking nanoswimmers

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Bacteria can actively move towards a nutrient source -- a phenomenon known as chemotaxis -- and they can move collectively in a process known as swarming. Scientists have redesigned collective chemotaxis by creating artificial model nanoswimmers f...

Jul 31, 2019

Actively swimming gold nanoparticles

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Bacteria can actively move towards a nutrient source—a phenomenon known as chemotaxis—and they can move collectively in a process known as swarming. Chinese scientists have redesigned collective chemotaxis by creating artificial model nanoswimmers...

Jul 31, 2019

Quantum computers to clarify the connection between the quantum and classical worlds

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a new quantum computing algorithm that offers a clearer understanding of the quantum-to-classical transition, which could help model systems on the cusp of quantum and classical worlds, such...

Jul 31, 2019

Nanotechnology Helps Repair Defective Brain Circuits in Mice

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

According to a new study, a protein pumped out of certain—but not all—populations of “helper” cells in the brain, known as astrocytes, play a definite role in controlling the...

Jul 31, 2019

Scientists Develop Effortless Way of Producing Multifunctional Metalenses

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Ultrathin nanostructured films with the ability to control the propagation of light offer a means to incorporate optical components into portable and wearable electronics. Scientists from KAUST...

Jul 31, 2019

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