In rechargeable batteries, ultra-thin material sheets are crucial. Reactions occur at the interfaces of these sheets. Scientists want to track these reactions. They need a way to probe buried interfaces with elemental specificity. In principle, so...
Jan 22, 2019
According to researchers from the Queen Mary University of London, the “wonder material” graphene shows extremely different properties in humid conditions. Discovered in 2004, graphene...
Jan 22, 2019
The potential of immunotherapy in the battle against cancer attracted international interest after two researchers received the coveted Nobel Prize for exposing the ability of the immune system to...
Jan 22, 2019
Whereas the evolutionary path of the atomic world has occurred over billions of years, the evolutionary path of the synthetic nanoparticle world has just begun. Man-made nanoparticle assemblies are beginning to revolutionize different fields inclu...
Jan 22, 2019
Graphene Flagship researchers reviewed the current research into the safety of graphene and related materials looking at both human health and environmental impact.
Jan 22, 2019
Scientists of the Far Eastern Federal University, together with Russian and foreign colleagues, developed samples of nickel mesoporous film structures, which have useful surface area up to 400 times greater than their solid one. Brand new material...
Jan 22, 2019
The Polymerisation Process research group of the POLYMAT institute of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has managed to efficiently encapsulate semiconductor nanocrystals or quantum dots of various sizes into polymer particles; great sta...
Jan 22, 2019
Scientists from the Eric Betzig lab at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Campus and the Ed Boyden Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) collaborated to develop an imaging technique, ExLLSM, that combines expansion microscopy (...
Jan 21, 2019
A team of Vanderbilt University bioengineers today announced a major breakthrough in penetrating the cells inside tumors and flipping on a switch that tells them to start fighting.
Jan 21, 2019
Immunotherapy's promise in the fight against cancer drew international attention after two scientists won a Nobel Prize this year for unleashing the ability of the immune system to eliminate tumor cells.
Jan 21, 2019
