A new technique lets researchers make thousands of nanowires, capable of recording intracellular signals, at the same time.
Jul 1, 2019
Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Valiev Institute of Physics and Technology have demonstrated resonant absorption of terahertz radiation in commercially available graphene. This is an important ste...
Jul 1, 2019
The use of nanoparticles in medicine has progressively increased in the last two decades. However, their safety and impact on the human immune system is still a significant concern. By testing...
Jul 1, 2019
Not only are greasy fingerprints on shiny stainless steel surfaces unattractive, they also attack the surface. A new nanocoating being developed by Fraunhofer researchers will in the future prevent the annoying smudges that result from fingers tou...
Jul 1, 2019
Biophotovoltaics and microbial fuel cells signify promising technologies for green bioelectricity generation. However, these devices experience low efficiency and durability that arise from their...
Jul 1, 2019
A plasma tears through the water within a few nanoseconds. It may possibly regenerate catalytic surfaces at the push of a button. Electrochemical cells help recycle CO2. However, the catalytic surfaces get worn down in the process. Researchers at...
Jul 1, 2019
A new form of electron microscopy allows researchers to examine nanoscale tubular materials while they are "alive" and forming liquids -- a first in the field. Developed by a multidisciplinary team at Northwestern University and the Uni...
Jul 1, 2019
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have grown atomically thin crystalline layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) with varying composition over space, continuously feeding in different types of TMDC to a growth chamber to ta...
Jul 1, 2019
A drug with three active ingredients that are released in sequence at specific times is under development by a team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). What was once a pharmacologist's dream is now much closer to reality. With a comb...
Jul 1, 2019
Iowa State's Jigang Wang and a team of collaborators have discovered that terahertz light -- light at trillions of cycles per second -- can act as a control knob to accelerate supercurrents. That can help open up the quantum world of matter a...
Jul 1, 2019
