It was reported that China aims to accelerate the industrialization of materials like graphene and liquid metals, and so the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission jointly r...
Aug 30, 2023
Fe–S clusters, which are a part of Fe–S proteins, are found across all forms of life. They play a significant role as biological cofactors—helper molecules that assist these proteins in different biochemical transformations—that are involved in re...
Aug 29, 2023
A University of Massachusetts Amherst biomedical engineer has used a nanogel-based carrier designed in his lab to deliver a drug exclusively to the liver of obese mice, effectively reversing their diet-induced disease.
Aug 29, 2023
Quantum computing is on the verge of catapulting the digital revolution to new heights.
Aug 29, 2023
There’s a race on to update the cybersecurity infrastructure before quantum computers become capable of cracking the current standards. Now Google has developed a quantum-resilient way of implementing the FIDO2 security key standard, an increasing...
Aug 29, 2023
It has long been known that graphene has excellent electronic properties. However, it was unclear until now how stable these properties are. Are they destroyed by disturbances and additional effects, which are unavoidable in practice, or do they r...
Aug 29, 2023
Researchers at the Dalian University of Technology have constructed a design of copper nanowire assemblies that can considerably improve the defrosting and de-icing efficiency with no predictable energy input. Specifically, the defrosting efficien...
Aug 29, 2023
A team of researchers developed a reliable, high-performance graphene-based sensor which can detect the presence of toxins in water at low levels in just a small amount of time. Learn more about it in this article.
Aug 29, 2023
Nothing in the world is perfect. This is also true in materials research. In computer simulations, one often represents a system in a highly idealized way; for example, one calculates the properties that an absolutely perfect crystal would have. I...
Aug 29, 2023
Multiphoton lithography (MPL) is a technique that uses ultra-short laser pulses to create complex three-dimensional (3D) structures at the micro- and nanoscale. It is based on the principle of multiphoton absorption (MPA), which occurs when two or...
Aug 29, 2023