Delivering an effective therapeutic payload to specific target cells with few adverse effects is considered by many to
Nov 7, 2018
Scientists have developed a noninvasive way of delivering drugs to within a few millimeters of a desired point in the brain. The method, tested in rats, uses focused ultrasound to jiggle drug molecules loose from nanoparticle 'cages' tha...
Nov 7, 2018
When Michal Vadai's experiment worked for the first time, she jumped out of her seat.
Nov 7, 2018
Researchers are working to develop a method to convert water and carbon dioxide to the renewable energy of the future, using the energy from the sun and graphene applied to the surface of cubic silicon carbide. They have now taken an important ste...
Nov 7, 2018
A research group has successfully developed a methodology for enhancing thermoelectric power factor while decreasing thermal conductivity. By introducing ZnO nanowires into ZnO films, the thermoelectric power factor became 3 times larger than that...
Nov 7, 2018
Researchers retooled an electron microscope to work with visible light and gas flow, making it possible to watch a photochemical reaction as it swept across a nanoparticle the size of a single cold virus.
Nov 7, 2018
A research group successfully developed a methodology for enhancing thermoelectric power factor while decreasing thermal conductivity. By introducing ZnO nanowires into ZnO films, the thermoelectric power factor became 3 times larger than that of ...
Nov 7, 2018
Layered transition metal dichalcogenides or TMDCs—materials composed of metal nanolayers sandwiched between two other layers of chalcogens— have become extremely attractive to the research community due to their ability to exfoliate into 2-D singl...
Nov 7, 2018
In order to thoroughly control how a data-storage material switches to physical form, researchers have developed the world’s most powerful electromagnetic pulses in the terahertz range. This...
Nov 7, 2018
Filtering and treating water accounts for about 13 percent of all electricity consumed in the US every year and releases about 290 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually. New research demonstrates that recently developed liquid-ga...
Nov 7, 2018
