Metals like silver, gold and copper can kill bacteria and viruses. An electric current can also eliminate microorganisms. A team of researchers combined the two approaches and created a new type of antimicrobial surface.
Mar 25, 2025
Cancer treatments have traditionally involved a difficult balance between effectiveness and side effects. For skin cancers, this challenge is particularly pronounced. Researchers have worked to find ways to selectively target cancer cells while sp...
Mar 25, 2025
A flower-shaped structure only a few micrometres in size made of a nickel-iron alloy can concentrate and locally enhance magnetic fields.
Mar 25, 2025
AIXTRON has announced it has become a partner in the “GraFunkL” research project for the use of novel graphene-enhanced UVC LEDs, which, among other things, are to be used against multi-resistant hospital pathogens.
Mar 25, 2025
Drugs and other treatments can be quite effective at killing cancer cells, yet many fall short as they struggle to penetrate deep into solid tumors due to physical barriers within the tissue. But in a recent study published in ACS Nano, researcher...
Mar 24, 2025
A research team led by Professor Hyung-Joon Shin from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has succeeded in elucidating the quantum phenomenon occurring within a triangular cluster of three water molecules. The work is publ...
Mar 24, 2025
A moiré pattern appears when you stack and rotate two copies of an image with regularly repeating shapes, turning simple patterns of squares or triangles into a groovy wave pattern that moves across the combined image in an optical delight.
Mar 24, 2025
Imagine building a Lego tower with perfectly aligned blocks. Each block represents an atom in a tiny crystal, known as a quantum dot. Just like bumping the tower can shift the blocks and change its structure, external forces can shift the atoms in...
Mar 24, 2025
Researchers have developed a new material that, by harnessing the power of sunlight, can clear water of dangerous pollutants. Created through a combination of soft chemistry gels and electrospinning—a technique where electrical force is applied to...
Mar 24, 2025
Researchers have developed a new material that, by harnessing the power of sunlight, can clear water of dangerous pollutants.
Mar 24, 2025
