Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny gold “seed” particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spherical molecules that are cousins of the carbon buckybal...
Aug 21, 2023
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) have presented a laser-assisted layer-by-layer covalent growth approach for producing highly crystalline all-graphene macrostructures (AGMs).
Aug 21, 2023
Researchers have developed a novel material using tiny organic crystals that convert light into a substantial mechanical force able to lift 10,000 times its own mass. Without the need for heat or electricity, the photomechanical material could one...
Aug 21, 2023
Chip manufacturing, gravitational wave detectors, and quantum computers could all benefit from better ways to measure a vacuum.
Aug 21, 2023
Quantum dots come in dimensions of 1.5 to 10 nanometers and have unique chemical and physical properties.
Aug 21, 2023
New research supported by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has shown that the time to detect polio can be halved using a technique called Direct molecular Detection and Nanopore Sequencing (DDNS), supporting the globa...
Aug 21, 2023
Researchers have developed “smart rust,” iron oxide nanoparticles that clean water by attracting pollutants such as oil, nano- and microplastics, glyphosate, and even estrogen hormones.
Aug 20, 2023
Auto accidents are responsible for 1.3 million deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization. That’s like losing the city of Prague each year. A switch to self-driving cars and trucks with various types of electronic sensors and soph...
Aug 20, 2023
A team of researchers has developed an inhalable vaccine that successfully protects against the COVID virus. It also opens the door to delivering other messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics for gene replacement therapy and other treatments in the lungs.
Aug 20, 2023
Researchers have introduced a novel algorithm called Automated Compression of Arbitrary Environments (ACE) designed to study the interactions of qubits with their surrounding environment and the ensuing changes in their quantum state. By simplifyi...
Aug 19, 2023
