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Manipulating light with metamaterials to make materials appear transparent (w/video)

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

This video explains how metamaterials made up of nanoscale components can potentially make materials appear transparent by manipulating how light interacts with them.

Aug 2, 2023

Benefits of Nanobionic in automotive interiors

Innovation in Textiles   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

FIRs penetrate deeply into the body, improving circulation, reducing muscle stiffness and promoting relaxation.

Aug 2, 2023

Quantum-enhanced non-interferometric quantitative phase imaging

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Optical phase retrieval and imaging appear in a wide variety of science fields, such as imaging of quasi-transparent biological samples or nanostructures metrological characterization, for example, in the semiconductor industry. At a fundamental l...

Aug 1, 2023

Triboelectric Nanogenerator – New Technology Successfully Harvests Electricity From Raindrops

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

When droplets of rain descend from the clouds, they generate a small amount of energy that can be captured and converted into electricity. This process can be seen as a miniaturized form of hydropower, which employs the kinetic force of moving wat...

Aug 1, 2023

The Solar Cell Discovery Machine

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

With the aid of crystals known as perovskites, solar cells are increasingly breaking records in how well they convert sunlight to electricity. Now a new automated system could make those records fall even faster. North Carolina State University’s ...

Aug 1, 2023

'Andreev chemistry' on a nanowire: Researchers generate superconducting pair states separated by grown barriers

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at the University of Basel and Lund University have generated superconducting pair states of electrons on several segments of a nanowire, separated by grown barriers. Depending on the height of the barriers, these pair states can be co...

Aug 1, 2023

Nanopore technology achieves breakthrough in protein variant detection

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of scientists led by the University of Oxford have achieved a significant breakthrough in detecting modifications on protein structures. The method, published in Nature Nanotechnology, employs innovative nanopore technology to identify stru...

Aug 1, 2023

Using sound waves to image nanostructures

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

The potential of an ultrafast form of transmission electron microscopy to measure sound waves in nanostructures has been demonstrated by three RIKEN physicists. This could help realize a high-resolution imaging method that uses ultrahigh-frequency...

Aug 1, 2023

Nanopore technology achieves breakthrough in protein variant detection

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Protein chains are fed through an engineered nanopore, with subtle variations in structure detected through the modulation of tiny electrical currents.

Aug 1, 2023

Nanopore technology achieves breakthrough in protein variant detection

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Scientists have achieved a significant breakthrough in detecting modifications on protein structures. The method employs innovative nanopore technology to identify structural variations at the single-molecule level, even deep within long protein c...

Aug 1, 2023

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