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Molecular & Computational biology Mar 18, 2024

Cacao plants' defense against toxic cadmium unveiled

Researchers from the University Grenoble Alpes (UGA), France, together with the ESRF, the European Synchrotron located in Grenoble, France, used ESRF's bright X-rays to unveil how cacao trees protect themselves from toxic ...

Nanophysics Mar 18, 2024

A simple, scalable method using light to 3D print helical nanostructures

A new fabrication process for helical metal nanoparticles provides a simpler, cheaper way to rapidly produce a material essential for biomedical and optical devices, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers.

Nanophysics Mar 18, 2024

Eyes on the impossible: First near-field, subwavelength thermal radiation measurement

Nanodevices change the way we diagnose disease, process food and water, and store renewable energy. But to keep up with next-generation technology, researchers need to understand the fundamental principles that prompt their ...

Bio & Medicine Mar 15, 2024

DNA origami-based vaccine platform enhances anti-tumor responses through nanometer-precise spacing of molecules

Therapeutic cancer vaccines are a form of immunotherapy in the making that could not only destroy cancer cells in patients, but keep a cancer from coming back and spreading. Multiple therapeutic cancer vaccines are being ...

Nanophysics Mar 15, 2024

New electron microscopy technique for thermal diffusion measurements

A NIMS research team has developed a technique that enables the nanoscale observation of heat propagation paths and behavior within material specimens. This was achieved using a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) ...

Nanomaterials Mar 14, 2024

Researchers overcome lattice mismatch issue to advance optoelectronic applications

A research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently successfully achieved lattice-mismatch-free construction of III-V/chalcogenide core-shell heterostructure nanowires for electronic and optoelectronic applications. ...

Nanomaterials Mar 12, 2024

Researchers reveal ways to fine-tune nanoparticles and outline future areas of study

The demand for renewable energy sources is constantly growing fueling the development of catalytic-based technologies. By separating and forming chemical bonds, these technologies can be used to produce environmentally friendly ...

Superconductivity Mar 11, 2024

Giving particle detectors a boost: New device acts like a superconductivity switch

In particle colliders that reveal the hidden secrets of the tiniest constituents of our universe, minute particles leave behind extremely faint electrical traces when they are generated in enormous collisions. Some detectors ...

Analytical Chemistry Mar 11, 2024

Greener, cheaper method to accelerate chemical reactions developed

A new, greener, and cheaper method to accelerate chemical reactions has been developed by scientists at King's College London in collaboration with the University of Barcelona and ETH Zurich. Instead of using polluting and ...

Nanomaterials Mar 11, 2024

Combined microscopy technique observes nanoscale behavior of light-driven polymers

Expanding our scientific understanding often comes down to getting as close a look as possible at what is happening. Now researchers from Japan have observed the nanoscale behavior of azo-polymer films while triggering them ...

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