Computers have been able to quickly process 2D images for some time. Your cell phone can snap digital photographs and manipulate them in a number of ways. Much more difficult, however, is processing an image in three dimensions, ...
General Physics
Jul 26, 2021
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2044
The demand for flexible wearable electronics has spiked with the dramatic growth of smart devices that can exchange data with other devices over the internet with embedded sensors, software, and other technologies. Researchers ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 10, 2021
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118
3D bioprinting can create engineered scaffolds that mimic natural tissue. Controlling the cellular organization within those engineered scaffolds for regenerative applications is a complex and challenging process.
Soft Matter
May 5, 2021
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49
How body clocks work could lead to science that can turn an early bird into a night owl or vice versa as well as other advances, like helping crops grow all year long.
General Physics
May 4, 2021
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66
Dragonfly wings, lotus leaves, cicada wings—thanks to millennia of evolution, nature has optimized the ways these surfaces and others behave to offer antibacterial functionality.
Condensed Matter
Apr 6, 2021
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25
Ultrasound can be used to treat cancer when used in combination with molecules that sensitize the system to sound waves. These sonosensitizers generate toxic reactive oxygen species that attack and kill tumor cells.
Bio & Medicine
Dec 8, 2020
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117
Sodium-ion batteries are poised to replace lithium-ion batteries for large-scale electrical energy storage. They offer several advantages over lithium-ion batteries, particularly due to the widespread abundance of sodium.
General Physics
Dec 8, 2020
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94
In the journal Applied Physics Reviews, an international research team from the University of Barcelona, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), and TU Darmstadt report on possibilities for implementing more efficient ...
General Physics
Dec 4, 2020
2
92
Lithium-ion batteries are the major rechargeable power source for many portable devices as well as electric vehicles, but their use is limited, because they do not provide high power output while simultaneously allowing reversible ...
General Physics
Nov 10, 2020
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322
Northwestern University researchers have developed a new computational approach to accelerate the design of materials exhibiting metal-insulator transitions (MIT), a rare class of electronic materials that have shown potential ...
Materials Science
Nov 6, 2020
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216
