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Turning streetwear into solar power plants
Researchers at Empa and ETH Zurich succeeded in developing a material that works like a luminescent solar concentrator and can even be applied to textiles. This opens up numerous possibilities for producing energy directly ...
Nanophysics
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Cicada-inspired waterproof surfaces closer to reality, researchers report
A multidisciplinary group that studies the physical and chemical properties of insect wings has demonstrated the ability to reproduce the nanostructures that help cicada wings repel water and prevent bacteria from establishing ...
Nanomaterials
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Scientists break resolution records to visualize individual atoms with single-particle cryo-EM
Looking at the precise three-dimensional arrangement of atoms within a protein helps us to understand how it can perform its functions. Although electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) has developed rapidly as an important structural ...
Nanophysics
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With innovative nanofiber membranes, cloth masks' efficacy goes up to 99%
The cloth masks many are sporting these days offer some protection against COVID-19. However, they typically provide much less than the professional N95 masks used by healthcare workers.
Bio & Medicine
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Physicists create 3-D printed microboat
From prow to stern, this little boat measures 30 micrometers, about a third of the thickness of a hair. It has been 3-D-printed by Leiden physicists Rachel Doherty, Daniela Kraft and colleagues.
Nanophysics
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Oxygen can do a favor to synthesize metal-organic frameworks
Metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, are composed of metal ions periodically surrounded by organic bridging molecules, and these hybrid crystalline frameworks feature a cage-like hollow structure. This unique structure motif ...
Nanomaterials
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A flexible color-changing film inspired by chameleon skin
Chameleons can famously change their colors to camouflage themselves, communicate and regulate their temperature. Scientists have tried to replicate these color-changing properties for stealth technologies, anti-counterfeiting ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 21, 2020
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Kitchen-temperature supercurrents from stacked 2-D materials
Could a stack of 2-D materials allow for supercurrents at ground-breaking warm temperatures, easily achievable in the household kitchen?
Nanophysics
Oct 21, 2020
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Delivering proteins to testes could someday treat male infertility
According to the Mayo Clinic, about 15% of couples are infertile, and male infertility plays a role in over one-third of these cases. Often, problems with sperm development are to blame. Now, researchers reporting in ACS ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 21, 2020
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Magic fibers: A researcher's work to create 'smart fabrics' that can change color
Imagine using a cleaning wipe that could detect the presence of a bacteria or pathogen and change to a different color, or an N95 respirator mask that could detect the presence of the novel coronavirus and respond in a way ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 21, 2020
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Energy scavenging nanogenerator finds power all around us
Imagine a mobile phone charger that doesn't need a wireless or mains power source. Or a pacemaker with inbuilt organic energy sources within the human body.
Nanophysics
Oct 20, 2020
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Researchers use gold nanorod scattering to identify immune system's 'killer and savior'
Every biological system is naturally equipped with a defense mechanism to protect against abnormal changes caused by either local, environmental, or biochemical alteration. White blood cells (WBC) play the role of such a ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 20, 2020
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Researchers create a single-molecule switch
A team of researchers has demonstrated for the first time a single-molecule electret—a device that could be one of the keys to molecular computers.
Nanophysics
Oct 20, 2020
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Boron nitride nanofilms for protection from bacterial and fungal infections
NUST MISIS material scientists have presented antibacterial nano-coatings based on boron nitride, which are highly effective against microbial pathogens (up to 99.99%). They can become a safe alternative to the usual antibiotics ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 20, 2020
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A novel, low-cost method detects nanoscale contaminants during manufacture of semiconductor devices
As computer chips and other electronic devices continue to shrink in size, they become ever more sensitive to contamination. However, detecting the nanoscale equivalent of a water spot on a window is incredibly challenging. ...
Nanophysics
Oct 20, 2020
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Creating perfect edges in 2-D-materials
Ultrathin materials such as graphene promise a revolution in nanoscience and technology. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have published a study in Nature Communications in which they present a method ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 19, 2020
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Scientists encapsulate quantum dots in salt
It's widely known that submerging a pared apple in saltwater prevents oxidation and browning, but did you know that saltwater can also protect fragile quantum dot (QD) materials? A research team led by Prof. Chen Hsueh-Shih ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 19, 2020
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Researchers develop magnetically switchable mechano-chemotherapy to overcome tumor drug resistance
Prof. Wu Aiguo's team at the Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed a novel therapeutic method termed ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 19, 2020
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New device powers wearable sensors through human motion
The advent of inexpensive wearable sensors that can monitor heart rate and body temperature, as well as levels of blood sugar and metabolic byproducts, has allowed researchers and health professionals to monitor human health ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 16, 2020
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Calcium bursts kill drug-resistant tumor cells
Multidrug resistance (MDR)—a process in which tumors become resistant to multiple medicines—is the main cause of failure of cancer chemotherapy. Tumor cells often acquire MDR by boosting their production of proteins that ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 16, 2020
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