Japanese scientists have reviewed recent progress in advanced optical materials based on gadolinium aluminate garnet (GAG), while pointing out the knowledge gaps that need to be filled to improve their optical performance.
Materials Science
Mar 18, 2016
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Recent developments and research related to iron oxide nanoparticles confirm their potential in biomedical applications – such as targeted drug delivery – and the necessity for further studies.
Bio & Medicine
Mar 15, 2016
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Researchers at MANA have developed a single-seed silicon cast method. Compared with conventional casting, the new method enables dramatic improvements in the crystalline quality of the silicon that are expected to improve ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 4, 2016
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Researchers at the National Institute for Materials Science—Han Zhang, Senior Researcher, Spin Characterization Group, and Jie Tang, Group Leader of the One-Dimensional Nanomaterials Group, Materials Processing Unit, and ...
Nanophysics
Jan 26, 2016
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A research group led by Naoki Fukata, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), and a research group at Georgia Institute of Technology jointly developed a double-layered ...
Nanophysics
Jan 18, 2016
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A joint research team in Japan has developed a "single-seed cast method," a new casting method making it possible to grow high-quality mono silicon at low cost. New casting method may facilitate the return of a market-competitive ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 14, 2016
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A research team led by Kazunari Yamaura, chief researcher, Superconducting Properties Unit, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, and Dr. Stuart Calder and others at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 14, 2016
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A NIMS MANA group theoretically demonstrated that the results of the experiments on the peculiar superconducting state reported by a Chinese research group in January 2015 prove the existence of the Majorana-type particles.
General Physics
Dec 18, 2015
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A NIMS research team led by Liyuan Han, director of the Photovoltaic Materials Unit, has developed the world's first method to fabricate high-quality perovskite materials capable of utilizing long-wavelength sunlight of 800 ...
Materials Science
Nov 2, 2015
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In recent years, patients with pulmonary emphysema have been increasing mainly among middle-aged and elderly males due to aging and excessive smoking. Emphysema makes brittle lungs, and in severe cases, holes develop in the ...
Materials Science
Oct 23, 2015
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