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Bio & Medicine Apr 3, 2025

Dialysis device that uses nanoelectrokinetic technology could be used as portable artificial kidney

A research team has developed a compact peritoneal dialysis device that can be utilized as a portable artificial kidney. This research was published on March 29 in the journal Journal of Nanobiotechnology.

Nanophysics Apr 3, 2025

Nitrogen and argon plasma boosts performance of carbon-based supercapacitor electrodes

Scientists from Skoltech, the Institute of Nanotechnology of Microelectronics, RAS, and other research centers have refined the understanding of how plasma treatment of carbon-based electrodes affects the key characteristics ...

Nanophysics Apr 3, 2025

Nanostructuring MOF crystals unlocks their potential, retaining electrical properties with enhanced sensitivity

Scientists at IMDEA Nanociencia are working on the development of materials whose properties can change as easily as we flip a switch. They focus on joining molecular switching (spin transition), electrical transport properties ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 2, 2025

A router for photons: Transducer could enable superconducting quantum networks

Applied physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive ...

Nanophysics Apr 1, 2025

Doubling down on metasurfaces: Bilayer device can control many forms of polarized light

Almost a decade ago, Harvard engineers unveiled the world's first visible-spectrum metasurfaces—ultra-thin, flat devices patterned with nanoscale structures that could precisely control the behavior of light. A powerful ...

Nanophysics Mar 31, 2025

Three-site Kitaev chain enhances stability of Majorana zero modes

An international research team led by QuTech has realized a three-site Kitaev chain using semiconducting quantum dots coupled by superconducting segments in a hybrid InSb/Al nanowire. When comparing two-and three-site chains ...

Bio & Medicine Mar 31, 2025

Applying a magnetic field to rod-like viruses induces them to form disks of tunable shape and size

Seeking to mimic self-assembly processes that occur naturally, RIKEN researchers have demonstrated that the self-assembly of rod-shaped viruses can be controlled by applying a magnetic field. This could help in the development ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 28, 2025

Efficient light control: Meta-optics replace conventional lenses

Conventional curved lenses, which direct light by refraction in glass or plastic, are often bulky and heavy, offering only limited control of light waves. Metasurfaces, in contrast, are flat and consist of an array of tiny ...

Bio & Medicine Mar 26, 2025

'Magnetic tweezers': Making robotic surgery safer and more precise with a human touch

Imagine if a doctor could remotely do a non-invasive, highly precise medical procedure on her patients using a tiny robot, or microrobot. With a device researchers from SMU and George Washington University created, that is ...

Space Exploration Mar 24, 2025

Scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails developed for next-generation space exploration

Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support future advances in space exploration and experimental physics. Their research, published in Nature Communications, ...

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