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Molecular & Computational biology Jan 18, 2022

Halting antibiotic resistance is a little less futile

A new experimental platform developed at Rice University promises to speed up the discovery of how infectious bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. 

Condensed Matter Jan 18, 2022

Research produces record levels of strain in single-crystal silicon

University of Surrey researchers have developed a single-step procedure to put single-crystal silicon under more strain than has been achieved before. The discovery, which has a patent pending, could be crucial to the future ...

Nanophysics Dec 23, 2021

Researchers use electron microscope to turn nanotube into tiny transistor

An international team of researchers have used a unique tool inserted into an electron microscope to create a transistor that's 25,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

Optics & Photonics Nov 22, 2021

GeSnOI mid-infrared laser technology

Direct band gap GeSn alloys have emerged as a promising group-IV gain material for low-cost infrared laser manufacturing. They face major issues like high threshold power, and low lasing temperature that hinder their integration ...

Condensed Matter Sep 27, 2021

New roadmap to better performing solar energy cells

Perovskite solar cells are in many ways already as efficient as conventional crystalline silicon-based solar cells; perovskite has the added benefit of being much more cost-effective than its silicon counterpart. Perovskites ...

Nanophysics Sep 20, 2021

Nano-scale discovery could help to cool down overheating in electronics

A team of physicists at CU Boulder has solved the mystery behind a perplexing phenomenon in the nano realm: why some ultra-small heat sources cool down faster if you pack them closer together. The findings, published today ...

Materials Science Jul 30, 2021

Intentional cracks and wrinkles provide low-cost option for medical screening

Size matters when it comes to sorting biological materials. From identifying pathogens to screening for drug treatments, the ability to quickly identify and separate particles based on their size is an increasingly important ...

Nanomaterials Jul 28, 2021

Monitoring the evolution of crystal dislocations in a silicene sheet

We might imagine crystals to be perfect structures, but they are, in fact, often plagued with "defects." Curiously enough, such defects often appear due to atoms undergoing reorganization to lower the energy of the system ...

General Physics Jul 23, 2021

A curvy and shape-adaptive imager based on printed optoelectronic pixels

Curved imagers that can adjust their shape could have many valuable applications, for instance, aiding the development of more advanced medical imaging tools and cameras. Most existing flexible curvy imagers, however, are ...

Optics & Photonics Jun 24, 2021

A simple method to enhance responsivity of terahertz radiation detectors

Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with colleagues from Spanish universities have offered a simple method how to enhance the responsivity of terahertz radiation detectors by 3.5 times using a small Teflon ...

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