It's not enough to design new drugs. For drugs to be effective, they have to be delivered safely and intact to affected areas of the body. And drug delivery, much like drug design, is an immensely complex task. Cutting-edge ...
Materials Science
Feb 27, 2017
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As interest and demand for nanotechnology continues to rise, so will the need for nanoscale printing and spraying, which relies on depositing tiny drops of liquid onto a surface. Now researchers from Tsinghua University in ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 30, 2017
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College students have used it to make cheap furniture, China has had shortages of it, and main character Michael Scott of "The Office" once famously buried his face in it. Concrete is everywhere—a ubiquity owed to its strength ...
Materials Science
Aug 2, 2016
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Using molecular dynamics simulations, researchers have analysed the properties of supercritical water. The researchers showed which structure of the hydrogen bond network is formed in different supercritical states and also ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 21, 2016
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Does glass in cathedral windows flow downward at room temperature—acting essentially as a liquid in super slow-motion? No. It's a myth. The larger volume observed at the bottom of some windows is due to the manufacturing ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 16, 2015
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A detailed nano-mechanical study of mechanical degradation processes in silicon structures containing varying levels of lithium ions offers good news for researchers attempting to develop reliable next-generation rechargeable ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 24, 2015
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While many people may think of cholesterol only as the culprit in heart disease and other serious conditions, this miraculous molecule is actually essential to our cells—organizing the fatty acids in the membranes that ...
Biochemistry
Sep 22, 2015
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Argonne scientists used Mira to identify and improve a new mechanism for eliminating friction, which fed into the development of a hybrid material that exhibited superlubricity at the macroscale for the first time. Argonne ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 22, 2015
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are learning how the properties of water molecules on the surface of metal oxides can be used to better control these minerals and use them to make ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 14, 2015
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Enzymes are macromolecular biological catalysists that lead most of chemical reactions in living organisms. The main focus of enzymology lies on enzymes themselves, whereas the role of water motions in mediating the biological ...
Biochemistry
Nov 26, 2014
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