Silver-plated gold nanostars detect early cancer biomarkers
New optical sensing platform can detect genomic cancer biomarkers directly in patient tissuesCredit: Tuan Vo-Dinh, Duke University Biomedical engineers at ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
How the regulator is regulated — Insight into immune-related protein holds therapeutic value
Scientists unravel how the immune checkpoint protein PD-L2 is regulated, which has potential implications in immune therapyCredit: Tokyo University of ...
Physicists find ways to control gamma radiation
A paper appeared in Physical Review LettersCredit: Kazan Federal University Researchers from Kazan Federal University, Texas A&M University and Institute ...
Working on the frontier of nanoparticle research
Mpourmpakis's CANELa lab work featured on cover of the Journal Dalton Transactions and selected as hot articleCredit: Mpourmpakis and Cowan ...
Photon-based processing units enable more complex machine learning
Using photons to create more powerful and power-efficient processing units for artificial intelligenceCredit: Mario Miscuglio WASHINGTON, July 21, 2020 -- ...
Can social unrest, riot dynamics be modeled?
Exploring episodes of social unrest and rioting, discovering a way to model its spreadCredit: Sergio Rica Mery WASHINGTON, July 21, ...
Lithium ion battery waste used in biodiesel production from discarded vegetable oil
Using mixtures of metal hydroxides as a catalyst provides way to make cleaner fuel in minutes at room temperatureCredit: Gilberto ...
Li-ions transport across electrolytes and SEI like beads passing through a Galton Board
Credit: ©Science China Press The kinetics of Li-ions transport across the electrolyte and the SEI is usually the rate-determining step ...
Thermal manipulation of plasmons in atomically thin films
Credit: by Eduardo J. C. Dias, Renwen Yu, F. Javier García de Abajo Surface plasmons in graphene have been widely ...
A survey on optical memory and optical RAM technologies
Credit: by Alexoudi, T., Kanellos, G.T. & Pleros, N. Over the past decades, "storing light" has appeared as a rather ...
Application-driven quantum and statistical physics volume 3, published
A short course for future scientists and engineersCredit: World Scientific As part of our Essential Textbooks in Physics series, the ...
Topological photonics in fractal lattices
Credit: by Zhaoju Yang, Eran Lustig, Yaakov Lumer and Mordechai Segev Topological insulators are a new phase of matter featured ...
Valley-Hall nanoscale lasers
Credit: by Daria Smirnova, Aditya Tripathi, Sergey Kruk, Min-Soo Hwang, Ha-Reem Kim, Hong-Gyu Park, and Yuri Kivshar Topological photonics underpins ...
Through the nanoscale looking glass — determining boson peak frequency in ultra-thin alumina
Boson peak in ultra-thin alumina glass: Neutron spectroscopy confirms molecular dynamics simulationCredit: RMIT/UOW There's more to glass than meets the ...
New detection method turns silicon cameras into mid-infrared detectors
Credit: by David Knez, Adam Hanninen, Richard Prince, Eric Potma and Dmitry Fishman The MIR range of the electromagnetic spectrum, ...
Synthetic dimensions enable a new way to construct higher-order topological insulators
Credit: by Avik Dutt, Momchil Minkov, Ian A. D. Williamson, and Shanhui Fan Topological insulators have been an exciting field ...
Temporal aiming with temporal metamaterials
Credit: by Victor Pacheco-Peña and Nader Engheta Tailoring and manipulating electromagnetic wave propagation has been of great interest within the ...
Better wastewater treatment? It’s a wrap
Rice's trap-and-zap strategy for antibiotic resistant bugs becomes wrap, trap and zapCredit: Alvarez Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 20, ...
SLAC’s upgraded X-ray laser facility produces first light
Marking the beginning of the LCLS-II era, the first phase of the major upgrade comes onlineCredit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory ...
Physicists take stop-action images of light-driven molecular reaction
Credit: Lea-Maria Ibele MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Kansas State University physicists have taken extremely fast snapshots of light-induced molecular ring-opening reactions ...
