High-tech contact lenses correct color blindness
Researchers apply metasurfaces to standard contact lenses for customizable color correctionCredit: Sharon Karepov, Tel Aviv University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
Expanding the plasmonic painter’s palette
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b07523 By blending paints in their palette, artists can create a broad spectrum ...
Micromotors get supercharged with three ‘engines’
Credit: Adapted from Chemistry of Materials 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b04873 Someday, microscopic robots could perform useful functions, such as diagnostic testing ...
Nanoscale spectroscopy review showcases a bright future
Modern society is working closer to the nanoscale than it realisesCredit: Luco Bravo Unsplash Modern society is working closer to ...
A talented 2D material gets a new gig
Berkeley Lab scientists tap into graphene's hidden talent as an electrically tunable superconductor, insulator, and magnetic device for the advancement ...
Scientists discover new repair mechanism for alcohol-induced DNA damage
Credit: Image copyright: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology or MRC LMB Researchers of the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) in Utrecht, The ...
Exciting apparatus helps atoms see the light
Researchers study unusual particles involved in quantum information processingCredit: OIST Researchers in the Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit at ...
Sulfonated chitosan studied as potential biodegradable corrosion inhibitor
Kazan University's research of methane hydrates continues in this paper in Carbohydrate PolymersCredit: Kazan Federal University Hydrate formation has long ...
Scorpions make a fluorescent compound that could help protect them from parasites
Credit: Adapted from Journal of Natural Products 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.9b00972 Most scorpions glow a blue-green color when illuminated by ultraviolet ...
DNA sugars characterised in unprecedented resolution, atom by atom
Researchers at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country have developed the technology needed to be able to determine the structure ...
All optical control of exciton flow in a colloidal quantum well complex
Credit: Junhong Yu, Manoj Sharma, Ashma Sharma, Savas Delikanli, Hilmi Volkan Demir, Cuong Dang Exciton-based solid-state devices have the potential ...
A small step for atoms, a giant leap for microelectronics
Nature paper reports making and moving large-scale hexagonal boron nitrideCredit: TSMC/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 4, 2020) - Step by ...
Coherent phonon dynamics realized in spatially separated mechanical resonators
Credit: Prof. GUO Guo-Ping, SONG Xiang-Xiang, DENG Guang-Wei,TIAN Lin The CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information makes a significant progress ...
Robot uses artificial intelligence and imaging to draw blood
Rutgers engineers create device that can also insert cathetersCredit: Martin Yarmush and Alvin Chen Rutgers engineers have created a tabletop ...
SMART announces revolutionary new process for scientific applications
New microfluidic process enables researchers to create unique environment for developing medicine that cannot be achieved through conventional methods, paving ...
Biomaterial discovery enables 3D printing of tissue-like vascular structures
Credit: Professor Alvaro Mata An international team of scientists have discovered a new material that can be 3D printed to ...
Supercomputers drive ion transport research
XSEDE-allocated Stampede2 supercomputer powers path-sampling molecular simulationsCredit: Malmir et al. For a long time, nothing. Then all of a sudden, ...
Scientists created an ‘impossible’ superconducting compound
Credit: Science Advances Scientists have created new superconducting compounds of hydrogen and praseodymium, a rare-earth metal, one substance being quite ...
New technology helps reduce salt, keep flavor
Credit: WSU Eating too much salt can have significant negative health implications, and modern processed food typically contains high levels ...
Manipulating atoms to make better superconductors
Researchers experiment with collective dynamicsCredit: Dirk Morr Scientists have been interested in superconductors - materials that transmit electricity without losing ...
