Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: ©Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS NUST MISIS scientists together with JSC "Shchelkovo Plant of Secondary Precious Metals" developed an innovative cascade ...

Fiber-based imaging spectrometer captures record amounts of data

Compact device could one day be used aboard unmanned aircraft for farming and environmental applications WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed ...

Shedding light on cancer metabolism in real-time with bioluminescence

Credit: EPFL EPFL scientists have invented a new way to quantify - in real-time - glucose metabolism of cancerous tumors ...

Cement as a climate killer: Using industrial waste to produce carbon neutral alternatives

Credit: Herbert Pöllmann / MLU Producing cement takes a big toll on our climate: Around eight per cent of annual ...

How plant viruses can be used to ward off pests and keep plants healthy

Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Imagine a technology that could target pesticides to treat specific spots ...

Ultra-thin superlattices from gold nanoparticles for nanophotonics

Physical chemistry: Publication in ACS Applied Materials & InterfacesCredit: HHU / Christoph Kawan The group "Colloids and Nanooptics" of Prof. ...

Thinking outside the box: ‘Seeing’ clearer and deeper into live organs

Scientists using a unique approach have developed a new biomedical imaging contrast agent Scientists using a unique approach have developed ...

Scientists at DGIST develop polariton nano-laser operating at room temperature

Credit: ©DGIST A room temperature polariton nano-laser has been demonstrated, providing the crucial path of related research such as polariton ...

Hard carbon nanofiber aerogel becomes superelastic

Conductive and compressible carbon aerogels are admirable in a variety of applications. In recent decades, carbon aerogels have been widely ...

Synthesis of helical ladder polymers

Credit: Kanazawa University Ladder polymers -- molecules made of adjacent rings sharing two or more atoms -- are challenging to ...

Identifying the molecular structure of one of Alzheimer’s stickier culprits

Understanding protein modifications that accelerate Alzheimer's could help researchers develop drugs to target cell degenerationCredit: Royalty-free stock photo ID: 1157052994 ...

Researchers unravel mechanisms that control cell size

Team of biologists, engineers and physicists uncover origins of precise cellular reproductionCredit: Jun Lab, UC San Diego Working with bacteria, ...

SHINE and IOCB Prague enter Lu-177 process license agreement

Novel separation method accelerates SHINE's path to market for cancer treatment isotopesCredit: IOCB Prague Prague, Czechia - SHINE Medical Technologies, ...

The science and technology of FAST

The mutual development of wireless communications and radio astronomy dates back to the 1930s when Karl Guthe Jansky discovered the ...

Restaurant acoustics that schmeckt

At the 177th Acoustical Society of America meeting in Louisville, acoustics scientists will describe how they are rolling out new ...

UBC researchers create washable sensor that can be woven into materials

Device will impact composites manufacturing and health-monitoring industriesCredit: UBCO Okanagan Forget the smart watch. Bring on the smart shirt. Researchers ...

Nanoscale sculpturing leads to unusual packing of nanocubes

Cube-shaped nanoparticles with thick shells of DNA assemble into a never-before-seen 3-D 'zigzag' pattern that breaks orientational symmetry; understanding such ...

Machine learning speeds modeling of experiments aimed at capturing fusion energy on Earth

Credit: NSTX-U experiment Machine learning (ML), a form of artificial intelligence that recognizes faces, understands language and navigates self-driving cars, ...

Metals influence C-peptide hormone related to insulin

New field of metalloendocrinology explores subtle effects of metals in body Metals such as zinc, copper and chromium bind to ...

Polymers jump through hoops on pathway to sustainable materials