Nano-thin flexible touchscreens could be printed like newspaper
New touch-responsive technology is 100 times thinner than existing touchscreen materials and so pliable it can be rolled up like ...
Tag: Nanotechnology/Micromachines
A megalibrary of nanoparticles
Credit: Schaak Laboratory, Penn State Using straightforward chemistry and a mix-and-match, modular strategy, researchers have developed a simple approach that ...
Quantum experiments explore power of light for communications, computing
Credit: Christopher Tison and Michael Fanto/Air Force Research Laboratory. A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...
The easy route the easy way: New chip calculates the shortest distance in an instant
Scientists have developed the world's first fully coupled AI chip that can solve the traveling salesman problem for 22 cities ...
Wannier90 program becomes community code in major new release
New functionalities, improvements make it very robust, efficient and feature-richCredit: Valerio Vitale @Imperial College London Wannier functions were first introduced ...
How’re your cells’ motors running?
A new 'molecular nano-patterning' technique reveals that some molecular motors coordinate differentlyCredit: Science Graphics Japan -- Any kind of body ...
Integrate micro chips for electronic skin
Researchers from Dresden and Osaka present the first fully integrated flexible electronics made of magnetic sensors and organic circuits which ...
Deep-sea osmolyte makes biomolecular machines heat-tolerant
Credit: Munmun, T. et. al., Chemical Communications, Dec. 26, 2019 Researchers have discovered a method to control biomolecular machines over ...
Physicists trap light in nanoresonators for record time
The reference particle captured light for a time exceeding 200 periods of one wave oscillation, 20-40 times longer than usual; ...
Less may be more in next-gen batteries
Rice lab tests cells with silicon anodes, aluminum coatings that protect cathodesCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 21, 2020) ...
3D printing with applications in the pharmaceutical industry
Researchers have, for the first time, succeeded in printing a 3D image with stabilised gold nanoparticles with biodegradable and biocompatible ...
$2M NSF grant fuels Lehigh U research partnership with Michelin North America, Cornell
Lehigh bioengineering chair Anand Jagota lands university's first LEAP HI GOALI award in support of work on friction that could ...
Designer-defect clamping of ferroelectric domain walls for more-stable nanoelectronics
Improved stability a significant step forward for domain-wall nanoelectronic data storageCredit: FLEET A UNSW study published today in Nature Communications ...
New image analysis method for time-lapse microscopy shows how giant viruses infect amoeba
Scientists at Tokyo University of Science, Japan, devised a new method that reveals how amoebae react to infection by giant ...