New understanding of how cells form tunnels may help in treating wounds, tumors
Credit: Virginia Tech A simple slice of the finger sends a complex series of interactions between types of cells into ...
Tag: Polymer Chemistry
Polymer science: Collaborative research centre at MLU receives 9 million
The Collaborative Research Centre SFB/Transregio 102 (CRC) "Polymers under Multiple Constraints" can continue its work at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ...
Brookhaven’s Mircea Cotlet named a Battelle “Inventor of the Year”
Award recognizes his research on light-matter interactions in hybrid nanomaterialsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Materials scientist Mircea Cotlet of the ...
How to program materials
Predict the properties of composite materialsCredit: Empa Ali Gooneie simulates on his computer what holds the world together right at ...
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. ...
Synthesis of helical ladder polymers
Credit: Kanazawa University Ladder polymers -- molecules made of adjacent rings sharing two or more atoms -- are challenging to ...
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 ...
Polymers jump through hoops on pathway to sustainable materials
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Recyclable plastics that contain ring-shaped polymers may be a key to ...
Machine learning predicts mechanical properties of porous materials
Credit: David Fairen-Jimenez Machine learning can be used to predict the properties of a group of materials which, according to ...
A new sensor for light, heat and touch
Thermodiffusion assisted pyroelectrics -- Enabling rapid and stable heat and radiation sensingCredit: Thor Balkhed Inspired by the behaviour of natural ...
Bacteria causing infections can be detected more rapidly
Professor Young-Tae Chang of POSTECH and his research team developed a fluorescent molecule for screening Gram-positive bacteriaCredit: POSTECH Two years ...
Mechanics, chemistry and biomedical research join forces for noninvasive tissue therapy
Credit: Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A fortuitous conversation between two University of Illinois scientists has opened a ...
Plastic gets a do-over: Breakthrough discovery recycles plastic from the inside out
Scientists from Berkeley Lab have made a next-generation plastic that can be recycled again and again into new materials of ...
Stickier than expected: Hydrogen binds to graphene in 10 femtoseconds
Bound for only ten quadrillionths of a secondCredit: Oliver Bünermann / Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry & University of ...