Month: December 2019

From dyes to construction materials, and from cosmetic products to electronics and medicine, nanomaterials are found in many different applications. But what are these materials? “Nanomaterials are defined purely by their size,” explains Dr Kristin Schubert from the Department of Molecular Systems Biology at UFZ. “Materials between one and 100 nanometres in size are referred

IMAGE: Artificial water channels enable fast and selective water permeation through water-wire networks view more  Credit: Erik Zumalt, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin A multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists has discovered a new method for water filtration that could have implications for a variety of technologies, such as desalination plants,

Tsukuba, Japan – When you’re only one of trillions, it can be hard to get ahead. That’s the problem faced by aquatic bacterium Leptothrix cholodnii, which is often found in the slime-like microbial mats common to mineral-rich bodies of water. Therefore, to establish itself in these communities, L. cholodnii forms long, rigid filaments that become

200 years ago, a doctor from France used a stethoscope for the first time and countless efforts to observe human body have been made since then. Up to now, the best tool that provides anatomical, functional, and molecular information of human and animal is the photoacoustic microscopy. Super-resolution localization photoacoustic microscopy which is 500 times

IMAGE: The Making of a Quantum Dot “Molecule “. view more  Credit: Meirav Oded and Somnath Koley. Are you ready for the future? Back in 1869, Russia’s Dmitri Mendeleev began to classify the elements according to their chemical properties, giving rise to the Periodical Table of Elements. “I saw in a dream a table where all

IMAGE: Light localized in space inside the topological crystal, entangled by interaction and topology. view more  Credit: ITMO University A new approach to trapping light in artificial photonic materials by a City College of New York-led team could lead to a tremendous boost in the transfer speed of data online. Research into topological photonic metamaterials headed

IMAGE: Tin oxide SNCs finely prepared by a dendrimer template method are loaded on the thin silica shell layers of plasmonic amplifiers, such that the Raman signals of the SNCs are… view more  Credit: Science Advances Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) developed a new methodology that allows researchers to assess the chemical composition

IMAGE: The construction of a synthetic DNA nanopore capable of selectively translocating protein-size macromolecules across lipid bilayers. view more  Credit: Rasmus Peter Thomsen, Aarhus University In 2015, the first commercial nanopore DNA sequencing device was introduced by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Based on a synthetically engineered transmembrane protein, nanopore sequencing allows long DNA strands to be channelled

IMAGE: General distribution of stresses in the “endoprosthesis-skeleton ” model of the biomechanical structure when a patient is standing on two legs. The voltage range is from 1 to 100 MPa. view more  Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University A team of scientists from the Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Center of the National Technology Initiative (NTI)

IMAGE: A new wrap developed by researchers at McMaster University repels everything that comes into contact with it, including viruses and bacteria. view more  Credit: Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University HAMILTON, ON, Dec. 13, 2019 – A team of researchers at McMaster University has developed a self-cleaning surface that can repel all forms of bacteria, preventing the