Month: February 2020

IMAGE: Figure. A: Optical image and band diagram of the heterojunction formed by the thickness variation of black phosphorus 2D material. B: Schematic of the tunnel field-effect transistor and the thickness-dependent… view more  Credit: KAIST Researchers have reported a black phosphorus transistor that can be used as an alternative ultra-low power switch. A research team led

IMAGE: Professor Xu is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. view more  Credit: Lehigh University Xiaoji Xu, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Lehigh University, has been named a 2020 Sloan Research Fellow. This prestigious award, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, places Xu

IMAGE: Prof. Job Boekhoven and Caren Wanzke at the Technical University of Munich discovered a new material system that can release drugs with a constant release rate over a tunable period… view more  Credit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Using a mixture of oil droplets and hydrogel, medical active agents can be not only precisely dosed, but

IMAGE: Tulane National Primate Research Center Director Jay Rappaport (right) and Skip Bohm, associate director and chief veterinary medical officer, are part of a team establishing a COVID-19 research program at… view more  Credit: Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano. From working to develop one of the first nonhuman primate models for the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, a part of The University of Tokyo, have developed a new procedure for recycling concrete with the addition of discarded wood. They found that the correct proportion of inputs can yield a new building material with a bending strength superior to that of the original

IMAGE: This is a schematic image of graphene plasmonic metamolecules capable of independent amplitude and phase control of light. view more  Credit: KAIST Researchers described a new strategy of designing metamolecules that incorporates two independently controllable subwavelength meta-atoms. This two-parametric control of the metamolecule secures the complete control of both amplitude and the phase of light.

IMAGE: Gene-infused nanoparticles used for combating disease work better when they include plant-based relatives of cholesterol because their shape and structure help the genes get where they need to be inside… view more  Credit: Image provided by Gaurav Sahay, OSU College of Pharmacy. PORTLAND, Ore. – Gene-infused nanoparticles used for combating disease work better when they

IMAGE: Mark Jankauski, right, works in his lab with collaborator Erick Johnson on instruments used to study the complex shapes and motions associated with insect flight. MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez…. view more  Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN — In the engineer’s world, vibration is usually a bad thing. It means that something is

Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, with colleagues from Poland and China used liquid crystal elastomer technology to demonstrate a rotary micromotor powered with light. The 5-millimeter diameter ring, driven and controlled by a laser beam, can rotate and perform work, e.g. by rotating another element installed on the same

IMAGE: Schematic of modes of interest in the single-magnon detector. The uniformly-processing mode of collective spin excitations in the ferromagnetic crystal, called Kittel mode, is coherently coupler to a superconducting qubit… view more  Credit: ©Dany Lachance-Quirion Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at The University of Tokyo demonstrated

At the Department for Materials of the ETH in Zurich, Pietro Gambardella and his collaborators investigate tomorrow’s memory devices. They should be fast, retain data reliably for a long time and also be cheap. So-called magnetic “random access memories” (MRAM) achieve this quadrature of the circle by combining fast switching via electric currents with durable

The development of next generation solar power technology that has potential to be used as a flexible ‘skin’ over hard surfaces has moved a step closer, thanks to a significant breakthrough at The University of Queensland. UQ researchers set a world record for the conversion of solar energy to electricity via the use of tiny

IMAGE: Interferometric Scattering Microscopy (iSCAT) enables fast 3D tracking of individual gold nanoparticle-labelled proteins upon the dynamic terrain of the live cell membrane. view more  Credit: Drawing depicting the landscape of a cell surface with a gold nanoparticle tracing courtesy of Richard Taylor. SAN DIEGO, CA – The piece of gold that Richard Taylor was thrilled