Month: April 2020

IMAGE: Despite weighing about a third of a milligram, Penn Engineers are now testing their “nanocardboard ” flyers ability to lift payloads. In this artist’s conception, fleets of flyers could be launched… view more  Credit: Bargatin Group, Penn Engineering This summer, NASA plans to launch its next Mars rover, Perseverance, which will carry with it the

IMAGE: Graphene Flagship researchers reported a significant step forward in growing monoisotopic hexagonal boron nitride at atmospheric pressure for the production of large and very high-quality crystals. view more  Credit: Graphene Flagship Graphene Flagship researchers at RWTH Aachen University, Germany and ONERA-CNRS, France, in collaboration with researchers at the Peter Grunberg Institute, Germany, the University of

When looking at a left hand in the mirror, it looks like a right hand. However, the left hand never overlaps the right hand. Such a geometrical relationship that an image of the object in a plane mirror cannot be brought to coincide with itself is called chirality. A clockwise or counterclockwise helical staircase is

Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego are working on a COVID-19 vaccine using an unconventional candidate: a plant virus. The team’s goal is to use plants to create a stable, easy to manufacture vaccine that can be shipped around the globe. It will be packaged in slow-release microneedle patches that patients can wear

The team, led by physicists at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (TUK) in Germany and University of Vienna in Austria, generated the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) through a sudden change in temperature: first heating up quasi-particles slowly, then rapidly cooling them down back to room temperature. They demonstrated the method using quasi-particles called magnons, which represent the

IMAGE: ‘Metrology at a glance’ is the Helmholtz Prize’s motto. view more  Credit: (PTB) From fundamental physics related to Einstein’s special theory of relativity to fundamentals of metrological applications in the range of thousandths of micrometers (i.e. nanometers) – the bandwidth of this year’s Helmholtz Prize is considerable. The Helmholtz Prize, which recognizes outstanding scientific and

IMAGE: Comparison of computed peak values of THz emission and photocurrent with experimental data. view more  Credit: @2020 American Chemical Society A team of researchers from Osaka University, TU Wien, Nanyang Technological University, Rice University, University of Alberta and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale comes closer to unraveling the physics of quasiparticles in carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs),

IMAGE: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher Dr. Chris Arnusch in his lab at the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research in Israel. view more  Credit: (Photo Credit: Dr. Chris Arnusch/BGU) BEER-SHEVA, Israel/NEW YORK…April 20, 2020 – With the worldwide focus on coronavirus prevention and transmission, a new type of air-filter that self-sterilizes and decontaminates is

For years, researchers have searched for the working principles of self-assembly that can build a cell (complex biological organism) as well as a crystal (far simpler inorganic material) in the same way. Now, a team of scientists in Turkey has demonstrated the fundamental principles of a universal self-assembly process acting on a range of materials

IMAGE: Graphene Nanomesh view more  Credit: Hiroshi Mizuta, JAIST Researchers at Japan advanced institute of science and technology (JAIST) have successfully fabrication the suspended graphene nanomesh in a large area by the helium ion beam microscopy. 6nm diameter nanopores were pattern on the 1.2 um long and 500 nm wide suspended graphene uniformly. By systematically controlling

IMAGE: Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have received federal funding for a rapid COVID-19 test using a newly developed technology called plasmonic-fluor…. view more  Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have received federal funding for

IMAGE: When supplying energy the method of its delivery is as important as its quantity. You probably won’t manage to boil the water for your tea with a cigarette lighter. Here,… view more  Credit: Source: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski If we were talking about food, most experts would choose the former, but in the case of