Month: May 2020

Most technologies today rely on devices that transport energy in the form of light, radio, or mechanical waves. However, these wave-guiding channels are susceptible to disorder and damage, either in manufacturing or after they are deployed in harsh environments. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering have experimentally demonstrated a

Louisiana State University is leading an innovative $20 million project that will introduce new technologies and materials to boost a range of manufacturing industries, with federal support from the National Science Foundation, or NSF. 3-D printing technology holds the potential to reinvent the manufacturing industry, but the materials currently available do not meet the needs

IMAGE: Professor Anita Ho-Baillie with an earlier prototype perovskite solar cell. view more  Credit: UNSW Australian scientists have for the first time produced a new generation of experimental solar energy cells that pass strict International Electrotechnical Commission testing standards for heat and humidity. The research findings, an important step towards commercial viability of perovskite solar cells,

IMAGE: A replaceable nanoporous membrane, illustrated above, attached to an N95 mask filters out particles the size of SARS-CoV-2 (purple circles), allowing only clean air (blue circles) through. view more  Credit: ACS Nano 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c03976 Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there’s been a worldwide shortage of face masks — particularly, the N95 ones worn by

Researchers from the University of Surrey have revealed their new biodegradable motion sensor – paving the way for implanted nanotechnology that could help future sports professionals better monitor their movements to aid rapid improvements, or help caregivers remotely monitor people living with dementia. In a paper published by Nano Energy, a team from Surrey’s Advanced

As the cell’s protein factory, the ribosome is the only natural machine that manufactures its own parts. That is why understanding how the machine, itself, is made, could unlock the door to everything from understanding how life develops to designing new methods of drug production. An intensive, long research effort at the Weizmann Institute of

IMAGE: Antibacterial technologies are being developed to stop the spread of viral diseases. view more  Credit: Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay Next-gen nano technologies that can prevent infection and diagnose disease are set to transform the medical industry as this important UniSA research is awarded more than $2 million dollars under the National Health and

IMAGE: OU professor Arne Schwettmann works on a laser-cooling apparatus. view more  Credit: Photo by Hugh Scott. Courtesy of Sooner Magazine, University of Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma professors Arne Schwettmann and Grant Biedermann recently received a research award to investigate applications of what Albert Einstein called “spooky action at a distance” from the Defense Established Program

IMAGE: Artistic visualisation: monolayer of 2D material — molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2) is grown by directing molecular beams of selenium (yellow) and molybdenum (blue) on atomically flat hexagonal boron nitride substrate. Thanks… view more  Credit: Source: UW Physics, A. Bogucki, W. Pacuski For the first time, monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides with excellent optical properties were grown.

IMAGE: A microscopic view of spiny pollen from a native wild dandelion species in the southern Rocky Mountains. view more  Credit: University of Missouri Have pollen. Must travel. Over 80% of the world’s flowering plants must reproduce in order to produce new flowers, according to the U.S. Forest Service. This process involves the transfer of pollen

For engineers developing new materials or protective coatings, there are billions of different possibilities to sort through. Lab tests or even detailed computer simulations to determine their exact properties, such as toughness, can take hours, days, or more for each variation. Now, a new artificial intelligence-based approach developed at MIT could reduce that to a

IMAGE: Diagram of low-cost, large-scale metamaterial printing process through moldable nanomaterials formed from nanoparticle composite view more  Credit: Junsuk Rho (POSTECH) Zombies or enemies flashing right before your eyes and the dizzying feeling of standing on the edge of a cliff using virtual reality and augmented reality (AR and VR) are no longer exclusive to the

IMAGE: A wearable, non invasive Vitamin C sensor could provide a new, highly personalized option for users to track their daily nutritional intake and dietary adherence view more  Credit: University of California San Diego A team at the University of California San Diego has developed a wearable, non invasive Vitamin C sensor that could provide a

For decades, scientists have explored the use of liposomes — hollow spheres made of lipid bilayers — to deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumor cells. But drugs can sometimes leak out of liposomes before they reach their destination, reducing the dose received by the tumor and causing side effects in healthy tissues. Now, researchers report in

EAST LANSING, Mich. – What if doctors could not only diagnose a COVID-19 infection but identify which patients are at the greatest risk of death before any major complications arise? One Michigan State University scientist believes nanotechnology may be the answer. In a new paper, Morteza Mahmoudi, assistant professor in the Department of Radiology Nanoscience

IMAGE: Massively multiplexed submicron particle patterning in acoustically driven oscillating nanocavities view more  Credit: SUTD Acoustofluidics is the fusion of acoustics and fluid mechanics which provides a contact-free, rapid and effective manipulation of fluids and suspended particles. The applied acoustic wave can produce a non-zero time-averaged pressure field to exert an acoustic radiation force on particles