Month: March 2021

IMAGE: Modeling the behavior of 2D materials under pressure view more  Credit: ACS Nano (2021). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c10609 Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology (CEST) have developed a method for modeling the behavior of 2D materials under pressure. The research will help create pressure sensors based on silicene or other 2D materials. The

Last year, a team of biologists and computer scientists from Tufts University and the University of Vermont (UVM) created novel, tiny self-healing biological machines from frog cells called “Xenobots” that could move around, push a payload, and even exhibit collective behavior in the presence of a swarm of other Xenobots. Get ready for Xenobots 2.0.

IMAGE: At left, an experimental 3D atomic model of a metallic glass nanoparticle, 8 nanometers in diameter. Right, the 3D atomic packing of a representative ordered supercluster in the metallic glass… view more  Credit: Yao Yang and Jianwei “John ” Miao/UCLA Glass, rubber and plastics all belong to a class of matter called amorphous solids. And

IMAGE: Phonon dispersion of diamond calculated at the variational Monte Carlo level by TurboRVB view more  Credit: Kousuke Nakano from JAIST Ishikawa, Japan – The focus and ultimate goal of computational research in materials science and condensed matter physics is to solve the Schrödinger equation–the fundamental equation describing how electrons behave inside matter–exactly (without resorting to

IMAGE: This is Henry de Vries, joint first author of the Nature Communications paper. He prepared and executed most of the simulations for this paper. view more  Credit: University of Groningen The nucleus is the headquarters of a cell and molecules constantly move across the nuclear membrane through pores. The transport of these molecules is both

IMAGE: Songbird with active implant with the capability of broadcasting high resolution temperature readings and cell type specific neuronal stimulation view more  Credit: University of Arizona Gutruf Lab The human brain regions responsible for speech and communication keep our world running by allowing us to do things like talk with friends, shout for help in an

HARWELL, UK (30 March 2021) The Faraday Institution has announced a £22.6m commitment to build on its momentum in four key research challenges: extending battery life, battery modelling, recycling and reuse and solid-state batteries. In doing so, and by strengthening the organisation’s commercialisation team and strategy, it is further focusing on those areas of battery

IMAGE: Eric Decker, professor of food science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, received two lifetime achievement awards. view more  Credit: UMass Amherst Eric Decker, professor of food science, has recently received the two top awards in his field – the American Oil Chemists’ Society’s (AOCS) Supelco/Nicholas Pelick Research Award and the Institute of Food Technologist’s

IMAGE: Schematic illustration of the optical response of a dense atomic medium seen by traditional theories vs. the RG theory view more  Credit: ICFO Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon cover, voted the greatest classical rock album of all time, intended to portray the prism and dispersion of light into a rainbow as a certain

IMAGE: (a) Change in sheet resistance (electrical resistivity per unit area of material surface)–an indicator of a superconducting transition–as a function of temperature and magnetic field. (b) Change in critical magnetic… view more  Credit: NIMS Superconductivity is known to be easily destroyed by strong magnetic fields. NIMS, Osaka University and Hokkaido University have jointly discovered that

IMAGE: MIT engineers have devised a novel technique for imaging biological samples down to a resolution of 9 nanometers. They developed a new type of hydrogel that maintains a more uniform… view more  Credit: Ella Maru Studio CAMBRIDGE, MA – Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers have devised a technique for imaging biological samples with

IMAGE: (a) Raster scanning: Trace scanning (red line) and retrace scanning (blue line) of the sample stage, (b) directions of tip scanning relative to sample in trace and retrace scanning processes, (c)… view more  Credit: Kanazawa University High-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) is an imaging technique that can be used for visualizing biological processes, for example

IMAGE: from left: The physicists Gerald Kothleitner (TU Graz), Ulrich Hohenester (Uni Graz) and Georg Haberfehlner (TU Graz), together with French experts, have succeeded for the first time in visualizing temporal… view more  Credit: Lunghammer – TU Graz Whether for microscopy, data storage or sensor technology, many advanced technological applications that require specific functions rely on

IMAGE: A transmission electron microscope image shows the interlayer spacing of turbostratic graphene produced at Rice University by flashing carbon black from discarded rubber tires with a jolt of electricity. view more  Credit: Tour Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON – (March 29, 2021) – This could be where the rubber truly hits the road. Rice University scientists

IMAGE: The new non-volatile RAM, called ULTRARAM™, is a working implementation of so-called ‘universal memory’, promising all the advantages of DRAM and flash, with none of the drawbacks. view more  Credit: Manus Hayne A new type of universal computer memory – ULTRARAM™ – has taken a step closer towards development with a successful experiment by Lancaster