Month: March 2021

Nanobots are machines whose components are at the nano-scale (one millionth of a millimetre), and can be designed in such a way that they have the ability to move autonomously in fluids. Although they are still in the research and development phase, very significant advances are being made to make nanorobots a reality in the

IMAGE: Professor Rustem Valiullin with a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer. view more  Credit: Photo: Swen Reichhold, Leipzig University He and his research group have found a way to more precisely determine the properties of these materials, because they can better account for the underlying disorder. Their article has been designated “ACS Editors’ Choice” by the editors

Hydrogen is a pollution-free energy source when it’s extracted from water using sunlight instead of fossil fuels. But current strategies for “splitting” or breaking apart water molecules with catalysts and light require the introduction of chemical additives to expedite the process. Now, researchers reporting in ACS ES&T Engineering have developed a catalyst that destroys medications

The snow may be melting, but it is leaving pollution behind in the form of micro- and nano-plastics according to a McGill study that was recently published in Environmental Pollution. The pollution is largely due to the relatively soluble plastics found in antifreeze products (polyethylene glycols) that can become airborne and picked up by the

IMAGE: A diagram of a nanowire cross-section shows the interaction between atoms in the nanowire core. Yellow atoms: germanium; red atoms: chromium; purple atoms around the outside of the yellow-red connections:… view more  Credit: Ranjit Pati/Michigan Tech The electron is one of the fundamental particles in nature we read about in school. Its behavior holds clues

IMAGE: Drug delivery reseracher Kevi Li is a professor and pharmaceutical scientist at the University of Cincinnati’s James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy. view more  Credit: University of Cincinnati Getting poked in the eye with a sharp object is a cringeworthy thought. However, many patients with posterior eye diseases — back of the eye diseases such

IMAGE: Laser-illuminated nano-tip excites the acoustic graphene plasmon in the layer between the graphene and the gold/alumina. view more  Credit: Professor Min Seok Jang / KAIST KAIST researchers and their collaborators at home and abroad have successfully demonstrated a new methodology for direct near-field optical imaging of acoustic graphene plasmon fields. This strategy will provide a

PITTSBURGH (March 16, 2021) … During the swarming of birds or fish, each entity coordinates its location relative to the others, so that the swarm moves as one larger, coherent unit. Fireflies on the other hand coordinate their temporal behavior: within a group, they eventually all flash on and off at the same time and

IMAGE: Transmission electron microscope images of gold nanospheres (A and B) and nanostars (C and D) conjugated with lipase CaLB, and spectra (E) of gold nanospheres (red curve) and nanostars (blue… view more  Credit: Heloise Ribeiro de Barros/IQ-USP The activity of enzymes in industrial processes, laboratories, and living beings can be remotely controlled using light. This

IMAGE: Zakya H. Kafafi has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. She serves as Distinguished Research Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of… view more  Credit: Lehigh University Zakya H. Kafafi, Distinguished Research Fellow within the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science at Lehigh University, was

Research led by the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has identified a material that could help tackle speed and energy, the two biggest challenges for computers of the future. Research in the field of light-based computing – using light instead of electricity for computation to go beyond the limits of today’s computers –

A Rochester Institute of Technology faculty member has earned a prestigious National Science Foundation award to conduct fundamental physics research on complex materials in solid oxide fuel cells. Assistant Professor Pratik Dholabhai from RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and grant for his five-year project. Dholabhai

Researchers from Louisiana State University have introduced a smart quantum technology for the spatial mode correction of single photons. In a paper featured on the cover of the March 2021 issue of Advanced Quantum Technologies, the authors exploit the self-learning and self-evolving features of artificial neural networks to correct the distorted spatial profile of single

IMAGE: The built environment, from roads to sidewalks to parking lots, affects the water cycle and climate. Scientists at ORNL have explored the use of statistical relationships for evaluating representations of… view more  Credit: Andy Sproles/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Modeling – Urban climate impacts Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have identified a statistical relationship

Copper nanomaterials with a cubic shape so perfect that they form neatly aligned stacks when brought together have been created by researchers at KAUST. The cuboid copper nanoclusters, developed by rational design, are a new member of an exotic nanomaterial family that has shown many promising properties but has remained very hard to make. “Copper