Month: March 2021

New scientific techniques are revealing the intricate role that proteins play in photosynthesis. Despite being discovered almost 300 years ago, photosynthesis still holds many unanswered questions for science, particularly the way that proteins organise themselves to convert sunlight into chemical energy and at the same time, protect plants from too much sunlight. Now a collaboration

IMAGE: First report showing genome editing in brain parenchyma using mRNA based introduction of CRISPR/Cas9. view more  Credit: 2021 Innovation Center of NanoMedicine March 10, 2021 – Kawasaki, Japan: The research group of Deputy Principal Research Scientist Dr. Satoshi Uchida (Associate Professor, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine) at the Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (Director General: Prof.

IMAGE:  “Flower-like ” microstructures forming upon a nanoporous glass monolith featuring 31nm-diameter pores. view more  Credit: Lehigh University | Thamma, Kowal, Falk, Jain An interdisciplinary research team at Lehigh University has unraveled how functional biomaterials rely upon an interfacial protein layer to transmit signals to living cells concerning their adhesion, proliferation and overall development. According

IMAGE: Thanks to sensors and artificial muscles on the microscale, future microelectronics will be able to take on complex shapes and create bioneural interfaces with sensitive biological tissue without causing damage. view more  Credit: IFW Dresden/Chemnitz University of Technology Flexible and adaptive microelectronics is considered an innovation driver for new and more effective biomedical applications. These

IMAGE: Schematic diagram of the process of material phase transition, ex-solution particle formation, and the change in catalytic activity depending on the reduction environment. view more  Credit: POSTECH Fuel cells, which are attracting attention as an eco-friendly energy source, obtain electricity and heat simultaneously through the reverse reaction of water electrolysis. Therefore, the catalyst that enhances

Effective, specific, with a reversible and non-harmful action: the identikit of the perfect biomaterial seems to correspond to graphene flakes, the subject of a new study carried out by SISSA – International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) of Barcelona and the National Graphene Institute of the University

IMAGE: The structure and performance of 2D perovskite LEDs. view more  Credit: Figure source: DOI number: 10.1038/s41467-021-21522-8 Energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been used in our everyday life for many decades. But the quest for better LEDs, offering both lower costs and brighter colours, has recently drawn scientists to a material called perovskite. A recent joint-research

IMAGE: An example of an organ-on -chip, a plate with integrated microchannels in which complex tissues of living cells can be studied. view more  Credit: Photo: Bart van Overbeeke, TU Eindhoven. Scientists are pushing ahead building ‘organ-on-chips’, small chips with human cells, which are useful, for example, for studying cancerous metastases in the bloodstream or the

IMAGE: Researchers at The University of Tokyo use the mathematics of adaptive learning and artificial intelligence to describe how T helper cells adjust the response of the vertebrate immune system, which… view more  Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of

IMAGE: A porous carbon aerogel improves the low-temperature performance of supercapacitors, which could help supply energy for space missions and polar activities. view more  Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04780 NASA’s Perseverance Rover recently made a successful landing on Mars, embarking on a two-year mission to seek signs of ancient life and collect samples.

Material behaviors depend on many things including not just the composition of the material but also the arrangement of its molecular parts. For the first time, researchers have found a way to coax carbon nanotubes into creating moiré patterns. Such structures could be useful in materials research, in particular in the field of superconducting materials.

IMAGE: Liver microtissues growing as multicellular spheroids in custom-designed microwells. The spheroids are used in modeling non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. view more  Credit: Khademhosseini Lab (LOS ANGELES) – Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most prevalent chronic liver disease worldwide. It is found in 30% of people in developed countries and occurs in approximately 25%

IMAGE: New contact lens technology to help diagnose and monitor medical conditions may soon be ready for clinical trials. The team enabled commercial soft contact lenses to be a bioinstrumentation tool… view more  Credit: Purdue University/Chi Hwan Lee WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – New contact lens technology to help diagnose and monitor medical conditions may soon be

IMAGE: Front Cover Image of ACS Nano Special Virtual Issue that Highlights Innovations at KAIST view more  Credit: KAIST KAIST’s innovative academic achievements and R&D efforts for addressing the world’s greatest challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic were featured in ACS Nano as part of its special virtual issue commemorating the 50th anniversary of KAIST. The

IMAGE: Georgia Tech is building on its AutoRally platform to further self-driving vehicle research for TRI. view more  Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of 16 academic institutions selected for Toyota Research Institute’s (TRI) collaborative research program. Founded in 2015 and now in its second wave of investment with top

IMAGE: Basic concept of THz-field-driven scanning tunneling luminescence (THz-STL) spectroscopy. Luminescence from a localized plasmon can be induced by THz-field-driven inelastically tunneled electrons. view more  Credit: Yokohama National University Since the early 2010s, ultrafast probing of materials at atomic-level resolution has been enabled by terahertz scanning tunneling microscopes (THz-STM). But these devices can’t detect the dissipation

IMAGE: Diamond magnetometer with nitrogen-vacancy defects being optically initialized using green laser light view more  Credit: photo/©: Arne Wickenbrock, JGU Obtaining a precise understanding of magnetic structures is one of the main objectives of solid-state physics. Significant research is currently being undertaken in this field, the aim being to develop future data processing applications that use