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IMAGE: IoT sensor captures and detects trace amounts of antigens on a nano-film surface view more  Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Overview: Associate Professor Kazuhiro Takahashi and Assistant Professor Yong-Joon Choi of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology have developed a chip that can

Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed new and improved probes, known as positive controls, that could make it easier to validate rapid, point-of-care diagnostic tests for COVID-19 across the globe. The positive controls, made from virus-like particles, are stable and easy to manufacture. Researchers say the controls have the potential to

IMAGE: As biosensing and bio-imaging research seeks to look deep inside tissue to the intracellular level miniaturising laser devices poses significant challenges for these nanoscale biological applications. view more  Credit: Jiajia Zhou Lasers are used in a range of everyday devices, harnessing the power of light molecules, photons, – lined up to form highly concentrated beams

Japan — Of all the exciting topics in the field of material and biochemical research, one of the hottest by far is unraveling the mysteries of spider silk. Often claimed to be ‘stronger than steel’, the protein-based fibers have the potential to change the material world as we know it. However, despite decades of research,

IMAGE: Imagine shrinking those barcodes a million times, from millimetre to nanometre scale, so that they could be used inside living cells to label, identify and track the building blocks of… view more  Credit: University of Technology Sydney Using barcodes to label and identify everyday items is as familiar as a trip to the supermarket. Imagine

IMAGE: Skyrmion lattice formation. view more  Credit: FEFU press office Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with international collaborators propose direct magnetic writing of skyrmions, i.e. magnetic quasiparticles, and skyrmion lattices, within which it is possible to encode, transmit, process information, and produce topological patterns with a resolution of less than 100 nanometers. This brings

IMAGE: An image of the in-droplet cell separation microfluidic chip, showing the microfluidic channels and electrodes. Enlarged view shows a host cell and pathogenic bacteria cells being separated to top and… view more  Credit: Dr. Arum Han/Texas A&M University College of Engineering To develop effective therapeutics against pathogens, scientists need to first uncover how they attack

IMAGE: Reconstructed vortex rings inside a magnetic micropillar. view more  Credit: Credit: Claire Donnelly Magnets often harbour hidden beauty. Take a simple fridge magnet: Somewhat counterintuitively, it is ‘sticky’ on one side but not the other. The secret lies in the way the magnetisation is arranged in a well-defined pattern within the material. More intricate magnetization

IMAGE: Atomic-scale image of two interacting donors in silicon view more  Credit: CQC2T Researchers from the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) working with Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) have located the ‘sweet spot’ for positioning qubits in silicon to scale up atom-based quantum processors. Creating quantum bits, or qubits, by precisely placing

IMAGE: Kevin Yager at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials, where he leads the Electronic Nanomaterials Group. Yager is part of the fourth cohort of the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership… view more  Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY–Kevin Yager–leader of the Electronic Nanomaterials Group at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a U.S. Department of

Holography is best known for its ability to produce 3D images (holograms) by recording an interference pattern of light scattered by an object with some reference wave. This simple optical experiment records the amplitude as well as the normally invisible phase of the underlying electric field. Once known, this information can be used to simultaneously

IMAGE: Tracking of Live-cell SERS individual particles. The tracks of each of the particles are color coded to show the respective z-positions within the volume. view more  Credit: ICFO/URV Raman spectroscopy is widely used in analytical sciences to identify molecules via their structural fingerprint. In the biological context the Raman response provides a valuable label-free specific

IMAGE: Detecting pathogens without taking samples: this could be possible in the future with carbon nanotubes developed by a team led by Professor Sebastian Kruß (right) and Robert Nißler…. view more  Credit: Alexander Spreinat Researchers from Bochum, Göttingen, Duisburg and Cologne have developed a new method for detecting bacteria and infections. They use fluorescent nanosensors to