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Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have revolutionized the displays industry. LEDs use electric current to produce visible light without the excess heat found in traditional light bulbs, a glow called electroluminescence. This breakthrough led to the eye-popping, high-definition viewing experience we’ve come to expect from our screens. Now, a group of physicists and chemists have developed a

IMAGE: From left, Pan Adhikari, Lawrence Coleman and Kanishka Kobbekaduwa align the ultrafast laser in the Department of Physics and Astronomy’s UPQD lab. view more  Credit: Clemson University CLEMSON, South Carolina — By using laser spectroscopy in a photophysics experiment, Clemson University researchers have broken new ground that could result in faster and cheaper energy to

IMAGE: Nanopore electrical tweezer for trapping and manipulating nano-objects in water. view more  Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan – Scientists from the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research at Osaka University fabricated nanopores in silicon dioxide, that were only 300 nm, in diameter surrounded by electrodes. These nanopores could prevent particles from entering just by applying

IMAGE: In this schematic, the teal balls represent boron and the red balls are hydrogen. view more  Credit: Northwestern University Northwestern University researchers have, for the first time, created borophane — atomically thin boron that is stable at standard temperatures and air pressures. Researchers have long been excited by the promise of borophene — a single-atom-thick

IMAGE: Novel tensegrity metamaterials by UCI and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers employ isolated compressive loop elements that are exclusively connected through a continuous network of tensile members (highlighted in magenta). view more  Credit: Jens Bauer and Cameron Crook / UCI Irvine, Calif., March 11, 2021 – Catastrophic collapse of materials and structures is the inevitable

IMAGE: Woo and her lab have designed a pencil/eraser pair to both write and erase an important sugar from proteins, a crucial step to understand how these sugars influence proteins and… view more  Credit: Kris Snibbe/Harvard University Sugar has been called “evil,” “toxic,” and “poison.” But the body needs sugars, too. Sugar molecules help cells recognize

Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM), a new hybrid imaging technique, allows us to listen to the sound of light and see the color of biological tissue itself. It can be used for live, multicontrast functional imaging, but the limited wavelength choice of most commercial lasers and the limitations of the existing scanning methods have meant that

For the first time ever, a Northwestern University-led research team has peered inside a human cell to view a multi-subunit machine responsible for regulating gene expression. Called the Mediator-bound pre-initiation complex (Med-PIC), the structure is a key player in determining which genes are activated and which are suppressed. Mediator helps position the rest of the

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