Nanotechnology/Micromachines

UMass Amherst food scientists awarded grant for innovative approach to improving sensory qualities of plant-based foodCredit: UMass Amherst A team of University of Massachusetts Amherst food scientists has been awarded a grant from the…

Biochemists have created "smart" proteins that function inside human cells by turning genes on and offCredit: MolGraphics/UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design The same basic tools that allow computers to function are now…

Sustainable energy storage is in great demand. Researchers at Uppsala University have therefore developed an all-organic proton battery that can be charged in a matter of seconds. The battery can be charged and discharged over 500 times…

Startup NanoMosaic to commercialize high-sensitivity tool for protein detection and quantification Cambridge, Mass. - A Boston-based startup company, NanoMosaic LLC, intends to commercialize a high-throughput, high-sensitivity platform for…

Credit: Haifa Shen, Houston Methodist HOUSTON-(April 1, 2020)-We've all been warned about the dangers of triglycerides, the fat stored in your blood. But what if that unhealthy fat could effectively transport oral medication to…

Sustainable: KIT-coordinated transnational network studies chemical signals between pathogen and plant -- EU funding in the amount of EUR 500,000Credit: Alexandra Wolf, KIT Increasing drought and heat seriously affect plants.…

Nanostructured polymer foil appears white without environmentally hazardous titanium dioxide -- Beetle's chitin scales used as a modelCredit: Julia Syurik, KIT Polymer foils that are extremely thin and characterized by a high light…

New paradigm for "auto-tuning" quantum bits could overcome major engineering hurdle.Credit: B. Hayes / NIST A high-end race car engine needs all its components tuned and working together precisely to deliver top-quality…

European Research Council funds Peter Sanders' 'ScAlBox' project by an Advanced GrantCredit: Heidi Offterdinger Within his "ScAlBox" project, computer scientist Professor Peter Sanders of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)…

Bacteria on nanowires convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to organic building blocksCredit: UC Berkeley photo by Peidong Yang If humans ever hope to colonize Mars, the settlers will need to manufacture on-planet a huge…

The ERC has awarded one of its prestigious Advanced Grants to the leader of the Carbon Bionanotechnology group and Ikerbasque professor Maurizio Prato. The e-DOTS project is aiming to synthesise luminescent carbon nanoparticles with useful…

Principal researcher Soon Moon Jeong at DGIST developed in-plane electro-luminescent(EL) technology that inserts electrodes into a luminous layerCredit: DGIST Dr. Soon Moon Jeong's research team in the Division of Energy…

Credit: Ola Joensen Entanglement, a powerful form of correlation among quantum systems, is an important resource for quantum computing. Researchers from the Quantum Optomechanics group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of…

The chip allows precise control of oxygen and other conditions to observe cardiac cell behaviorCredit: Brian Timko, Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (March 30, 2020)--Researchers led by biomedical engineers at Tufts…

Skoltech scientists developed highly sensitive sensors based on cobalt oxide nanoflakes which are capable of detecting various alcohols in the air. The new sensors can be used for both medical diagnostics and detection of toxic methanol…

Rice University calculations show they could be highly useful for solar panelsCredit: Yakobson Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 27, 2020) - One nanotube could be great for electronics applications, but…

New method for generating quantum-entangled photons in a spectral range of light previously inaccessible developedCredit: Michael Kues/PQT An international team with the participation of Prof. Dr. Michael Kues from the Cluster…

Scientists have developed a way of extracting a richer palette of colours from the available spectrum by harnessing disordered patterns inspired by nature that would typically be seen as black. Colours that we see in nature often come…

Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, used a sophisticated physical model to simulate the behavior of fluids…

Credit: University Rostock / Alexander Szameit Professor Ronny Thomale holds a chair for theoretical condensed matter physics, the TP1, at the Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg. The discovery and theoretical description of new…