Nanotechnology/Micromachines

Credit: McMaster University HAMILTON, ON, Sept. 29, 2020 -- An international team led by current and former McMaster University researchers has developed an artificial lung to support pre-term and other newborn babies in respiratory…

Coating developed by UH professor being tested in New York CityCredit: University of Houston A physics professor from the University of Houston has developed a nanotech coating designed to allow air filters to capture airborne…

Researchers have registered the formation of silver nanoparticles in an ion-exchanged glass as a result of infrared laser irradiation.Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers from Peter the Great…

Credit: Ilias Patmanidis and Misha Pchenitchnikov Scientists typically prefer to work with ordered systems. However, a diverse team of physicists and biophysicists from the University of Groningen found that individual…

Lack of uniformity is possibly the biggest challenge in today's technology of memristor devices as it gives rise to problems like inconsistency, stochastic variability, and instability of the memory state. A uniform switching mechanism in…

A new approach to reduce fuel cell crossoverCredit: Christian Fleury The research team of INRS (Institut national de la recherche scientifique) Professor Mohamed Mohamedi has designed a green membraneless fuel cell that uses oxygen…

CIC biomaGUNE researchers have demonstrated the restoring in vivo of the connection between neurons, yielding functional resultsCredit: Author: Pedro Ramos / CIC biomaGUNE Research conducted by two groups at the Center for…

A new study conducted by SISSA and the University of Trieste shows the efficacy of carbon nanotube implants to restore motor functions and paves the way for a new therapeutic approach for spinal cord injuries A new study conducted by SISSA…

Credit: EPFL / Alain Herzog Mitochondria are present in all eukaryotic cells: in our cells, in mammalian cells, in the cells of plants and even of fungi. Mitochondria produce energy for cells to function as multicellular organisms, and…

Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers led by The University of Tokyo employed a new computer model to simulate the networks of force-carrying particles that give amorphous solids…

Metallic carbon circuit element enables work on faster, efficient carbon-based transistorsCredit: UC Berkeley image by Daniel Rizzo Transistors based on carbon rather than silicon could potentially boost computers' speed and…

Credit: Department of Organic Biomaterials,TMDU Tokyo - Many people across the globe are working hard to get the better of cancer; however cancer is always working too. Cancer cells can become resistant to the methods that have been…

Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz It is slightly smaller than two one-cent coins stacked on top of each other, is particularly energy-efficient due to its size, requires no maintenance and can be integrated in mobile devices. It is the…

These systems could potentially overcome computational hurdles faced by current digital technologiesCredit: Dr. R. Stanley Williams In the September issue of the journal Nature, scientists from Texas A&M University, Hewlett…

Credit: American Chemical Society Biofilms -- microbial communities that form slimy layers on surfaces -- are difficult to treat and remove, often because the microbes release molecules that block the entry of antibiotics and other…

Credit: Illustration: Denis Baranov, Chalmers University of Technology Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, together with colleagues in Russia and Poland, have managed to achieve ultrastrong coupling between light and…

Credit: ICFO While in a three-dimensional world, all particles must be either fermions or bosons, it is known that in fewer dimensions, the existence of particles with intermediate quantum statistics, known as anyons, is possible. Such…

New method could jump-start creation of tiny medical devices for the bodyCredit: A. Strelcov/NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method of 3D-printing gels and other soft…