and help to improve processes such as preparation of inorganic ceramics and thin-film solar cells. The experiments were performed with the help of Yu-chen Karen Chen-Wiegart, Feng Wang, Jun Wang and their co-workers at Beamline X8c
As part of the precision medicine initiative at the Cancer Institute of New jersey, investigators--which include colleagues from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical school and RUCDR Infinite Biologics, the world's largest university-based biorepository,
Robert Wood Johnson Medical school. Utilizing the invasive breast cancer data set of 962 cases in The Cancer Genome Atlas
at Robert Wood Johnson Medical school.""Advances in genomic sequencing are helping clinicians go beyond a'one size fits all'approach for treatment.""
and associate professor of medicine and pharmacology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical school l
#Natural reparative capacity of teeth elucidated These results are published in the journal Stem Cells. The tooth is a mineralised organ, implanted in the mouth by a root.
which is covered in turn by an even harder tissue, the enamel. When a dental lesion appears,
#From metal to insulator and back again Metals are compounds that are capable of conducting the flow of electrons that make up an electric current.
At low temperatures, all materials can be classified as either insulators or metals. New work homes in on the physics underlying the recently discovered fact that some metals stop being metallic under pressure.
New work from Carnegie's Russell Hemley and Ivan Naumov hones in on the physics underlying the recently discovered fact that some metals stop being metallic under pressure.
Their work is published in Physical Review Letters. Metals are compounds that are capable of conducting the flow of electrons that make up an electric current.
Other materials, called insulators, are not capable of conducting an electric current. At low temperatures, all materials can be classified as either insulators or metals.
Insulators can be pushed across the divide from insulator to metal by tuning their surrounding conditions,
particularly by placing them under pressure. It was believed long that once such a material was converted into a metal under pressure,
it would stay that way forever as the pressure was increased. This idea goes back to the birth of quantum mechanics in the early decades of the last century.
But it was discovered recently that certain groups of metals become insulating under pressure-a remarkable finding that was thought not previously possible.
Hemley and Naumov wanted to determine the unifying physics framework underlying these unexpected metal-to-insulator-to-metal transitions."
when metals will become insulators under pressure, as well as the reverse, the when-insulators-can-become-metals transition,
"Naumov said. The onsets of these transitions can be determined by the positions of electrons within the basic structure of the material.
Hemley and Naumov demonstrated that for a metal to become an insulator, these reduced-spacing overlaps must be organized in a specific kind of asymmetry that was recognized not previously.
#Scientists create cheaper magnetic material for cars, wind turbines Karl A. Gschneidner and fellow scientists at the U s. Department of energy's Ames Laboratory have created a new magnetic alloy that is an alternative to traditional rare-earth permanent magnets.
The new alloy--a potential replacement for high-performance permanent magnets found in automobile engines and wind turbines--eliminates the use of one of the scarcest and costliest rare earth elements, dysprosium,
and instead uses cerium, the most abundant rare earth. The result, an alloy of neodymium, iron and boron co-doped with cerium and cobalt
is a less expensive material with properties that are competitive with traditional sintered magnets containing dysprosium.
and Mahmud Khan (now at Miami University) demonstrated that the cerium-containing alloy's intrinsic coercivity--the ability of a magnetic material to resist demagnetization--far exceeds that of dysprosium-containing magnets at high temperatures.
which an alloy loses its permanent magnet properties. But the research team discovered that co-doping with cobalt allowed them to substitute cerium for dysprosium without losing desired magnetic properties.
It's a lot like attaching a drop of solder on the string of a guitar--it changes its vibration frequency and also its tone."
"A common way to decipher molecular structures is to use x-ray crystallography. This complicated method involves purifying and crystallising the molecules,
TUW has developed therefore new polymers.""These are so-called thermoplastic polyurethanes, "explains Robert Liska from the Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry of Vienna University of Technology."
"By selecting very specific molecular building blocks we have succeeded in synthesizing a polymer with the desired properties."
"A thin polymer thread spun into tubesto produce the vascular prostheses, polymer solutions were spun in an electrical field to form very fine threads and wound onto a spool."
"The wall of these artificial blood vessels is very similar to that of natural ones, "says Heinz Schima of the Medical University of Vienna.
The polymer fabric is slightly porous and so, initially, allows a small amount of blood to permeate through
and this enriches the wall with growth factors. This encourages the migration of endogenous cells.
"The researchers resorted to the computational approach because of the difficulty of capturing the structure via X-ray crystallography or single-particle transmission electron microscopy, two of the most common imaging methods at the atomic scale.
"The electrical performance of our materials was comparable to that of reported results from single crystals of molybdenum disulfide,
but instead of a tiny crystal, here we have a 4-inch wafer, "Park said. Molybdenum disulfide,
They found that their crystals grew perfectly stitched together, but only with a little bit of hydrogen and in completely dry conditions, for example.
but it suffers from the difficulty of growing large-size high-quality single crystals, making it difficult and expensive to incorporate in commercial detectors.
Moreover, the detector materials need to have excellent carrier transport efficiency to make sure radiation-generated charges effectively diffuse through the crystal
The platform is a disposable flexible polyester chip with implanted electrodes. HIV-1 antibodies are added to whole blood
a polyester film with microfluidic channels to capture the T cells, and a detection technology known as lensless shadow imaging.
A single drop of whole blood from a fingerprick was applied to the polyester film, where capillary forces pull the blood into the microfluidic channels.
The shadow of the CD4+T cells that adhere to the channels can then be visualized on the polyester film.
In past research Salahuddin and his colleagues found that directing electrical current through the rare metal tantalum creates polarity in magnets without an external magnetic field.
strain develops in the diamond's crystal structure. This in turn, influences the spin of the electrons,
Lithium metal, for example, can store about 10 times as much energy per gram, but is extremely dangerous,
and it was seen by some as a black sheep of the transition metal dichalcogenides TMD) family and purposefully ignored.
A TMD crystal follows an MX2 format: there is one transition metal, represented by M m can be Tungsten, Molybdenum, etc.)
and two chalcogenides, the X2 (Sulfur, Selenium, or Tellurium. These atoms form a thin, molecular sandwich with the one metal and two chalcogenides,
and depending on their fabrication method can exist in several slightly different shaped atomic arrangements. The overwhelming majority of microchips that exist in electronics now are made from silicon,
and make one 2d crystal that was composed of the semiconducting 2h-Mote2 and the metallic 1t'-Mote2.
and Mechanical Science & Engineering Professor Andrew Alleyne, embedded QDS in novel polymer materials that retain strong quantum efficiency.
They then used electrohydrodynamic jet (e-jet) printing technology to precisely print the QD-embedded polymers onto photonic crystal structures.
Key to the process is the strong Van der waals interaction that exists between graphene and hexagonal boron nitride, another 2d material within
Thanks to strong Van der waals interactions between graphene and boron nitride, CVD graphene can be separated from the copper
Raman spectroscopy and transport measurements on the graphene/boron nitride heterostructures reveals high electron mobilities comparable with those observed in similar assemblies based on exfoliated graphene.
a technology applied to create electronic devices on a roll of flexible plastics or metal foils.
"By'sandwiching'one or two atomic layers of a transition metal like titanium, between monoatomic layers of another metal, such as molybdenum,
as well as superstrong composites--like the ones used in phone cases and body armor. Each new combination of atom-thick layers presents new properties
"Think of MXENE synthesis like separating layers of wood by dunking a plywood sheet into a chemical that dissolves the glue,
An Elemental Impasse Four years later, the researchers have worked their way through the section of the Periodic table with elements called"transition metals"
it can use this method to make as many as 25 new materials with combinations of transition metals, such as molybdenum and titanium,
"Anasori plans to make more materials by replacing titanium with other metals, such as vanadium, niobium,
structural composites and many other fields, enabling a new level of engineering on the atomic scale
which recur repeatedly to form objects such as snowflakes, ferns and cauliflowers, making their structure appear more complex than it often actually is.
researchers in Brunger's laboratory at the Stanford School of medicine found a way to grow crystals of the complex.
They used a robotic system developed at SSRL to study the crystals at SLAC's LCLS, an X-ray laser that is one of the brightest sources of X-rays on the planet.
The researchers combined and analyzed hundreds of X-ray images from about 150 protein crystals to reveal the atomic-scale details of the joined structure.
Rare and expensive metals such as platinum can serve as effective catalysts, but in its work the team discovered that it could create a much cheaper,
and safety of the new system is the special plastic membrane that separates the gases
The same design principle can be extended easily to other materials beyond silicon, such as metals glass ceramics and plastics.
The authors believe this work will open the search for a new, unified model of wetting physics that explains wetting phenomena on rough surfaces such as theirs.
The SUP was confirmed also to contain the computationally designed structural features through examination of the protein crystal structure.
and Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2009cb918500) and the National Natural science Foundation of China (21173013,11021463) to L. L. This research used the Advanced Photon Source for protein crystallography data collection
However, the resulting composite interface is prone to collapse under external pressure. Nanometer-size textures should facilitate more resilient coatings owing to geometry and confinement effects at the nanoscale.
The standard approach to squeezing light involves firing an intense laser beam at a material, usually a nonlinear crystal,
"And it can stick tightly to stainless steel, even when the surgical instrument is cleaned.""As a result, he said,
The prototype consists of copper wires insulated with PVC tubes. On one end, the copper wires are hooked up to an external analyzer and on the other end,
in order to detect the presence of hemozoin crystals, Coté notes. Hemozoin crystals are the byproduct of the malaria parasite
and they occur in the blood of an infected host. As polarized light bounces off of these crystals,
they appear as tiny bright dots when observed through the phone's camera lens--enabling an instant,
and manufacturing the tiny metal connections that go into flexible electronics. The metal has to undergo severe stretching
and bending while continuing to conduct electricity. Manufacturers have used so far tiny metal springs that can stretch
a fairly inexpensive metal compared to gold, and periodically bonded it to a plastic layer commonly used in electronics,
it was actually the plastic layer that failed, not the metal.""This is a quantum improvement in stretchable electronics
the researchers also want to better understand the metal's behavior.""A metal film doubling its size
"We have proposed a model for the stretchy metal but much work is needed to validate it.
Although superconductivity has already been observed in intercalated bulk graphite--three-dimensional crystals layered with alkali metal atoms,
Graphene, roughly 200 times stronger than steel by weight, is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern.
and composites industries. The researchers, which include colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research through the joint Max-Planck-UBC Centre for Quantum Materials,
Although superconductivity has already been observed in intercalated bulk graphite--three-dimensional crystals layered with alkali metal atoms,
Graphene, roughly 200 times stronger than steel by weight, is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern.
and composites industries. The researchers, which include colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research through the joint Max-Planck-UBC Centre for Quantum Materials,
the plastic pulled apart into a basic mesh. The interconnected strips of Kapton tilt in proportion to how much the mesh is stretched, to an accuracy of about one degree.
however, the ion beam destroys the crystal structure of the gallium arsenide and thus its semiconducting properties. Dr. Facsko's group at the HZDR's Ion beam Center therefore uses the opportunity to heat the sample during ion bombardment.
but also knock individual atoms entirely out of the crystal structure. Since the volatile arsenic does not remain bound on the surface,
because they contain iridium, a silvery-white transition metal. New transition metal complexes do not easily breakdown,
which is important for delivery of antibiotics to where they are needed to fight infections in the body.
"So far our findings show that these compounds are safer than other compounds made from transition metals,
A spin wave is caused by a perturbation of the local magnetisation direction in a magnetic material.
the antenna is made from two metal plates placed in parallel to form a waveguide. One of the plates has a small slit in it.
and photoluminescence to optically probe the molecular structure of the phthalocyanine crystals.""Marrying these two techniques together is new;
and the boundaries in the crystals influence the movement of excitons. It's these boundaries that form a"barrier for exciton diffusion,
and materials science professor Randy Headrick to successfully form films with jumbo-sized crystal grains and"small angle boundaries."
#Tiny silica particles could be used to repair damaged teeth, research shows Researchers at the University of Birmingham have shown how the development of coated silica nanoparticles could be used in restorative treatment of sensitive teeth
and preventing the onset of tooth decay. The study, published in the Journal of Dentistry, shows how sub-micron silica particles can be prepared to deliver important compounds into damaged teeth through tubules in the dentine.
The tiny particles can be bound to compounds ranging from calcium tooth building materials to antimicrobials that prevent infection.
When your outer enamel is breached, the exposure of these tubules is really noticeable. If you drink something cold,
"The aim of restorative agents is to increase the mineral content of both the enamel and dentine,
However, the Birmingham team turned to sub-micron silica particles that had been prepared with a surface coating to reduce the chance of aggregation.
"These silica particles are available in a range of sizes, from nanometre to sub-micron,
including brain tissue from surgical steel. Cleaning instruments between patients is critical to avoid transmission of agents leading to conditions such as Creutzfeldt-jakob disease.
and 3d printing techniques to create a custom silicone guide implanted with biochemical cues to help nerve regeneration.
#Silicone vaginal rings deliver antiviral drugs, protect women against HIV Researchers at University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne,
France have succeeded in developing a vaginal silicone ring that delivers molecules that act on both HIV and herpes virus.
despite the fact that silicone is a hydrophobic compound, "said Meriam Memmi, author of the study and Phd candidate at University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne, France.
This was possible due to the addition of a hydrophilic compound to the silicone, which allowed the drugs to be released from their reservoirs.
These preliminary results demonstrate the ability of silicone rings to continuously deliver hydrophilic antiviral drugs for a long period of time at a concentration that would be effective for neutralizing the viruses present in semen.
"The aim of our study was to develop a vaginal silicone ring that was nontoxic to the health of users
Bruno Pozzetto and of chemists from the Polymer Materials Engineering Laboratory under the supervision of Pr.
Christian Carrot, with the help of Mr. Blaise Figuereo, a silicone engineer who designed the apparatus used to create the reservoir rings s
They showed that silicone elastomers can be printed seamlessly into gradient architectures composed of soft and rigid regions.
For more than 100 years, researchers have inferred how atoms are arranged in three-dimensional space using a technique called X-ray crystallography,
which involves measuring how light waves scatter off of a crystal. However, X-ray crystallography only yields information about the average positions of many billions of atoms in the crystal
and not about individual atoms'precise coordinates.""It's like taking an average of people On earth,
"Because X-ray crystallography doesn't reveal the structure of a material on a per-atom basis,
The work, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pairs gold nanomesh with a stretchable substrate made with polydimethylsiloxane, or PDMS.
and fatigue has been a deadly disease for metals, "the researchers wrote.""We weaken the constraint of the substrate by making the interface between the Au (gold) nanomesh and PDMS slippery,
patterned silica material laid on top of a traditional solar cell. The material is transparent to the visible sunlight that powers solar cells,
#A different type of 2-D semiconductor To the growing list of two-dimensional semiconductors, such as graphene, boron nitride,
or bulk crystals for photovoltaic devices that have reached a 20-percent power conversion efficiency. Separating these hybrid materials into individual
we were able to grow uniform square-shaped 2d crystals on a flat substrate with high yield
and composition of individual 2d crystals using a variety of techniques and found they have shifted a slightly band-edge emission that could be attributed to structural relaxation.
which is shifted red slightly as compared to bulk crystals. This suggests that color-tuning could be achieved in these 2d hybrid perovskites by changing sheet thickness as well as composition via the synthesis of related materials."
"The well-defined geometry of these square-shaped 2d crystals is the mark of high quality crystallinity,
polymer coated nickel-titanium (nitinol) alloy stent frame specially designed to prevent leakage. To implant the device,
The researchers then isolated individual pores by placing each graphene sheet over a layer of silicon nitride that had been punctured by an ion beam
and then through the larger silicon nitride hole. The group measured flows of five different salt ions through several graphene sheet setups by applying a voltage and measuring the current flowing through the pores.
This degeneration is caused by the destruction of the cones and cells in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE),
#Simple detection of magnetic skyrmions Stable whirls in magnetic materials were predicted over 25 years ago, but the experimental realization was achieved only recently.
when a nonmagnetic metal is used in such a measurement'In our experiment we can move a metallic tip over a surface with atomic-scale precision,
Through the use of this new ink, more versatile devices on paper or plastic can be made at a rate of 300 per minute, at a very low cost.
"The metamaterial consists of silicon pillar arrays embedded in a polymer matrix and clad in gold film.
and makes it into a crystal, like an ice cube does to water. Next, the crystal drug is placed into a fat and protein coat, similar to
#Powerful plastic microscope brings better diagnostic care for world's rural poor You can learn a lot about the state of someone's immune system just by examining their blood under the microscope.
a research team from Rice university has developed recently a plastic, miniature digital fluorescence microscope that can quantify white blood cell levels in patients located in rural parts of the world that are removed far from the modern laboratory."
which consisted of one polystyrene lens and two polymethyl methacrylate aspheric lenses, the researchers used a single-point diamond turning lathe.
reflectors, and USB detectors, combined with the all-plastic housing and lenses will allow for future versions of the prototype to be mass-produced d
At that point, a reflective metal layer is on the bottom.""In this structure--unlike other photodetectors--light absorption in an ultrathin silicon layer can be much more efficient
and boron nitride, comprises a few layers of carrier-moving channels, each of which can be controlled by the magnetic field.
We found that a bilayer structure of graphene and boron nitride displays an extremely large response with magnetic fields.
"The study was funded co by Capillary Film Technology Ltd--a UK SME developing low-cost microfluidic fluoropolymer film for life sciences and clinical diagnostics.
#Researchers develop 3-D printing method for creating patient-specific medical devices A team of researchers at Northeastern University has developed an innovative 3-D printing technology that uses magnetic fields to shape composite materials
--mixes of plastics and ceramics--into patient-specific products. The biomedical devices they are developing will be both stronger and lighter than current models and,
"Others have used composite materials in 3-D printing, says Joshua Martin, the doctoral candidate who helped design
This is the strategy taken by many natural composites from bones to trees. Consider the structure of human bone.
"Another of our goals is to use calcium phosphate fibers and biocompatible plastics to design surgical implants."
They then apply ultralow magnetic fields to individual sections of the composite material--the ceramic fibers immersed in liquid plastic--to align the fibers according to the exacting specifications dictated by the product they are printing."
layer by layer, using a computer-controlled laser beam that hardens the plastic. Each six-by-six inch layer takes a mere minute to complete."
in addition to combining it with a hydrophilic plasma polymer coating, which attracts moisture, "says Dr. Ingo Grunwald,
Researchers have integrated silver nanoparticles into the thin plasma polymer coating, which is up to just 100 nanometers thick.
with two plasma polymer layers surrounding a center layer of silver. Within this structure a biocide reservoir is formed
This allows the silver ions to penetrate the outermost plasma polymer layer over a set period of time deemed necessary to properly integrate the implant.
The test samples were coated using a plasma polymerization facility at the IFAM in Bremen. Researchers confirmed the mechanical stability
A demonstration unit of the plasma polymer coating is currently available. Researchers will be presenting a dental implant featuring the Dentaplas coating at the MEDICA trade fair in Düsseldorf from November 16-19 at the joint Fraunhofer booth t
all you had to do was take a walk in the woods. Now it not so simple.
The pressure sensors are made of a carbon nanotube-elastomer composite shaped into tiny pyramidal structures that are coated onto a surface.
The core of the project involves recycling local plastic into versatile locksduring volunteer workshops which are used then to build objects such as benches, planters and stages for use within the community.
23 local businesses, nearly 2000kg of plastic collected and the potential to build over 800 blocks.
if it were made of fiber-reinforced plastic rather than aluminum without added costs. Such injection-molded parts are even suitable for mass production.
In the future, car manufacturers will be able to achieve further weight savings by designing cylinder blocks in which certain parts are made of fiber-reinforced plastics.
which forms part of the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT, in collaboration with SBHPP, the high-performance plastics business unit of Sumitomo Bakelite Co. Ltd.,
Japan, demonstrates this principle. e used a fiber-reinforced composite material to build a cylinder casing for a one-cylinder research engine, reports Dr. Lars-Fredrik Berg,
That plastics possessed these qualities was recognized back in the 1980s but at that time it was only possible to produce this types of parts in a small volume
The researchers also modified the geometry of these parts to ensure that the plastic is exposed to as little heat as possible.
and not have a higher thermal expansion coefficient than the metal otherwise the inserts would separate from the substrate.
Berg team uses a glass-fiber-reinforced phenolic composite developed by SBHPP, which fulfills all of these requirements
A lighter-weight but more expensive alternative is to use a carbon-fiber-reinforced composite the choice depends on
The researchers produce these components from granulated thermoset plastics using an injection molding process. The melted composite material
in which the glass fibers are mixed already with the resin, hardens in the mold into which it was injected.
The scientists intend to take their research further by developing a multi-cylinder plastics-based engine,
metal wires are limited in terms of speed due to the resistance in the metal itself. Fiber optics use light to move information about 10
or gaps in metals. The team, which included researchers from Rutgers, the University of Colorado at Colorado springs,
including biodegradable plastics, pharmaceutical drugs and even liquid fuels. Scientists with the U s. Department of energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have created a hybrid system of semiconducting nanowires and bacteria that mimics
and 52-percent for the renewable and biodegradable plastic PHB. Improved performances are anticipated with further refinements of the technology. e are currently working on our second generation system
multicomponent alloys that are constructed at the nano scale within a limited number of alloy systems.
In the new paper, Schroers demonstrates a method for applying metallic glass nanostructures to a broad range of glass-forming alloys.
and composition of alloys at the nanoscale. ontrolling size and reaching the smallest 10 nanometer dimensions 1/10,
and realize all this in a very wide range of alloys. Expanding the chemistries of metallic glass also expands the possible uses for the materials,
or water resistance. his is like going from building boats only out of wood, to the ability to build boats out of almost any kind of material,
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