from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, have pushed the boundaries of a well-established imaging technique.
"explained Michael Zürch, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany and lead researcher.""The computer emulates the lens."
Zürch and a team of researchers from Jena University used a special, custom-built ultrafast laser that fires extreme ultraviolet photons a hundred times faster than conventional table-top machines.
#University of Houston researchers create fatigue-free, stretchable conductor: Material moves foldable electronics, new implantable medical devices a step closer Abstract:
Zhifeng Ren, a physicist at the University of Houston and principal investigator at the Texas Center for Superconductivity,
The work by Shanhui Fan, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, research associate Aaswath P. Raman and doctoral candidate Linxiao Zhu is described in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy
including from the University of Exeter, has developed techniques that will allow the first memory chip that can capture light.
Professor David Wright from the University of Exeter's Engineering department said:""With our prototype we have, for the first time,
a nanoscale integrated optical memory that could open up the route towards ultra-fast data processing and storage.
"Professor Wolfram Pernice, from the Institute of Physics at Mnster University and who led the work said:"
or more,"adds Professor Harish Bhaskaran from Oxford university in England, one of the lead co-authors,
The design was created by the research group of Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, a professor in the Department of chemistry at University of Montreal."
"said Sahar Mashid, postdoctoral scholar at the University of Montreal and first author of the study."
Francesco Ricci, a professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata who also participated in this study,
#A new single-molecule tool to observe enzymes at work A team of scientists at the University of Washington
senior author and UW physics professor Jens Gundlach.""We can really pick up atomic-scale movements that a protein imparts onto DNA."
according to co-author and UW physics doctoral student Jonathan Craig. They even discovered that these two steps involve sequential chemical processes that the protein uses to walk along DNA."
Now researchers from the University of Zurich, Switzerland have made a breakthrough by obtaining the first nanometer (one billionth of a meter) resolved image of individual tobacco mosaic virions
"said Jean-Nicolas Longchamp, the primary author and a postdoctoral fellow of the Physics department at the University of Zurich, Switzerland."
#Wearable electronic health patches may now be cheaper and easier to make A team of researchers in the Cockrell School of engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has invented a method for producing inexpensive and high-performing wearable patches
Led by Assistant professor Nanshu Lu, the team's manufacturing method aims to construct disposable tattoo-like health monitoring patches for the mass production of epidermal electronics,
Deji Akinwande, an associate professor and materials expert in the Cockrell School, believes Lu's method can be transferred to roll-to-roll manufacturing."
The University of Texas at Austin is committed to transparency and disclosure of all potential conflicts of interest.
The university investigator who led this research, Nanshu Lu, has submitted required financial disclosure forms with the university.
Lu is cofounder and scientific adviser for Stretch Med Inc.,a medical device company in which she has an equity partnership.
an assistant professor of bioengineering at Illinois."Previously light emission had an unknown correspondence with molecule number.
whose theory group headed by Professor Matthias Eschrig. They suggest that techniques based on this effect are able to move us closer to future supercomputers:
the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Science at Oregon State university."
The work by Cranston, an assistant chemical engineering professor, and Zhitomirsky, a materials science and engineering professor, demonstrates an improved three-dimensional energy storage device constructed by trapping functional nanoparticles within the walls of a nanocellulose foam.
The foam is made in a simplified and fast one-step process. The type of nanocellulose used is called cellulose nanocrystals
Kai Liu, professor of physics at UC Davis and corresponding author of a paper on the work, published in the journal Nature Communications Oct 8.
Together with graduate student Dustin Gilbert, now a postdoctoral fellow at NIST, Liu and colleagues designed a nanosynthesis approach to achieve artificial"Bloch"magnetic skyrmions at room temperature.
#Scientists pave way for diamonds to trace early cancers Physicists from the University of Sydney have devised a way to use diamonds to identify cancerous tumours before they become life threatening.
Led by Professor David Reilly from the School of Physics researchers from the University investigated how nanoscale diamonds could help identify cancers in their earliest stages."
"We knew nano diamonds were of interest for delivering drugs during chemotherapy because they are largely nontoxic and non-reactive,
"says Professor Reilly.""We thought we could build on these nontoxic properties realising that diamonds have magnetic characteristics enabling them to act as beacons in MRIS.
"Professor Reilly's team turned its attention to hyperpolarising nanodiamonds, a process of aligning atoms inside a diamond so they create a signal detectable by an MRI SCANNER."
"says Professor Reilly. The next stage of the team's work involves working with medical researchers to test the new technology on animals.
"said David D. Awschalom, Liew Family Professor and deputy director in the Institute of Molecular Engineering at UCHICAGO,
"said Andrew Yeats, a graduate student in Awschalom's laboratory and the paper's lead author."
"One exciting aspect of this work is that it's noninvasive"said Nitin Samarth, Professor and Downsbrough Head of Physics at Penn State,
and cheaply perform important chemical reactions is reported today by Tufts University researchers in the journal Nature Communications.
while a relatively cheap metal, is not nearly as catalytically powerful as platinum, noted Professor of Chemistry Charles Sykes, Ph d.,one of the senior authors on the paper."
With that knowledge, Sykes and his fellow chemists turned to long-time Tufts collaborator Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Ph d.,the Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed Professor in Energy Sustainability at the School of engineering,
"says Chih-Hao Chang, corresponding author of a paper on the work and an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State.
lead author of the paper and a Ph d. student at NC State. The researchers make the film by first using a nanolithography developed in Chang's lab to create highly-ordered pores in a polymer substrate.
#Researchers from Kiel and Bochum develop new information storage device Scientists from Kiel University and the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) have developed a new way to store information that uses ions to save data
"Six plus seven makes three-plus one carried over",calculated Professor Hermann Kohlstedt, Head of the Nanoelectronic group at Kiel University.
"said Professor Hermann Kohlstedt and his colleague from Bochum, Dr Thomas Mussenbrock to describe the research results.
In an experiment researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have got an artificial atom to survive ten times longer than normal by positioning the atom in front of a mirror.
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have placed an artificial atom at a specific distance in front of a short circuit that acts as a mirror.
"says Per Delsing, Professor of Physics and leader of the research team.""We can vary the lifetime of the atom by changing the distance between the atom and the mirror.
known as vacuum fluctuations,"says Göran Johansson, Professor of Theoretical and Applied Quantum physics and leader of the theory group.
of Paris at Sorbonne University, Dr. Vasily Stolyarov from the Laboratory of Topological Quantum Phenomena in Superconducting Systems at MIPT,
and their colleagues from Paris-Saclay University studied the emergence of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states bound around single magnetic atoms embedded in a two-dimensional superconductor.
The Laboratory was set up in 2014 using funds from a mega grant awarded to Alexander Golubov, a professor at the University of Twente (Netherlands.
Discussions are now under way for tests to be carried out at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV.
#Researchers transform slow emitters into fast light sources Researchers from Brown University, in collaboration with colleagues from Harvard, have developed a new way to control light from phosphorescent emitters at very high speeds.
associate professor of engineering and physics at Brown and senior author of a new paper describing the work."
Discussions are now under way for tests to be carried out at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV.
New Option to Diagnose Leukemia Iranian researchers from Tarbiat Modarres University designed a biosensor that enables the early diagnosis of leukemia in the test sample by using naked eyes.
The trio, working at the University of Innsbruck and the IQOQI, suggest overcoming the challenges by detaching the logical qubit from the physical implementation.
"explains co-author Philipp Hauke from the Institute for Theoretical physics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria."
and not based on any prior theoretical prediction,"says Hsieh, an assistant professor of physics, who previously was on a team that discovered another form of matter called a topological insulator."
which provide the playgrounds in which to search for new macroscopic physical properties.""Hsieh and his colleagues describe their findings in the November issue of Nature Physics,
Liuyan Zhao, a postdoctoral scholar in Hsieh's group, is lead author on the paper.
a chemist with Berkeley Lab's Materials sciences Division and the University of California (UC) Berkeley who is leading this research."
Nanoparticles were fabricated in the Australian National University by e-beam lithography followed by plasma-phase etching.
who served an internship in the University as a part of Presidential scholarship for studying abroad.
"In our experimental research me and my colleague Polina Vabishchevich from the Faculty used a set of nonlinear optics methods that address femtosecond light-matter,
#Magnetic Nanosorbents Eliminate Fluoride from Water Researchers from Tehran University of Medical sciences used low-cost and available raw materials for the laboratorial production of nanosorbents with high efficiency in elimination of fluoride from contaminated water.
senior author Jeffrey Long, a UC Berkeley professor of chemistry and faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory."
UC Berkeley graduate students Thomas Mcdonald and Jarad Mason, together with other co-workers, describe how this works."
an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics who invented the underlying technology. Ultimately, he adds, the technology could give small startups and even countries without well-funded space programs the opportunity to use low-cost satellites for space exploration. t
#Chameleon-like artificial'skin'shifts color on demand Borrowing a trick from nature, engineers from the University of California at Berkeley have created an incredibly thin,
Developed by engineers from the University of California at Berkeley, this chameleon-like artificial skin"changes color as a minute amount of force is applied.
an HHMI early career scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, used a single automated process to synthesize 14 distinct classes of small molecules from a common set of building blocks.
Furthermore, it requires expertise. urrently you have to have a high degree of training in synthesis to make small molecules,
"researchers at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and Kanazawa University describe how they have built the new AFM system optimized for live-cell imaging.
Since morphology changes of synapses underlie synaptic plasticity and our learning and memory, this will provide us with many new insights into mechanisms of how neurons store information in their morphology,
The Columbia team, led by Electrical engineering Associate professor Harish Krishnaswamy, is the first to demonstrate an IC that can accomplish this.
"explains Jin Zhou, Krishnaswamy's Phd student and the paper's lead author.""Transmitter echo or'self-interference'cancellation has been a fundamental challenge,
"We are working closely with Electrical engineering Associate professor Gil Zussman's group, who are network theory experts here at Columbia Engineering,
Now, engineers from the University of Pennsylvania and Exxonmobil have teamed up to answer this question. With a vested interest in the chemistry and performance of lubricants, scientists at Exxonmobil worked with scientists at Penn
Now, engineers from the University of Pennsylvania and Exxonmobil have teamed up to answer this question. In their experiments, the tip of an atomic force microscope stands in for an individual point of roughness on engine surfaces.
Cyborg insect research led by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is enabling new revelations about a muscle used by beetles for finely graded turns.
By strapping tiny computers and wireless radios onto the backs of giant flower beetles and recording neuromuscular data as the bugs flew untethered,
fundamental questions for the larger scientific community,"said Michel Maharbiz, an associate professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical engineering and Computer sciences and the study's principal investigator."
"said study lead author Hirotaka Sato, an assistant professor at NTU's School of Mechanical and Aerospace engineering."
#Spherical nucleic acids set stage for new paradigm in nanomedicine drug development A research team led by Northwestern University nanomedicine expert Chad A. Mirkin
"Mirkin is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and professor of medicine, chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering.
Joseph M. Desimone, professor of chemistry at UNC-Chapel hill and of chemical engineering at N c. State, is currently CEO of Carbon3d where he co-invented the method with colleagues Alex Ermoshkin, chief technology officer
at Carbon 3d and Edward T. Samulski, also professor of chemistry at UNC. Currently on sabbatical from the University, Desimone has focused on bringing the technology to market,
while also creating new opportunities for graduate students to use the technique for research in materials science and drug delivery at UNC and NCSU.
The technology called CLIP-for Continuous Liquid Interface Production-manipulates light and oxygen to fuse objects in liquid media,
Rima Janusziewicz and Ashley R. Johnson, graduate students in Desimone's academic lab, are co-authors on the paper
and defects, says a Texas A&m University biomedical engineer who is part of the team developing the biomaterial.
says Akhilesh Gaharwar, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Texas A&m. The biomaterial, which consists of nano-sized,
led by the University of Sydney. The researchers from the Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems,(CUDOS) based at the University of Sydney published their results in Nature Communications today("Enhancing
and inhibiting stimulated Brillouin scattering in photonic integrated circuits")."from left: Professor Benjamin Eggleton, Thomas Bttner and Moritz Merklein, researchers from CUDOS at the University of Sydney with the chalcogenide photonic chip.
This breakthrough is a fundamental advance for research in photonic chips and optical communications, said Moritz Merklein,
lead author from the Universitys School of Physics. In optical communications systems optical nonlinearities are regarded often as a nuisance,
I am delighted our CUDOS team at the University of Sydney in collaboration with our CUDOS colleagues at the Australian National University have achieved this fundamental important result t
#Putting batteries on stage spotlights performance at the nanoscale Used in everything from electric vehicles to laptop computers,
Gorodetsky of the University of California at Irvine (UCI) turned to squid skin for inspiration.
and Lisa Flanagan, Ph d.,from the UCI School of medicine, Gorodetsky's lab has shown that reflectin supports cell growth.
has been demonstrated recently by a research group at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Vibrant optical colors are generated from ultra-thin single layer silicon films deposited on a thin aluminum film surface with a low cost manufacturing process.
Doctoral student Seyed Sadreddin Mirshafieyan and Dr. Junpeng Guo in Dr. Guos lab with a disc showing a rainbow of optical colors created with ultra-thin layers of silicon.
a physical process that results in colors, says Dr. Junpeng Guo, professor of electrical engineering and optics,
who has published the result with his graduate student, Seyed Sadreddin Mirshafieyan, in a recent issue of Optics Express("Silicon colors:
while his student holds a collection of color samples. And the colors are very durable.
#Artificial hand able to respond sensitively thanks to muscles made from smart metal wires Engineers at Saarland University have taken a leaf out of natures book by equipping an artificial hand with muscles made from shape-memory wire.
The research group led by Professor Stefan Seelecke will be showcasing their prototype artificial hand and how it makes use of shape-memory metal muscles at HANNOVER MESSE the worlds largest industrial fair from April 13th to April 17th.
Filomena Simone, an engineer in the research team led by Professor Stefan Seelecke, is working on the prototype of the artificial hand.
The research team led by Professor Stefan Seelecke from Saarland University and the Center for Mechatronics and Automation Technology (Zema) is using a new technology based on the shape memory properties of nickel-titanium alloy.
In the Journal of Applied Physics("Elastocaloric effect of Ni-Ti wire for application in a cooling device"),a team of researchers from Technical University of Denmark report that the elastocaloric effect opens the door to alternative forms
lead author and a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Denmark. In terms of basic underlying concepts, the elastocaloric effect is associated with the"martensitic phase transformation,
the new nanobot engineered at the University of Illinois at Chicago is a far cry from Robocop.
--and then attached two electrodes on either side of the spore,"said Vikas Berry, UIC associate professor of chemical engineering and principal investigator on the study."
Chemists from Brown University have come up with a way to make new nanomaterials from a silicon-based compound.
Koski lab/Brown University)" Silicon-based compounds are the backbone of modern electronics processing, "said Kristie Koski, assistant professor of chemistry at Brown,
who led the work.""Silicon telluride is in that family of compounds, and we've shown a totally new method for using it to make layered, two-dimensional nanomaterials."
But this is something that we do not know yet"Researchers from the University of Tübingen, the University of Manchester,
#Novel nanoparticle therapy promotes wound healing (w/video)( Nanowerk News) An experimental therapy developed by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University cut in half the time it takes to heal
and people with diabetes, said study co-leader David J. Sharp, Ph d.,professor of physiology & biophysics at Einstein.
Dr. Sharp and project co-leader Joshua Nosanchuk, M d.,professor of medicine at Einstein and attending physician, infectious diseases at Montefiore Medical center, developed a wound-healing therapy that uses
Dr. Sharp collaborated with Joel Friedman, M d.,Ph d.,professor of physiology & biophysics and of medicine at Einstein,
"said Koray Aydin, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University's Mccormick School of engineering.""So the amount of material that is available for light emission or light absorption is limited very.
Sefaatiin Tongay, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Arizona State university, provided the large-area monolayer Mos2 material used in the study.
#Next important step toward quantum computer with quantum dots Physicists at the Universities of Bonn and Cambridge have succeeded in linking two completely different quantum systems to one another.
Dr. Michael Khl from the Institute of Physics at the University of Bonn.""Then we stored the direction of polarization of the photon".
and his team at Washington University in St louis were able to see blood flow, blood oxygenation, oxygen metabolism and other functions inside a living mouse brain at faster rates than ever before.
the Gene K. Beare Professor of Biomedical engineering in the School of engineering & Applied science, was able to take images of blood oxygenation 50 times faster than their previous results using fast-scanning PAM;
"explains Chiara Daraio, Professor of Mechanics and Materials. The scientists were able to develop by far the most sensitive temperature sensor:
Thickening agent pectin in a starring role The ETH scientists, together with a collaborator at the University of Salerno, Italy,
and the University of California Los angeles (UCLA), have discovered a new resonance phenomenon in a dielectric elastomer rotary joint that can make the artificial joint bend up and down,
Jianwen Zhao/Harbin Institute of technology in Weihai, University of California-Los angeles)" The dielectric elastomer is a kind of electro-active polymer that can deform
"said Jianwen Zhao, an associate professor of the Department of Mechanical engineering at the Harbin Institute of technology. He said that most studies on dielectric elastomers are using a static
in collaboration with bioengineers at Mcgill University, uncovered a new kind of synergy in the development of the nervous system,
"says Tyler F. W. Sloan, Phd student in Dr. Charron's laboratory and first author of the study."
"In collaboration with the Program in Neuroengineering at Mcgill University, Dr. Charron's team developed an innovative technique to recreate the concentration gradients of guidance cues in vitro,
The researchers, led by Danielle Benoit at the University of Rochester and Hyun Koo at the University of Pennsylvanias School of dental medicine
Graphic by Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester. click on image to enlarge) We had two specific challenges,
said Benoit, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering. We had to figure out how to deliver the antibacterial agent to the teeth and keep it there,
said Hyun Koo, a professor in the Department of Orthodontics and co-senior author of the work.
In 2014, researchers in South korea at IBS Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics along with Samsung Advanced Institute of technology, the Department of Nano Applied Engineering at Kangwon National University, the Department of energy Science
at Sungkyunkwan University, and Materials science department at California Institute of technology California, USA have formulated a new method for creating a novel and much more efficient TE alloy.
The first author, originally from SMART, is now with the University of Southampton. L-R:
Professor Michael Triantafyllou who is also the William I. Koch Professor of Marine Technology Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering and Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering at MIT, explained:
With this fundamental understanding in fluid mechanics, our research will pave the way for future robots that require fast maneuvers to help us get close to something that moves fast
The team, consisting of postdoctoral researcher Valeria Garbin, graduate student Ian Jenkins and professors Talid Sinno, John Crocker,
and Kathleen Stebe, also devised clever ways of measuring the properties of this unique system.
the Jamieson Career development Assistant professor in Electrical engineering and Computer science and one of the designers of the new device. e make use of almost all the pump light to measure almost all of the NVS.
a graduate student in electrical engineering who is advised by senior authors Englund and Danielle Braje, a physicist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Theye joined by Englund students Matthew Trusheim and Carson Teale (who also at Lincoln Lab) and by Tim Schröder, a postdoc in MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics y
and boron nitride (Nanowerk News) The research group led by Professor Yuichi Ikuhara (also appointed as a professor at Tokyo University), Associate professor Zhongchang Wang and Assistant professor Chunlin Chen at the Advanced Institute for Materials Research
, Tohoku University (AIMR), in collaboration with Group Leader Takashi Taniguchi at the National Institute for Materials science (NIMS) and Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC), succeeded for the first time in identifying the atomic structure and bonding mechanism in coherent interfaces between diamond
said study lead author Ashwin Atre, a graduate student in the lab group of Jennifer Dionne, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering.
and he is the first graduate from Dionne's lab b
#Novel photolithographic technology that enables control over functional shapes of microstructures Professor Shin-Hyun Kim
and his research team in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a novel photolithographic technology enabling control over the functional shapes of micropatterns using oxygen diffusion.
Professor Kim research team discovered that: 1) the areas exposed to UV LIGHT lowered the concentration of oxygen
Professor Kim and his team proved this phenomenon both empirically and theoretically. Furthermore, by injecting an external oxygen source
Professor Kim said, hile 3d printing is considered an innovative manufacturing technology, it cannot be used for mass-production of microscopic products.
The research was dedicated also to the late Professor Seung-Man Yang of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at KAIST.
He was considered one of the greatest scholars in Korea in the field of hydrodynamics and colloids.
and the University of Wisconsin synthesized a highly active and durable class of electrocatalysts by exploiting the structural evolution of solid Pt-Ni bimetallic nanocrystals into porous cage-like structures or nanoframes.
The step forward follows research by the Universities of Warwick and Cambridge and the unexpected discovery of a previously unknown arrangement of molecules in plant cell walls.
Professor Ray Dupree from the University of Warwick, one of the researchs authors, says:""Using advanced NMR techniques we found that the xylan polymer,
"The structure of the xylan was ascertained by creating 2d maps of the molecular structure of the woody stalks of thale cress in the UKS most advanced solid-state Nuclear Magnetic resonance (NMR) Facility, based at the University of Warwick.
Professor Paul Dupree of the University of Cambridge (son of Professor Ray Dupree) says"For the first time we have been able to study the arrangement of molecules in woody plant materials.
"Professors Ray and Paul Dupree have discussed the possibility of working together to solve outstanding questions in plant biochemistry for twenty years.
Only recently has it become possible due to the ability to grow suitable experimental plants at the University of Cambridge and the availability of the powerful NMR facility in Warwick.
co-researcher Professor Steven Brown of the University of Warwick says: The NMR Facility is a flagship national success for shared equipment and multi-disciplinary research.
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