Recent advances in this field have made micro- and nanomotors promising devices for solving many biomedical problems.
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Recent advances in this field have made micro- and nanomotors promising devices for solving many biomedical problems. • Email to a friend • Scientists have probed into nanostructures covering the corneas of the eyes of small fruit flies. Investigating them the team learned how to produce the safe biodegradable nanocoating with antimicrobial, anti-reflective, and self-cleaning properties in a cost-effective and eco-friendly way. • Email to a friend • A team of researchers are developing a toolbox of self-assembling nanoparticles to be used as vaccines against infections including the parasitic Toxoplasma gondii. • Email to a friend • Researchers have managed to make an efficient material for broadband frequency doubling of light using microspheres made of disordered nanocrystals. The crucial idea for the method arose during a coffee break. In the future, the new approach could be used in lasers and other light technologies. • Email to a friend • Scientists demonstrate how light stored in a cloud of ultra-cold atoms can be transported by means of an optical conveyor belt. • Email to a friend • Cheaper refrigerators? Stronger hip implants? A better understanding of human disease? All of these could be possible and more, someday, thanks to an ambitious new project to design and build a fleet of tiny ultra-sensitive thermometers. • Email to a friend • A team of researchers has demonstrated for the first time a single-molecule electret - a device that could be one of the keys to molecular computers. • Email to a friend • In their test runs, the researchers have produced gloves that can digitally capture hand movements, a zipper that transmits different electric currents depending on the degree of opening, and sports tapes that act as user interfaces that are attached to the body. • Email to a friend • The trick to extremely thin supercapacitors with improved performance is spraying graphene ink at an angle. • Email to a friend • |
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