Scientists examined a highly efficient thermoelectric material in a new way - by using light.
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Scientists examined a highly efficient thermoelectric material in a new way - by using light. • Email to a friend • Scientists have uncovered details of how the bacterial propeller, known as the flagellum, switches between counterclockwise and clockwise rotation, allowing it to control its movement. The findings include a model that shows structural changes happening within portions of the flagellar motor. • Email to a friend • Researchers have developed a tiny device that paves the way for higher performance quantum computers and quantum communications, making them significantly faster than the current state-of-the-art. • Email to a friend • Scientists develop a simple method that mimics plant motion to get paper to 'fold itself' after printing. • Email to a friend • Scientists formulate a novel strategy to predict the lifetime of nanolithography molds through changes in the contact angle of water on the mold surface. • Email to a friend • Nanoparticles could cross the blood-brain barrier to deliver drugs to the brain. • Email to a friend • Researchers report on how magnets and magnetic signals can be coupled more effectively and steered by electric fields. This could result in new, environmentally friendly concepts for efficient communication and data processing. • Email to a friend • A physicist discovers the Hall effect in an antiferromagnet, which - according to current theories - is impossible. • Email to a friend • With over 200 COVID-19 vaccine trials currently underway globally, nanotechnology is being pivoted for COVID-19 applications. Nanoparticles and viruses operate on the same scale, and thus there are various nanotechnological aides which are being used in the development of potential vaccines. Nanoparticles are capable of entering the cell through biological channels, and can deliver antigens there. Besides delivering antigens themselves, nanoparticles can also be enlisted to provide adjuvants to cells. • Email to a friend • To ensure that sepsis patients receive appropriate antibiotics as quickly as possible, researchers have developed a diagnostic procedure that uses high-throughput sequencing of blood samples and delivers results much faster than conventional culture-based techniques. Thanks to the latest single-molecule sequencing techniques, this process has now been further improved so that pathogens can be identified after just a few hours. • Email to a friend • A research team has developed a new method for creating metal-organic framework (MOF) thin films that can be applied to sensors and electric devices. • Email to a friend • Making such purely organic, atomically precise hollow molecular spheres or cages is synthetically challenging. Now, researchers have successfully developed a template-free, one-pot synthesis of a porphyrin-based gigantic organic cages composed of multi-porphyrin units. • Email to a friend • Atomic clusters are composed of several atoms of the same or very few different elements. Which conditions lead to the formation of atomic clusters? When and how do they fragment? These questions have been investigated by researchers. • Email to a friend • |
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