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IMAGE: UC San Diego nanoengineers developed a separator that could make lithium metal batteries fail safely so that they do not rapidly overheat, catch fire or explode. view more  Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a safety feature that prevents lithium metal batteries from

IMAGE: An example of how an Amazon Alexa could determine a person’s location within a home. view more  Credit: Romit Roy Chowdhury Smart speakers – think, an Amazon Alexa or a Google Home – offer a wide variety of capabilities to help free up both our time and our hands. We can hear the morning news

IMAGE: Pyrochlore lattice without/with distortions (left/right panels). As the result of the distortions, ferromagnetic coupling (blue line) and anti-ferromagnetic coupling (red line) emerge. The ferromagnetic/anti-ferromagnetic couplings tend to make spins parallel/anti-parallel…. view more  Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan – A joint research group from Osaka University and the University of Tokyo uncovered the mechanism of the

IMAGE: Sound waves illustration. view more  Credit: Mary Theresa McLean/Pixabay Just over 15 years since a couple of researchers in the U.K. used adhesive tape to isolate single atomic layers of carbon, known as graphene, from a chunk of graphite, their Nobel Prize-winning discovery has fueled a revolution in ultrathin materials R&D. Graphene and other atomically

IMAGE: This is a schematic illustration of the Kondo cloud detection. view more  Credit: Jeongmin Shim Physicists have been trying to observe the quantum phenomenon Kondo cloud for many decades. An international research team comprising a scientist from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has recently developed a novel device which successfully measures the length of

IMAGE: Dr Arne Grimsmo is an ARC DECRA Fellow at the University of Sydney Nano Institute and School of Physics at the University of Sydney. view more  Credit: Stephanie Zingsheim/University of Sydney Scientists in Australia have developed a new approach to reducing the errors that plague experimental quantum computers; a step that could remove a critical

IMAGE: The nano island system with well dispersed silica coated Au nanorods (Si-AuNRs) was used to demonstrate the enhanced the cell growth of normal and cancer cells from the induced expressions… view more  Credit: Author In a report published in NANO, a group of researchers from the Republic of Korea have discovered a method to promote

The membrane surrounding cells acts as a selective barrier, cradling and protecting the cell’s contents from the external surroundings and choosing which substances to allow in or out of the cell. Scientists have therefore struggled to engineer efficient methods of delivering nanomaterials, such as DNA, proteins and drugs, into cells. Now, researchers from Korea University,