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Electronic skin has a strong future stretching ahead
01/12/2020
A material that mimics human skin in strength, stretchability and sensitivity could be used to collect biological data in real time. Electronic skin, or e-skin, may play an important role in next-generation prosthetics, personalized medicine, soft robotics and artificial intelligence.
Miniscule robots of metal and plastic
27/11/2020
Robots so tiny that they can manoeuvre through our blood vessels and deliver medications to certain points in the body - researchers have been pursuing this goal for years. Now, scientists at ETH Zurich have succeeded for the first time in building such "micromachines" out of metal and plastic, in which these two materials are interlocked as closely as links in a chain.
Sound waves power new advances in drug delivery and smart materials
26/11/2020
Pioneering research shows how high-frequency sound waves can help build smart materials, new nanoparticles & deliver drugs to the lungs for painless, needle-free vaccinations.
Contact lenses for diagnostic and therapeutic use
25/11/2020
Specially engineered contact lenses use tears to monitor patient health.
Identifying compound classes through machine learning
24/11/2020
Bioinformaticians at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany together with colleagues from Finland and the USA, have now developed a unique method with which all metabolites in a sample can be taken into account, thus considerably increasing the knowledge gained from examining such molecules.
Chromosomes look different than you think
20/11/2020
In high school textbooks, human chromosomes are pictured as wonky Xs like two hotdogs jammed together. But those images are far from accurate. "For 90 percent of the time," said Jun-Han Su, "chromosomes don't exist like that."
A single molecular switch reveals atomic-scale light dynamics
19/11/2020
Researchers at the the University of Regensburg and the MPSD in Hamburg have developed a groundbreaking method to detect the dynamics of light on such a small scale with high temporal resolution.
More precise view of the smallest nanoparticles
18/11/2020
Current state-of-the-art techniques have clear limitations when it comes to imaging the smallest nanoparticles, making it difficult for researchers to study viruses and other structures at the molecular level.
Ultracompact metalens microscopy breaks FOV constraints
17/11/2020
The pursuit of ever-higher imaging resolution in microscopy is coupled with growing demands for compact portability and high throughput. While imaging performance has improved, conventional microscopes still suffer from the bulky, heavy elements and architectures associated with refractive optics.
Scientists use bacteria as micro-3D printers
13/11/2020
A team at Aalto University has used bacteria to produce intricately designed three-dimensional objects made of nanocellulose. With their technique, the researchers are able to guide the growth of bacterial colonies through the use of strongly water repellent - or superhydrophobic - surfaces.