Playing the angles with dramatic effect

Dec 19, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Phase transitions have long been of crucial importance to scientific research. The change from water to ice or steam is a simple example. A phase transition important to pioneering research today is that from metal to insulator in materials referred to as "'correlated oxides'. Scientists...

Quantum-dot tattoos hold vaccination record

Dec 18, 2019 (Nanowerk News) Keeping track of a child’s shots could be so much easier with technology invented by a new Rice University professor and his colleagues. Kevin McHugh, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice since this summer, and a team at his previous institution, the Massachusetts Institute...