Month: January 2022

Jan 10, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and intraspecies and crossing – for instance, today's strawberries are a cross between a strawberry species native to North...

Jan 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An international research group at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) has successfully treated cancer in mice using metal catalysts that assemble anticancer drugs together inside the body. Published in the scientific journal Nature Communications ("Synthetic prodrug design enables biocatalytic activation in living mice...

Jan 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs), which have an extremely high anisotropy with a hyperbolic dispersion relation, are rising as an innovative method of manipulating light. HMMs have received tremendous interest in photonics for their applicability to various fields such as super-resolution imaging, negative refraction, and emission engineering....

Jan 10, 2022 (Nanowerk News) If you’ve ever ordered a product from Amazon, chances are that a robot selected your purchase from a shelf, read the barcode and delivered it to the counter for packaging. Hopefully, it didn’t collide with a human worker on its journey and lose its way....

Home > Press > Physicists watch as ultracold atoms form a crystal of quantum tornadoes: The new observations record a key crossover from classical to quantum behavior Just like the formation of weather patterns on Earth, here a spinning fluid of quantum particles breaks up into a crystal formed from...

Home > Press > Intense monocycle terahertz pulses from shifting electrons in quantum structures Fig. 1. Ultrafast shift current generation in asymmetric semiconductor quantum wells and optical geometry. (a) Electrons are confined within a 13-nm wide quantum well made from AlxGa1-xAs. By varying the aluminum content one obtains an asymmetric...

Home > Press > Organic light emitting diodes operated by 1.5 V battery Fig. 1 (a) Schematic of the device structure and the operating mechanism of OLEDs. (b) Chemical structures. CREDIT NINS/IMS Abstract:Various properties of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have been optimized, including current to photon conversion efficiency. An...

Home > Press > Preserving the goods: A new technique for isolating intact lysosomes from cell cultures: Scientists advance the study of fragile digestive organelles by developing strategy to rapidly extract them from cells using magnetic nanoparticles Once magnetic nanoparticles have naturally accumulated in a cell’s lysosomes through the endocytic...

Home > Press > Researchers detect two-dimensional kagome surface statesAbstract:Kogome lattice has become a new focus in the study of condensed matter physics for its novel features. However, due to the in-plane and interlayer interactions in materials, the intrinsic features of the 2D kogome lattices are often affected or even...

Home > Press > Super-resolved imaging of a single cold atom on a nanosecond timescale from unsplash.com Abstract:The team of academician GUO Guangcan of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made important progress in the research of cold atom super-resolution imaging....