Home > Press > Advances in priming B cell immunity against HIV pave the way to future HIV vaccines, shows quartet of new studies Abstract:Scientists have made several advances in the design of a class of HIV vaccines that could offer broad protection against the virus, according to four new...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: International research team uses wavefunction matching to solve quantum many-body problems: New approach makes calculations with realistic interactions possible
Home > Press > International research team uses wavefunction matching to solve quantum many-body problems: New approach makes calculations with realistic interactions possible Wavefunction matching replaces the short distance part of the two-body wavefunction for a realistic interaction with that of a simple easily computable interaction. The result is a...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Gene therapy relieves back pain, repairs damaged disc in mice: Study suggests nanocarriers loaded with DNA could replace opioids
Home > Press > Gene therapy relieves back pain, repairs damaged disc in mice: Study suggests nanocarriers loaded with DNA could replace opioidsAbstract:Disc-related back pain may one day meet its therapeutic match: gene therapy delivered by naturally derived nanocarriers that, a new study shows, repairs damaged discs in the spine...
Researchers develop world’s smallest quantum light detector on a silicon chip
May 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Bristol have made an important breakthrough in scaling quantum technology by integrating the world’s tiniest quantum light detector onto a silicon chip. A critical moment in unlocking the information age was when scientists and engineers were first able to miniaturise...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Aston University researcher receives £1 million grant to revolutionize miniature optical devices
Home > Press > Aston University researcher receives £1 million grant to revolutionize miniature optical devices Professor Misha Sumetsky CREDIT Professor Misha Sumetsky Abstract:Miniature optical devices to be developed for use across manufacturing, IT and agriculture Grant has been given by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...
Ion irradiation offers promise for 2D material probing
May 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Two-dimensional materials such as graphene promise to form the basis of incredibly small and fast technologies, but this requires a detailed understanding of their electronic properties. New research demonstrates that fast electronic processes can be probed by irradiating the materials with ions first. A collaboration...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Oscillating paramagnetic Meissner effect and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in cuprate superconductor
Home > Press > Oscillating paramagnetic Meissner effect and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in cuprate superconductor a. Vortices in three-dimensional superconductors; b. Vortices in the two-dimensional limit have characteristic scales that exceed the size of the sample; c. Magnetic susceptibility imaging of single-layer Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ; d. In the critical temperature region near the...
Physicists propose path to faster, more flexible robots
May 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) In a paper released in the journal Physical Review Letters ("Diffusiophoretic Fast Swelling of Chemically Responsive Hydrogels"), Virginia Tech physicists revealed a microscopic phenomenon that could greatly improve the performance of soft devices, such as agile flexible robots or microscopic capsules for drug delivery. The...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Shedding light on perovskite hydrides using a new deposition technique: Researchers develop a methodology to grow single-crystal perovskite hydrides, enabling accurate hydride conductivity measurements
Home > Press > Shedding light on perovskite hydrides using a new deposition technique: Researchers develop a methodology to grow single-crystal perovskite hydrides, enabling accurate hydride conductivity measurements The novel setup developed for this study enables the growth of single crystals of ternary pervoskite hydrides, which is notoriously challenging. In...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: What is “time” for quantum particles? Publication by TU Darmstadt researchers in renowned journal “Science Advances”
Home > Press > What is "time" for quantum particles? Publication by TU Darmstadt researchers in renowned journal "Science Advances"Abstract:In an amazing phenomenon of quantum physics known as tunneling, particles appear to move faster than the speed of light. However, physicists from Darmstadt believe that the time it takes for...