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Architecture is key: Biomolecule metal-organic hybrids with high bioactivity
Biomacromolecules incorporated into tailored metal-organic frameworks using peptide modulators are well shielded but highly active thanks to carefully tuned nanoarchitecture.
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High-end microscopy refined
Scientists have been able to map the synaptonemal complex three-dimensionally with a resolution of 20 to 30 nanometres.
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Bubbling and burping droplets of DNA
Liquid droplets formed from DNA display a peculiar response to enzymes.
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Scientists use a Teflon pipe to make a cheap, simple reactor for silica particle synthesis
Functional silica beads for biomedical imaging, drug delivery and other important applications could be made using an easy new flow synthesis method.
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Stabilizing water loss in synthetic trees
Scientists are developing 'synthetic trees' that work like their natural counterparts to serve in specific applications. In an important step, scientists fabricated synthetic leaves using nanoporous disks.
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Being exceptional in higher dimensions
By connecting electromagnetic waves and magnetism to create a system made of magnon polaritons, scientists demonstrated the existence of an 'exceptional surface' for the first time.
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New chemistry for ultra-thin gas sensors
Researchers established a new fabrication process based on a non-pyrophoric zinc precursor that can be processed at temperatures low enough to allow plastics to be coated.
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Building a harder diamond
Scientists use computer calculations to propose a new way to rearrange the carbon atoms in a diamond to make it even harder, which may be useful in industrial applications that rely on synthetic cutting diamonds .
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Removing toxic chemicals from water: New environmentally-friendly method
Researchers have developed a new environmentally friendly method for removing toxic chemicals from water. A newly invented machine, called the Matrix Assembly Cluster Source (MACS), has been used to design a breakthrough water treatment method using a solvent-free approach.
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Feel the beat: implanted microlasers scan heart from inside
It sounds like science fiction - but lasers beating to the rhythm of a live heart is exactly what researchers have developed to improve the understanding of heart failure and to help develop more effective treatments.
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Biocompatible, piezoelectric nanofibers can help repair broken bones
Healing broken bones could get easier with a device that provides both a scaffold for the bone to grow on and electrical stimulation to urge it forward.
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Researchers find contactless way to measure thickness of carbon nanotube films
Scientists have figured out a non-invasive way to measure the thickness of single-walled carbon nanotube films, which may find applications in a wide variety of fields from solar energy to smart textiles.
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Buzzing to rebuild broken bone
Healing broken bones could get easier with a device that provides both a scaffold for the bone to grow on and electrical stimulation to urge it forward, engineers report. Although minor bone breaks usually heal on their own, large fractures with shattered or missing chunks of bone are more difficult to repair. A biocompatible, dissolving polymer device can mimic the body's natural electrical field and help the cells regenerate.
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Spider silk can create lenses useful for biological imaging
Spider silk is useful for a variety of biomedical applications: It exhibits mechanical properties superior to synthetic fibers for tissue engineering, and it is not toxic or harmful to living cells. One unexpected application for spider silk is its use in the creation of biocompatible lenses for biological imaging applications. Researchers now describe the feasibility of creating lenses capitalizing on the properties of natural spider silk material.
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Wide graphene nanoribbon promises the next generation of miniaturized electronics
A research group introduced the widest graphene nanoribbon prepared by the bottom-up approach with electrical properties surpassing those of silicon semiconductors, promising a new generation of miniaturized electronic devices.
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your crystal grow?
Researchers have managed to create structures that are a complete paradox: single, continuous crystals that have multiple domains, an asymmetric shape and curved lines; they are as complex as one could expect from a 'monumental' structure.
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Light from inside the tunnel
Physicists have revealed a so-far overlooked nonlinear optical mechanism that emerges from the light-induced tunneling of electrons inside dielectrics.
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How to design more reliable nano- and micro-electro-mechanical systems
Scientists present insights from sophisticated small-scale mechanical experiments explaining unexpected plastic deformation of silicon on the nanoscale.
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Nanocoatings could reduce complications after implant surgery
Researchers have developed a new method of applying anti-inflammatory substances to implants in order to inhibit undesirable inflammatory reactions in the body.
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Cartwheeling light reveals new optical phenomenon
Researchers have discovered details about a novel type of polarized-light matter interaction with light that literally turns end over end as it propagates from a source.
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