Self-Assembling Nanocubes for Lenses

Self-Assembling Nanocubes for Lenses

  8:39:00 PM    Science Lover

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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have developed a technique that enables metallic nanocrystals to self-assemble into larger, complex materials for next-generation antennas and lenses. The metal nanocrystals are cube-shaped...

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New Energy Source for Future Medical Implants: Sugar

New Energy Source for Future Medical Implants: Sugar

  7:50:00 PM    Science Lover

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MIT engineers have developed a fuel cell that runs on the same sugar that powers human cells: glucose. This glucose fuel cell could be used to drive highly efficient brain implants of the future, which could help paralyzed patients move their arms and legs again. This...

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Researchers Watch Tiny Living Machines Self-Assemble

Researchers Watch Tiny Living Machines Self-Assemble

  1:05:00 PM    Science Lover

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Enabling bioengineers to design new molecular machines for nanotechnology applications is one of the possible outcomes of a study by University of Montreal researchers that was published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology June 10. The scientists have developed...

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Engineered Robot Interacts With Live FishEngineered Robot Interacts With Live Fish

Engineered Robot Interacts With Live FishEngineered Robot Interacts With Live Fish

  3:22:00 PM    Science Lover

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A bioinspired robot has provided the first experimental evidence that live zebrafish can be influenced by engineered robots. A robotic zebrafish.  (Credit: Image courtesy of Institute of Physics) Results published 8 June in IOP Publishing's journal Bioinspiration...

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Quantum Computers Move Closer to Reality, Thanks to Highly Enriched and Highly Purified Silicon

Quantum Computers Move Closer to Reality, Thanks to Highly Enriched and Highly Purified Silicon

  2:57:00 PM    Science Lover

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The quantum computer is a futuristic machine that could operate at speeds even more mind-boggling than the world's fastest super-computers. SFU physicist Mike Thewalt and grad student Kamyar  Saeedi with a sample of highly isotopically enriched silicon -  its...

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Building Molecular 'Cages' to Fight Disease

Building Molecular 'Cages' to Fight Disease

  8:30:00 PM    Science Lover

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UCLA biochemists have designed specialized proteins that assemble themselves to form tiny molecular cages hundreds of times smaller than a single cell. The creation of these miniature structures may be the first step toward developing new methods of drug delivery or...

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