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iPhone plus nanoscale porous silicon equals cheap, simple home diagnostics
The simplest home medical tests might look like a deck of various silicon chips coated in special film, one that could detect drugs in...
Jun 12, 20192 min read


Manipulating nanoscale light in nanocavity of scanning tunneling microscope junctions
Spatial resolution of optical microscopy and spectroscopy is determined by how much one can confine light in space, which is usually...
Jun 12, 20192 min read


Penn engineers design nanostructured diamond metalens for compact quantum technologies
At the chemical level, diamonds are no more than carbon atoms aligned in a precise, three-dimensional (3D) crystal lattice. However, even...
Jun 11, 20195 min read


Imperfection is OK for better MOFs
Perfect crystals are not necessarily the most useful. Defects in the ordered crystalline structure of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)...
May 27, 20192 min read


ASU team throws new light on photosynthetic supercomplex structure
A team of scientists from Arizona State University has taken a significant step closer to unlocking the secrets of photosynthesis, by...
May 27, 20193 min read


New flatland material: Physicists obtain quasi-2D gold
Researchers from the MIPT Center for Photonics and 2D Materials have synthesized a quasi-2D gold film, showing how materials not usually...
May 24, 20194 min read
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