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Directed evolution builds nanoparticles
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists who developed the method that forever changed protein engineering: directed...
Feb 27, 20193 min read
Controlling neurons with light -- but without wires or batteries
University of Arizona biomedical engineering professor Philipp Gutruf is first author on the paper Fully implantable, optoelectronic...
Jan 2, 20193 min read
One of the world's fastest cameras films motion of electrons
During the conversion of light into electricity, such as in solar cells, a large part of the input light energy is lost. This is due to...
Dec 20, 20183 min read
Physicists name and codify new field in nanotechnology: ‘electron quantum metamaterials’
When two atomically thin two-dimensional layers are stacked on top of each other and one layer is made to rotate against the second...
Nov 6, 20183 min read
Disorder plays a key role in phase transitions of materials
Researchers in the Ultrafast Dynamics in Quantum Solids group at ICFO including PhD student Luciana Vidas and former post doctoral...
Nov 5, 20183 min read
Novel topological insulator
Topological insulators are materials with very special properties. They conduct electricity or light particles on their surface or edges...
Oct 11, 20182 min read
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