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Unique Nanoparticle Inhibits Tumor Growth Upon Exposure to Light

A unique nanoparticle to deliver a localized cancer treatment inhibits tumor growth in mice, according to a team of Penn State researchers.

8 Jul 2020

Study Helps Make Plastic Coatings with High Transparency and Conductivity

At the University of Michigan, scientists have made plastic conductive as well as more transparent as part of their attempts to enhance window-mounted infrared solar cells, LED light panels, and huge touchscreens.

7 Jul 2020

Novel Battery Offers the Benefits of Both Solid- and Liquid-State Batteries

Scientists have developed a new kind of battery that integrates the various benefits of prevalent options and, at the same time, removes their major drawbacks and saves energy.

7 Jul 2020

Seika Machinery Introduces New Stencil Opening Inspection System

Seika Machinery, Inc., a leading provider of advanced machinery, materials and engineering services, is pleased to introduce the new Sawa SCI-MCC (Mask Condition Checker) designed for metal stencil opening inspection.

From Seika Machinery, Inc. 7 Jul 2020

World’s First 3D Printed FRP Footbridge Paves Way for Circular Composites

Royal HaskoningDHV, DSM - a global purpose-led, science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, and City of Rotterdam, have announced the intention to collaborate in the design and build of a new circular composite footbridge which will be installed in Rotterdam.

From Royal HaskoningDHV 7 Jul 2020

New Superconducting System Exhibits High Structural Uniformity

Superconductivity is a physical phenomenon occurring at low temperatures in many materials which manifests itself through a vanishing electrical resistance and the expulsion of magnetic fields from the material's interior.

7 Jul 2020

Spintronics Breakthrough Could Lead to High-Speed, Energy-Efficient Data Technology

Scientists have made a pivotal breakthrough in the important, emerging field of spintronics - which could lead to a new high speed energy efficient data technology.

7 Jul 2020

Researchers Achieve Novel Time-Dependent Topological System with Ultracold Atoms

An international team led by physicists from the Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet in Munich realized a novel genuine time-dependent topological system with ultracold atoms in periodically-driven optical honeycomb lattices.

7 Jul 2020

Study Determines Crystal Structure of Superhard Tungsten Boride

Skoltech researchers together with their industrial colleagues and academic partners have cracked a 1960s puzzle about the crystal structure of a superhard tungsten boride that can be extremely useful in various industrial applications, including drilling technology.

7 Jul 2020

New Tool to Determine Optimum Design for Solar-Assisted Heating Networks

More than 40% of energy consumption in the European Union is by buildings and 63% of this figure is due to residential dwellings.

7 Jul 2020

Researchers Observe Quantum Fluid Called Fractional Quantum Hall States

Columbia University researchers report that they have observed a quantum fluid known as the fractional quantum Hall states (FQHS), one of the most delicate phases of matter, for the first time in a monolayer 2D semiconductor.

7 Jul 2020

Researchers Successfully Observe Superfluidity in 2D Gas Cloud

Zero electrical resistance at room temperature- A material with this property, i.e. a room temperature superconductor, could revolutionize power distribution.

7 Jul 2020

Low-Threshold Nanolaser Achieved Using 2D Topological Photonic Crystal Nanocavity

The applications of topological photonics have been intensively investigated, including one-way waveguide and topological lasers.

7 Jul 2020

Interface Strain Engineering of 2D Graphene Leads to New Type of Cathode

The rapid development of renewable energy resources has triggered tremendous demands in large-scale, cost-efficient and high-energy-density stationary energy storage systems.

7 Jul 2020