Findings open up possibilities for mechanical metamaterials to be used in soft robotics and medical devices.
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Findings open up possibilities for mechanical metamaterials to be used in soft robotics and medical devices. • Email to a friend • Materials scientists are calling for a collective, global effort to fast-track the mass production of 2D materials like graphene and molybdenum disulfide. • Email to a friend • A soft material that heals itself instantaneously is now reality. A team of scientists tune the nanostructure of a new stretchable material in such a way that it now entirely recovers its structure and properties at the blink of an eye after being cut or poked. • Email to a friend • Researchers have combined optical and acoustic approaches and found that incorporating titanium atoms into barium hexaferrite leads to an unexpected substructure forming in the crystal lattice. The resulting material is promising for ultrafast computer memory applications. • Email to a friend • Researchers create neurotransmitter-lipid hybrids that help ferry therapeutic drugs and gene editing proteins across the blood-brain barrier in mice. • Email to a friend • The study assessed how the guts of species could protect against the bioaccumulation and toxicological effects of engineered nanomaterials. • Email to a friend • New model explores the design space of twisted 2D materials. • Email to a friend • Water molecules play an active role in facilitating the oxygen dissociation needed for the oxidation reaction. • Email to a friend • Theoretical studies have suggested that 'particle density', or the number of particles in an area, can be utilized to develop a novel ratchet transportation with a 'static' electrical field. • Email to a friend • Scientists demonstrate a synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy-based method by which the local temperatures of metal nanoparticles can be measured under microwaves. • Email to a friend • When ultrafine magnetic particles are exposed to an external magnetic field, their magnetic core grows in a previously unexpected way. • Email to a friend • Conventional optothermal microbubble assisted bio-sensing is not suitable for protein sensing due to the high temperatures over 100 dgrees C. To overcome this problem, researchers have demonstrated a proof-of-concept study that reduces the working temperature of bubble generation simply by introducing a volatile, water-immiscible liquid into an aqueous medium. This enables the generation of bubbles at a much lower temperature of around 30 degrees C, not only making this sensing platform compatible with proteins but also enhancing the surface capture of proteins. • Email to a friend • Researchers overcame the natural restrictions by developing optical tweezers based on metamaterials - a synthetic material with specific properties that do not occur naturally. This was the first time that this kind of metamaterial had been used for single nanoparticle trapping. • Email to a friend • |
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