A self-powered, visible-blind UV detection design using silicon based photodetectors combined with UV sensitive luminescent materials has been developed.
A better look into arteries
Multispectral fluorescence lifetime imaging system with ultrasound guidance could improve intravascular diagnostics and analysis of atherosclerotic lesions.
Three "star physicists" to become new Humboldt Professors in Germany
New Humboldt Professorships have been awarded, among them three prominent international physicists working on electronic, magnetic and superconducting materials.
Funding to develop anti-heart-disease nanoparticles
A study to investigate how nanoparticles could be used to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease has received £3 million funding.
Water disassociation experiments could improve catalysis
EPFL scientists use lasers to determine for the first time how specific vibrations in a water molecule affect its ability to dissociate.
Designing metamaterials with genetic algorithms
Penn state engineers create specially formed material that can provide custom broadband absorption in the infrared using genetic algorithms.
Sandia labs launches new long-term project to fill materials behaviour gaps
Long-term, multidisciplinary project called Predicting Performance Margins aims to link variability in materials’ properties with how actual parts perform.
Microchips that keep their cool up to 300 degrees C
Researchers have fabricated compact SOI CMOS microchips that perform at temperatures the current generation of electronics can’t handle.
Bionics in the making: Zhenan Bao in the first person
Interview of Professor Zhenan Bao on the occasion of her addition to the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Advanced Materials.
Nanoelectronics gets a boost from electron-beam processed nanowires
Flexible metallic wires, only three atoms wide, produced with scanning transmission electron microscope.