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Ultrashort Electric Pulses Allow Faster and Energy-Efficient Data Processing

Physicists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Lanzhou University in China developed a simple concept that could improve significantly magnetic-based data processing.

3 Jul 2020

Microscope-Based Technique Predicts Optimal Drugs to Fight Bacteria

New technique in which drugs make bacteria glow could help fight antibiotic resistance

3 Jul 2020

Innovative Light-Based Technique can Act as Building Block for Pharmaceuticals

In industry, gaseous hydrocarbons, such as ethane and methane, are frequently changed into molecules that can act as building blocks for pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals.

3 Jul 2020

Ancient Crystal Structure Can Improve Longevity of Perovskite Solar Cells

Solar energy researchers at Oregon State University are shining their scientific spotlight on materials with a crystal structure discovered nearly two centuries ago.

3 Jul 2020

Using ExM, Structured Illumination Microscopy to Visualize 3D Structure of Synaptonemal Complex

The synaptonemal complex is a ladder-like cell structure that plays a major role in the development of egg and sperm cells in humans and other mammals.

2 Jul 2020

New Spider Silk-Based Biocompatible Lenses for Biological Imaging

Spiders are generally good only for insect control. However, a new study has shown that they are worth more than that.

1 Jul 2020

New Visible Light-Activated Membranes Efficiently Utilize Solar Energy

Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Argonne National Laboratory in the U.S. have recently employed atomic layer deposition to fabricate visible light-activated membranes that efficiently utilize solar energy.

1 Jul 2020

Study Unveils Nonlinear Optical Mechanism Caused by Electron Tunneling

Steering and monitoring the light-driven motion of electrons inside matter on the time-scale of a single optical cycle is a key challenge in ultrafast light wave electronics and laser-based material processing.

1 Jul 2020

Novel LED Irradiation System for Surface Disinfection

Berlin-based Ferdinand-Braun-Institut and its spin-off UVphotonics NT GmbH have designed and developed a versatile turnkey irradiation system for surface treatment.

1 Jul 2020

Custom Light-Sheet Microscope for Gentle, Non-Invasive Observation of Corals

Corals are "part animal, part plant, and part rock - and difficult to figure out, despite being studied for centuries," says Philippe Laissue of University of Essex, a Whitman Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory.

1 Jul 2020

Novel Double Perovskites Could Help Advance Clean-Energy Applications

High-pressure materials science has taken off over the last couple of decades with advances in previously difficult experimental techniques and from technologies such as diamond anvils, which squeeze samples of materials between two diamonds at pressures up to millions of times greater than that at the Earth's surface.

1 Jul 2020

Selective Laser Sintering System to Create Complex Blood Vessel Networks

Powdered sugar is the special ingredient in a Rice University recipe for mimicking the body's intricate, branching blood vessels in lab-grown tissues.

30 Jun 2020

Wasatch Photonics Adds 1600 nm OCT Spectrometer for Deep Tissue Imaging

Wasatch Photonics has expanded its Cobra OCT spectrometer product line with a new 1600 nm OCT spectrometer for deep-tissue, SD-OCT imaging. The Cobra 1600 builds on the company’s existing line of more than 25 off-the-shelf OCT spectrometer models at visible, 800 nm, 1050 nm, and 1300 nm wavelengths, with camera speeds up to 250 kHz.

From Wasatch Photonics, Inc. 30 Jun 2020