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Materials Informatics: The Time For Adoption is Now
Added: 4 Jun 2020
Materials Informatics is the key to enabling a paradigm shift in our approach to materials science …

Viable sodium-ion battery for sustainable energy storage
Added: 3 Jun 2020
Washington State University (WSU) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers have…

Oil-hungry smart sponge could restore our oceans
Added: 2 Jun 2020
A Northwestern University-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soak…

New technique for higher resolution molecular imaging and analysis
Added: 1 Jun 2020
A Northwestern University research team has developed a new method to conduct spectroscopic nanosco…

Tracking the physics of biological cells using nanodevices (video)
Added: 28 May 2020
For the first time, scientists have introduced minuscule tracking devices directly into the interio…

Biohybrid organic battery combines nanocomposite and bacteria
Added: 27 May 2020
Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a programmable, biohybrid ma…

Higgs Spectroscopy: A new method to measure superconductors
Added: 13 May 2020
From sustainable energy to quantum computers: high-temperature superconductors have the potential t…

Generating sustained nanolight
Added: 12 May 2020
An international research team has discovered an effective method for controlling the frequency of …

‘Open Design’: Printing research hardware to save on capitol costs
Added: 7 May 2020
Free and open source hardware (FOSH) is rapidly gaining momentum as part of a global ‘open design m…

Extending the design rules for clean energy production
Added: 7 May 2020
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have uncovered the …

Scalable ‘Twistronics’ for exotic 2D applications
Added: 4 May 2020
Researchers from Aalto University have developed a completely new method for twisting atomically th…

Controlled spherical crystallography for targeted drug delivery
Added: 4 May 2020
Results from a research collaboration between researchers at Drexel’s College of Engineering and th…

Graphene device bridges the terahertz gap
Added: 5 Feb 2020
Researchers have used graphene to create a device which will unlock the elusive terahertz wavelengt…

Carbon nanotubes grown on newsprint
Added: 26 Nov 2019
Your old copies of Lab News may still have some unexpected uses in the lab…

Ultra-fine particles linked to brain cancer
Added: 14 Nov 2019
Air pollution nanoparticles have been linked to brain cancer for the first time.

Rahko raises £1.3M for quantum chemistry simulation
Added: 18 Oct 2019
UCL spin-out Rahko has raised £1.3 million in seed funding to develop its machine learning-powered …

Wellcome Trust on the hunt for best public engagement
Added: 16 Oct 2019
The Wellcome Trust has launched an initiative to find the best examples of public engagement projec…

ESA opens calls for ISS lab upgrade
Added: 14 Oct 2019
The European Space Agency is looking for industry help to upgrade the Columbus laboratory aboard th…

Lithium-ion researchers win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Added: 9 Oct 2019
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers for their work on the developmen…

Nanolaser functions inside living human tissue
Added: 26 Sep 2019
A US team has developed a nanolaser that can operate in confined spaces such as quantum circuits, m…