Any wound that isn’t treated in the appropriate manner can create a whole host of problems. However, when a chronic wound becomes infected, it presents many adverse complications, including impaired healing, increased exposure to pathogens, and the potential of serious infection, such as sepsis.
By David J. Cross
15 Nov 2021
The vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) is a potential sustainable energy storage system. The ion-exchange membrane (IEM) used in a VRFB cell avoids a cathode or anode short circuit and prevents electrolyte crossover and side reactions. The membrane enables proton conduction to maintain the cell electrically neutral.
PI’s new H-811 vacuum compatible miniature 6-axis hexapod robotic stage provides high performance and high accuracy motion in a very small package.
A team of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has developed a high-performance Scanning Ion Conductance Microscope (SICM) using the latest advances in nanopositioning, nanopore fabrication, microelectronics and controls engineering.
By William Alldred
11 Nov 2021
Nanotechnology is changing the world: manipulating matter on a near-atomic scale to produce nanomaterials, nanostructures and nanomachinery that have a widespread application in everything from biomedicine to quantum computing.
By David J. Cross
11 Nov 2021
Andrey Galukhin, group leader and Associate Professor at Kazan Federal University, performed a new study that examines the processes of polymerization of trifunctional aryl cyanate in melt and in a solution of diphenyl sulfone.
The treatment of diseases like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s is difficult as drugs should be able to penetrate the blood-brain barrier. Thus, the administered doses must be high, with only a small fraction reaching the brain. This can cause major systemic side effects.
Scientists have formulated a method using which they can freely encapsulate microscopic droplets of water and oil emulsion in a minute sphere made of salt crystals — similar to a tiny, self-constructing origami soccer ball packed with liquid.
Liquid crystals already offer the foundation for effective technologies such as LCD displays, and scientists continue to develop specific types of liquid crystals for much better optical applications and devices.
A team of researchers from the United States, Japan and South Korea have doped a two-dimensional sheet of graphene using a monolayer of tungsten oxyselenide (TOS) by oxidizing a monolayer of tungsten diselenide. This TOS-doped graphene exhibits high optical transmittance and low insertion loss at telecommunications wavelengths.
By William Alldred
2 Nov 2021
During the past decade, the cell has been leveraged as a strong tool to carry out sudden tasks with the help of artificial regulation.
Boron is a multipurpose non-metal element. However, in the past five years, chemists have only hypothesized about the beneficial properties and applications of two-dimensional (2D) boron-containing materials.
By Skyla Baily
29 Oct 2021
Labtech-EM's new "K-kit Folding Grid” significantly reduces preparation times of liquid samples for TEM imaging.
A team of researchers at Osaka Prefecture University, the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, and The University of Tokyo has created a thin-film metal-organic framework (MOF) with major applications in chemiresistive sensors, supercapacitors, electrode catalysts, and environmentally friendly storage media for natural gas.
By William Alldred
28 Oct 2021
Researchers from Korea, Russia, and India have worked collaboratively to create a nano-filter method that can effectively remove synthetic dyes from wastewater.
By David J. Cross
28 Oct 2021