Animal-free method predicts nanoparticle toxicity for safer industrial materials

Researchers have developed a novel animal-free method to predict the toxic effect of nanoparticles to the human lung. The method aims to enable the safety-by-design development of safer industrial materials.

Sound waves power new advances in drug delivery and smart materials

Pioneering research shows how high-frequency sound waves can help build smart materials, new nanoparticles and deliver drugs to the lungs for painless, needle-free vaccinations.

Replicating surfaces, right down to the sub-atomic scale

Researchers demonstrate an alternative sputter deposition-based approach for the replication of atomic-scale features that is suited for a very broad range of amorphous alloys, thereby dramatically extending the available chemistries.

Detecting molecules with infrared laser pulses

Scientists demonstrate laser light in the mid-infrared range with tailor-made quantum cascade lasers.