Wearable patch may provide new treatment option for skin cancer

Researchers have created a novel wearable patch to provide an improved treatment experience for people with melanoma. The researchers developed a novel wearable patch with fully miniaturized needles, enabling unobtrusive drug delivery through the skin for the management of skin cancers.

Melting a crystal topologically

Physicists have successfully melted a very thin crystal of magnetic quasi-particles controllably, as turning ice into water. Novel phases of matter have been discovered and a new model system for fundamental physics studies has been established.

A phase battery for quantum technologies

The first quantum phase battery has been realized. It consist of an indium arsenide nanowire in contact with aluminum superconducting leads and is a key element for quantum technologies based on phase coherence.

With a 'catch-and-release' process, researchers advance graphene electronics

New findings could make fabrication of advanced graphene devices more efficient.

Excitons form superfluid in certain 2D combos

Mixing and matching computational models of 2D materials led scientists to the realization that excitons - quasiparticles that exist when electrons and holes briefly bind - can be manipulated in new and useful ways.

New supelens has potential to circumvent classical optics laws

Researchers have made a first-ever experimental observation of a plasmon nanojet. This physical phenomenon enables nanoscale focusing of light and, theoretically, allows engineers to bypass one of the fundamental limitations of the ordinary converging lens.

Discovery of graphene switch

Scientists have successfully measured the current-voltage curve of graphene nanoribbons that were suspended between two electrodes.