Environmentally-friendly removal of biofouling with nanocoatings

This coating makes it harder for marine organisms to grow on the hulls and makes cleaning the ships easier.

Monopole current offers way to control magnets

Scientists have discovered interesting new magnetic properties of a type of materials known as 'quantum spin ice'.

Fighting myocardial infarction with nanoparticle tandems

How can damaged cardiac tissue following a heart attack best be treated with replacement muscle cells? A research team is now presenting an innovative method on mice: Muscle replacement cells, which are to take over the function of the damaged tissue, are loaded with magnetic nanoparticles.

Wafer to chip: X-ray imaging for reduced defect rate

New method shows how smallest damage at the surface of semiconductor crystals develops into large defects.

Metamaterial with a twist

Scientists have designed a three-dimensional material that converts linear compression forces into a rotation movement.

Simulating physics

Nature is quantum mechanical, and researchers are ready to study it with a nine-qubit array and the problem of many-body localization.

Graphene nano tweezers can grab individual biomolecules

Discovery could lead to revolutionary handheld disease diagnostic system.

Study confirms that cuprate materials have fluctuating stripes that may be linked to high-temperature superconductivity

These stripes of electron spin and charge are exciting because of their possible link to a phenomenon that could transform society by making electrical transmission nearly 100 percent efficient.

Spins line up for data duty

Electric fields produced by structural mismatches between two materials could be harnessed to manage data in spintronic devices.