A team of Researchers from Spain and Italy have created a series of 3D hydrogel scaffolds for neuronal growth using a combination of aqueous graphene dispersions and acrylamide synthesized by in situ radical polymerization.
Scientists at the University of Texas have developed a tattoo that can read and monitor various bodily statistics related to the heart and brain.
Researchers say that the ultra-thin Graphene Electronic Tattoo (GET) is stretchable and has an ultra low areal mass density that stays in contact with the skin and keep itself intact without any need for adhesives for several hours.
“Lithium is a bit overrated. It’s simply not sensible that a single component in battery production is getting so much media coverage. What we should talk about instead is the recycling of lithium, which is something that needs to improve,” says Christina Lampe-Önnerud, the founder of Cadenza Innovation.
Gas sensors play an important role in a wide range of both home and industrial applications such as gas leakage detection, air-quality monitoring and breath-analysis. Among the various types of gas sensors, chemiresistors are probably the most promising due to their easy fabrication, low cost, high sensitivity and wide detection range. Gas sensors can complement as an alternative to more sophisticated instruments or systems for various detection purposes.
Salvador Barazza-Lopez, associate professor of physics at the University of Arkansas, is part of a team that published a review article on the properties of strained graphene and other strained two-dimensional atomic materials in the prestigious Reports of Progress in Physics, a review-style journal published by the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom that has a large impact factor of 14.3.
Insulin is a rather small molecule (molecular weight 5.8 kD) and weakly charged in solution (isoelectric point 5.8) and therefore, low concentrations (<1 µM) are difficult to detect using traditional (e.g., electrochemical) methods.
The idea of sailing through space and breaking through the current frontiers of humanity is dazzling. The intrinsic beauty of this endeavour, for me, lies in the circularity of history. It’s about revisiting the ages of the big European explorers that sailed to new worlds. These journeys taught us about those new places, but most of all it confronted us with ourselves; about our place in the world, about our greed and cruelty, about beauty and about our curiosity.
Researchers at the University of Connecticut, assisted by ones from the University of Akron, have patented a unique process for exfoliating graphene, as well as manufacturing innovative graphene nanocomposites that have potential uses in a variety of applications.
Nanomachines which can drill into cancer cells, killing them in just 60 seconds, have been developed by scientists.