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Polarized photoluminescence spectra of europium-doped nanorods can be used to measure the local shear rate profile of a liquid in microfluidic channels.
Highly bioactive supramolecular nanostructures displaying sulfated glycopeptides on their surfaces were designed in order to mimic the polysaccharides that bind and activate a plethora of proteins in mammalian biology during development and tissue regeneration.
A blue shift in the surface plasmon resonance of an indium tin oxide layer is observed—and electrically tuned—where a classical description would predict a red shift.
Soft phononic clamping dilutes the intrinsic dissipation of a mechanical resonator's material by five orders of magnitude, enabling a record value of the product between frequency and quality factor at room temperature, and mechanical coherence times otherwise only available in optical or Paul traps.
Nanoscale plasma membrane curvature, generated in a controllable fashion by vertically aligned nanostructure arrays, promotes the accumulation of key endocytic proteins in live cells.
Electro-oxidation of CNT Joule heaters can be eliminated through the application of sufficiently high a.c. frequencies, which enables their use as self-heating membranes in membrane distillation.
The implementation of bio-inspired sparse coding algorithms aimed at image processing is demonstrated by exploiting 32 × 32 crossbar arrays of analogue memristors.
An optical non-linearity at the single-photon level is reported with a semiconductor quantum dot–cavity device. The device performs as an efficient single-photon filter that strongly suppresses the multiphoton components of incident coherent pulses.
A multivalent bi-specific nanoconjugate can promote immune cells to recognize and eradicate cancer cells in a receptor targeted manner, leading to the generation of potent and durable anti-tumour immunity.