Ultrafast generation of a field‐free vector potential that is tunable in duration, sign, and magnitude, allowing to impart non‐invasive, spatiotemporally controlled changes to the quantum nature of nanosystems.
Engineering Digest: Featuring Materials Made via 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, Quantum Dots, and More
This month’s Advanced Engineering Materials covers and top papers!
Multiplex FRET Biosensor Simplifies Nucleic Acid Detection
Time-gated FRET-based biosensors allow the quantification of multiple nucleic acids at low nanomolar concentrations using just a single donor–acceptor pair.
Shrinking quantum dots improves charge transfer
Single-particle study identifies possible path to improved conversion of sunlight to electricity in photovoltaic devices.
Book Review: Biosensor Nanomaterials
Biosensor nanomaterials, edited by Songjun Li, Jagdish Singh, He Li, and Ipsita A. Banerjee, reviewed by Professor Luisa Torsi from the University of Bari.
Optomechanical sensors improve phonon studies
Researchers applying optomechnical systems to help unlock vibrational secrets of chemical and biological samples at the nanoscale.
Electrospun Light-Emitting Nanofibers: From Lab-On-A-Chip Devices to Optical Sensors
Italian researchers review the properties of electrospun light-emitting nanofibers.
Spiky sensors: pressure and temperature responsive composites
New material could be perfect for tactile sensors for robot hands
Warm atoms for a long memory: Implementing quantum computing
One of the exciting potential applications of electromagnetically induced transparency and slow and stored light is for practical realization of quantum memory, and, ultimately, quantum computing. Recent advances using ensembles of warm atoms in vapor cells have been made.
Carbon Nanotubes and Nanosensors
The main properties that make carbon nanotubes (CNTs) a promising technology for many future applications are: extremely high strength, low mass density, linear elastic behavior, almost perfect geometrical structure, and nanometer scale structure. Also, CNTs...