Science

New sensors to combat the proliferation of bacteria in very high-humidity environments

The Telecommunications Engineer Aitor Urrutia-Azcona has designed some humidity sensors with anti-bacterial properties that combat the proliferation of micro-organisms in environments where the humidity level is very high, such as hospitals and...

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Converting solar energy into electric power via photobioelectrochemical cells

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Novel photo-bioelectrochemical cells point to a new method to photonically drive biocatalytic fuel cells while generating electrical...

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Quantum knots are real!

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Visualization of the structure of the created quantum knot. Each colorful band represents a set of nearby directions of the quantum field...

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Antibacterial Nanocomposites Designed in Iran for Foodstuff Packaging

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Cheaper solar cells with 20.2 percent efficiency

Some of the most promising solar cells today use light-harvesting films made from perovskites - a group of materials that share a characteristic molecular structure. However, perovskite-based solar cells use expensive "hole-transporting" materials,...

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Light-activated nanoparticles prove effective against antibiotic-resistant 'superbugs'

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Salmonella bacteria under a microscope.

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FAU researchers develop nanoparticles for biomedical applications

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Nanodevice, build thyself: Researchers in Germany studied how a multitude of electronic interactions govern the encounter between a molecule called porphine and copper and silver surfaces

Successful self-assembly is an elaborately choreographed dance, in which the attractive and repulsive forces within molecules, between each molecule and its neighbors, and between molecules and the surface that supports them, have to all be taken into...

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