Well known for her contributions to polymer chemistry and organic nanomaterials, Bin Liu has had a dazzling career in the field of organic functional materials.
Researchers build the first biocomputers from heart cells and demonstrate their ability to perform complex computational tasks. Physical systems, including biological systems, have a natural
Researchers uncover the mystery of how viruses avoid encapsulating unwanted genetic material from the crowded cell cytoplasm. Image credit: Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library Understanding the
A team of chemical engineers has created a pilot-scale photoreactor for making chemicals using just carbon dioxide and sunlight. Making fuel from carbon dioxide and
A new hypothesis explores how potassium came to be the dominant biological cation. Image credit: Dan-Cristian Pădureț on Unsplash Why is it that in all
A new model helped researchers create a “nanotube color atlas”, which they use to predict the specific colors of 466 different single‐wall carbon nanotubes, revealing
AI and robotics meet fluidics to accelerate materials development, allowing researchers to create quantum dots in under an hour. Image credit: Milad Abolhasani, NC State
The quantum computer named Jiuzhang was able to complete a task 100 trillion times faster than one of the world’s fastest super computers. In an
Researchers successfully grow 3D brain tissue on fully-integrated microchips for neural biosensing applications. 3D neural cell assemblies, or brain organoids, are a rapidly growing and
Image credit: Science Photo Library/Getty Images This week, the artificial intelligence (AI) program, AlphaFold, developed by Google’s DeepMind, has solved a decades-old problem in biology:
