Tag: Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
A new spin on materials analysis
Researchers Koichiro Yaji and Shunsuke Tsuda at the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan have developed an improved type of microscope that can...
Kirigami hydrogels rise from cellulose film
New options for making finely structured soft, flexible and expandable materials called hydrogels have been developed by researchers at Tokyo University of...
Sensing structure without touching
Touch sensors that don't even need direct contact offer new sensitivity for robotic 3D structure recognition and wireless transmission of...
Nano-sized probes reveal how cellular structure responds to pressure
By giving living cells a ‘nano-poke’ and monitoring the resulting changes in the intra-cellular environment, researchers have gotten their first glimpse of...
Machine learning techniques improve X-ray materials analysis
Researchers of RIKEN at Japan’s state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation facility, SPring-8, and their collaborators, have developed a faster and simpler way to carry...
A bio-inspired twist on robotic handling
The subtle adhesive forces that allow geckos to seemingly defy gravity, cling to walls and walk across ceilings have inspired a team...
GPT-4 artificial intelligence shows some competence in chemistry
The latest 'large language model' artificial intelligence system, GPT-4, could aid chemistry researchers, but limitations reveal the need for improvements.
Closing the loop between artificial intelligence and robotic experiments
The powers of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic experiment systems have come together in pioneering proof-of-concept work at the National Institute...
Machine intelligence for designing molecules and reaction pathways
Two key challenges in chemistry innovation are solved simultaneously by exploring chemical opportunities with artificial intelligence.
Researchers in Japan...
Face-down: Gravity’s effects on cell movement
Specially coated surfaces help scientists investigate what happens when cell clusters are turned upside down.
Researchers at the National...