Switchable adhesion principle enables damage-free handling of sensitive devices even in vacuum

Components with highly sensitive surfaces are used in automotive, semiconductor and display technologies as well as for complex optical lens systems. During the production, these parts often have to be handled many times by pick-and-place processes. Each pick-up and release with conventional gripping systems involves the risk of either contamination...

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Possibilities for graphene-integrated polymer composites in dental prostheses ans medical implants

A larger proportion of our population is now living into their 80s and 90s and this has a great deal of influence on the frequency with which either partial and complete tooth loss occurs. There are other causes of edentulism outside of an ageing demographic of course - congenital absence, trauma, dental...

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Nanotechnology platform shows promise for treating pancreatic cancer

Scientists at UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have combined their nanotechnology expertise to create a new treatment that may solve some of the problems of using chemotherapy to treat pancreatic cancer. The study, published online in the journal ("Use of a Lipid-Coated Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle Platform...

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