Graphene grows – and we can see it

28-Mar-2023 - Graphene is the strongest of all materials. On top of that, it is exceptionally good at conducting heat and electrical currents, making it one of the most special and versatile materials we know. For all these reasons, the discovery of graphene was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. Yet, ...

The behavior of water

New properties of H2O

15-Aug-2018 - A team of scientists has uncovered new molecular properties of water--a discovery of a phenomenon that had previously gone unnoticed. Liquid water is known to be an excellent transporter of its own autoionization products; that is, the charged species obtained when a water molecule (H2O) is split ...

Chemists develop MRI-like technique to detect what ails batteries

04-May-2018 - A team of chemists has developed an MRI-based technique that can quickly diagnose what ails certain types of batteries--from determining how much charge remains to detecting internal defects--without opening them up. "The use of alternative energy and electrically powered vehicles will further ...

New device for low-cost single-cell analysis identifies fibroblast subtypes in RA patients

26-Feb-2018 - Single-cell analysis holds enormous potential to study how individual cells influence disease and respond to treatment, but the lack of cost-effective and user-friendly instrumentation remains challenging. As described in a study researchers at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) and New York ...

Looking for a City’s DNA? Try Its ATMs

18-Nov-2016 - Automated teller machine keypads in New York City hold microbes from human skin, household surfaces, or traces of food, a study by NYU researchers has found. The work shows that ATMs can provide a repository to offer a picture of a city’s DNA. Automated teller machine keypads in New York City ...

Gold nanoparticles show promise for early detection of heart attacks

20-Jan-2015 - NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering professors have been collaborating with researchers from Peking University on a new test strip that is demonstrating great potential for the early detection of certain heart attacks.Kurt H. Becker, a professor in the Department of Applied Physics and the ...

Rice's origins point to China, genome researchers conclude

04-May-2011 - Rice originated in China, a team of genome researchers has concluded in a study tracing back thousands of years of evolutionary history through large-scale gene re-sequencing. Their findings, which appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), indicate that domesticated rice ...

NYU Langone scientists are first to sequence the genomes of 2 ant species

Research may help unlock the mysteries of human aging and behavior

30-Aug-2010 - Scientists have finally sequenced the entire genome of an ant, actually two very different species of ant, and the insights gleaned from their genetic blueprints are already yielding tantalizing clues to the extraordinary social behavior of ants. A result of a collaborative research project led ...

NYU physicists find way to explore microscopic systems through holographic video

23-Jul-2009 - Physicists at New York University have developed a technique to record three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video. The work, which is reported in Optics Express, has potential to improve medical diagnostics and drug discovery. The ...

NYU researchers create method to precisely glue particles together on the micro- and nano-scale

16-Jun-2009 - Researchers at New York University have created a method to precisely bind nano- and micrometer-sized particles together into larger-scale structures with useful materials properties. Their work, which appears in the latest issue of the journal Nature Materials, overcomes the problem of ...