Optical Memory in a Microfabricated Vapor Cell

I’m proud and happy to say that I’ve been working for quite a long time now for Prof. Philippe Treutlein, at Basel University. Happy because they are a particularly nice group of people and proud because they are quite ahead of their game. This time they’ve made it to the cover of Physical Review Letters […]

Taming Spin Waves

Big changes are about to happen in information technology. Spin waves, the collective spin excitations of magnetic materials, can be used to transmit information. That, provided we learn how to control and manipulate them. M. Borst et al. at Toeno van der Sar lab, had just published a new breakthrough on this area. They’ve proved that […]

Shortening bridges

Castellanos-GĂłmez Lab is kind of obsessed with cheap production techniques of 2D materials. They’ve proved this multiple times on the past by developing imaginative ways of producing and laying 2D materials over cheap substrates or using low-cost and accessible procedures. This time they’ve come up with a way to mechanically exfoliate van der Waals nanosheets […]

Cell spheroids and microfluidics

Putting cells together in a ball (cell spheroids) allows us to mimic the environment of biological tissues. At the department of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, a group of researchers have developed a strategy to study this spheroids mechanical properties using a glass capillary micropipette aspiration based technique. This research, lead by Pouyan Boukany […]

Busy as a bee

It’s been a few months without posting material. That doesn’t mean we haven’t been working! It is just that sometimes we can not talk about our projects due to clients privacy policies. And sometimes it is just that we have no time to do it. So we thought it would be a good idea to […]

Tailoring Metal–Organic Frameworks

Felipe Gándara et al. at Materials Science Institute of Madrid has developed a new method to prepare metal–organic frameworks with specific combinations of metal elements. The funny thing (to me) is that this method reminds me of how ribosomes build proteins. Using molecular complexes with the desired metal-atom combinations as building blocks, they’re able to […]

Memristors Showing and Resistive Switching

Our good friend Prof. Mario Lanza is doing great at his new position in KAUST. And his last article has been featured in the cover of Advanced Electronic Materials. I this work they discuss the operating temperature of memristors which happen to be very low, making them suitable for electronic devices with low consumption.

The synaptic connection

It is easy to understand how important the formation of correct synaptic connections is during neural circuitry formation. The Teneurin family of proteins promotes these connections between cells playing an essential role in neuron-neuron adhesion. At the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience (TUDelft) together with the Utrecht University have resolved the dimeric ectodomain of human Teneurin4 […]

La Saga de la Tercera Hija

What if we told the history of the Earth as a creation myth? This is La Saga de la Tercera Hija, which sadly does not have an English version yet. A very personal project that I’ve enjoyed making during the last couple of years. Hope you enjoy it too. Download it here!