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Category: 4. Physics
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Contact-free magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy with acoustic levitation
Acoustic levitation
The design of the acoustic levitator was optimized22, and consisted of 18 × 2 demagnetized, ultrasonic transducers, positioned in a hexagonal arrangement. The levitator presented high acoustic levitation forces and…
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Quantum sensors tested for next-generation particle physics experiments
To learn more about the nature of matter, energy, space, and time, physicists smash high-energy particles together in large accelerator machines, creating sprays of millions of particles per second of a variety of masses and speeds. The…
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Active Polymers Tie Themselves in Knots
• Physics 18, s55
Simulations show that polymers that include inert and self-propelled components are more likely to form and retain knots, with possible applications in materials engineering.
Long molecules can become…
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Diamonds Are a Fish’s Best Friend
• Physics 18, s52
Fish swimming in vertical diamond formations gain efficiency through hydrodynamic interactions.
Fish travel in schools to defend against predators, improve navigation, and increase opportunities for…
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Enhanced detection of glioblastoma vasculature with superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles and MRI
Materials
The nanoparticles evaluated in this study are novel magnetite(Fe3O4)-based, methoxy-PEG-coated SPIONs28. PEG-SPIONs (mPEG PrecisionMRX) were sourced commercially and received in aqueous solutions with elemental iron concentrations…
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An interpretable approach to estimate the self-motion in fish-like robots using mode decomposition analysis
Interpretable mode decomposition
The fish-like robot (Fig. 1a and detailed in the “Methods” section) is inspired by boxfish (Ostracion cubicum) in nature. Its density is slightly less than one so that almost the entire body is submerged below…
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Coherent energy transfer in coupled nonlinear microelectromechanical resonators
Design and characterization of the coupled resonators
The proposed coupled micromechanical resonators system (Fig. 1a) was constructed with two double-ended-tuning-fork (DETF) resonators connected via a mechanical disc coupler anchored at the…
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Fluctuation-driven topological Hall effect in room-temperature itinerant helimagnet Fe3Ga4
Crystal structure and complex magnetic phase diagram of Fe3Ga4
Our target material crystallises in a centrosymmetric structure shown in Fig. 1b with the monoclinic unit cell (C2/m, a = 10.0966(5) Å, b = 7.6650(4)…
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Experimental study on isothermal adsorption and desorption characteristics and influencing factors of transitional facies shale gas
Analysis of the adsorption/desorption curves
The experimental results showed that the adsorption and desorption curves do not overlap, with the desorption curve lying above the adsorption curve. This phenomenon can be attributed to the hysteresis…
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