The breakthrough came on molecular biologist Christopher Garcia’s birthday. For more than 20 years, his team and others around the world had been chasing an elusive quarry – the 3D structure of a ...

Schematic diagram of the desalination and salt resistance mechanism of this Janus sponge-like hydrogel solar evaporator. Image Credit: Aqiang Chu Although conventional usage of hydrogels in ...

(Nanowerk News) A Janus structure is composed of two or more components with different (usually opposite) physical and chemical properties. Janus nanoparticles possess multiple surface structures that ...

Janus materials have distinct surfaces on their opposite faces. Graphene, a two-dimensional giant molecule, provides an excellent candidate to fabricate the thinnest Janus discs and study the ...

More than two decades of effort went into a project that has now revealed the structure of a crucial signaling molecule, opening the door to new and better drugs for some cancers. For more than 20 ...