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  Vladimir Baulin

  

  Researchers develop a nano-antenna that forms a near field of circularly polarized light

  phys.org - Kobe University

  A research group from Kobe University in Japan have proposed and tested a nano-antenna that uses the specific optical resonance of dielectric …

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  Vladimir Baulin

  

  A novel technique to observe colloidal particle degradation in real time

  phys.org - by Shinshu University

  In the early 2000s, scientists from the UK made a worrisome discovery that the oceans are teeming with small particles of plastic (less than one …

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  Vladimir Baulin

  

  Protein serves as a breaking point for cell membrane rupture during cell death

  phys.org - Katrin Bühler

  Every day, millions of cells die in our body. Cells do not simply burst at the end of their lives but rather, a specific protein serves as a breaking …

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  Vladimir Baulin

  

  Nanobiotics: AI for discovering where and how nanoparticles bind with proteins

  phys.org - Kate McAlpine

  Identifying whether and how a nanoparticle and protein will bind with one another is an important step toward being able to design antibiotics and …

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  Vladimir Baulin

  

  UK's research evaluation system pushes academics to churn out lower-quality research, new study shows

  phys.org - Queen Mary

  The UK Government's research evaluation system encourages a higher quantity and lower quality of work from academics, according to a paper published …

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  Vladimir Baulin

  

  Packing and emergence of the ordering of rods in a spherical monolayer

  rsc.org

  Issue 1, 2023 From the journal:Soft Matter Packing and emergence of the ordering of rods in a spherical monolayer† Dharanish Rajendra, a Jaydeep Mandal, a …