Phosphorene nanoribbons live up to hype in first demonstration
Researchers have incorporated phosphorene nanoribbons into new types of solar cells, dramatically improving their efficiency.
Dec 20th, 2021
Read moreResearchers have incorporated phosphorene nanoribbons into new types of solar cells, dramatically improving their efficiency.
Dec 20th, 2021
Read moreResearchers have created a semiconductor material that acts like a second skin layer and is up to 200% more stretchable than its original dimension without significantly losing its electric current.
Dec 20th, 2021
Read moreResearchers have discovered that the many-body effects, particularly the electronic quantum correlation, can be tuned in metallic vdW monolayers through moire engineering.
Dec 20th, 2021
Read moreResearchers managed to use light to very precisely control the formation of nanocomposites in the shape of corals and vases. By illuminating a solution of the right ingredients with UV light, they can control where, when and which structures arise at the micrometer scale.
Dec 17th, 2021
Read moreAtomic-scale magnetic patterns resembling a hedgehog's spikes could result in hard disks with massively larger capacities than today's devices, a new study suggests. The finding could help data centers keep up with the exponentially increasing demand for video and cloud data storage.
Dec 17th, 2021
Read moreChemists succeeded in synthesizing particularly complex mesocrystals with largely unknown chemical and physical properties and in shedding light on their structure.
Dec 17th, 2021
Read moreScientists have shown that they can manipulate single skyrmions - tiny magnetic vortices that could be used as computing bits in future ultra-dense information storage devices - using pulses of electric current, at room temperature.
Dec 17th, 2021
Read moreResearchers have developed a novel nanoporous gating system that can precisely control and observe dynamic gating processes.
Dec 17th, 2021
Read moreAn AI framework enables scientists to improve a decades-old imaging technique.
Dec 17th, 2021
Read moreAn international research team has developed a material that, when coated on a glass window panel, can effectively self-adapt to heat or cool rooms across different climate zones in the world, helping to cut energy usage.
Dec 16th, 2021
Read moreResearchers describe how nanodiamond-reinforced composite membranes can purify hydrogen from its humid mixtures, making the hydrogen generation processes vastly more efficient and cost-effective.
Dec 16th, 2021
Read moreResearchers study the interaction between lithium atoms and barium ion isolated in ultrahigh vacuum and trapped using light traps.
Dec 16th, 2021
Read moreThis new work constitutes a proof of concept for graphene whisperitronic devices.
Dec 16th, 2021
Read moreResearchers have discovered that negative capacitance could lower the energy used in electronics and computing, which represents 8% of global electricity demand.
Dec 16th, 2021
Read moreThe trade-off between carrier mobility and stability in amorphous oxide semiconductor-based thin film transistors (TFTs) has been finally overcome in an ingeniously fabricated indium tin zinc oxide TFT. This could pave the way for the design of display technologies that are cheaper than current silicon-based technologies.
Dec 16th, 2021
Read moreNew findings could help the design of industrially relevant quantum materials for sensing, computing and communication.
Dec 15th, 2021
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