Oxygen breathes new life into solar cell research
A world-first in light conversion has potential future implications for solar photovoltaics, biomedical imaging, drug delivery and photocatalysis.
Jul 21st, 2020
Read moreA world-first in light conversion has potential future implications for solar photovoltaics, biomedical imaging, drug delivery and photocatalysis.
Jul 21st, 2020
Read more'Mysterious' vibrational properties of nanoscale glasses have been studied by subjecting novel (and slightly explosive) particles of aluminium wrapped in a thin alumina skin to neutron spectroscopy measurement.
Jul 21st, 2020
Read morePhysicists have taken extremely fast snapshots of light-induced molecular ring-opening reactions -- similar to those that help a human body produce vitamin D from sunlight.
Jul 20th, 2020
Read moreLipid-based devices mimic brain-like processing.
Jul 20th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have significantly increased the coherence time of a spin-orbit qubit in silicon, allowing them to preserve quantum information for longer. These results open up a new pathway to scale silicon quantum computers.
Jul 20th, 2020
Read moreA team of researchers has developed a high-precision technology to carve tiny patterns into atomically thin particles for potential applications in manufacturing electronic and photonic nanodevices.
Jul 20th, 2020
Read moreSome molecules exist in two different configurations, one being the mirror image of the other, with right and left side reversed. Normally, it is extremely difficult to produce only one of these two variants. Specially treated gold clusters are now supposed to help.
Jul 20th, 2020
Read moreA new finding about the fundamental chemistry of two-dimensional materials called MXenes will change the way researchers work with them, and open up new areas of applications.
Jul 20th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have developed a new battery material that could enable long-range electric vehicles that can drive for hundreds of miles on a single charge, and electric planes called eVTOLs for fast, environmentally friendly commutes.
Jul 20th, 2020
Read moreCoral-type, high-efficiency, silver nano catalyst electrode developed for large areas; basis established for the commercialization of an electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion system that uses carbon dioxide in a gaseous state.
Jul 20th, 2020
Read moreMagnetic nanodiscs can be activated by an external magnetic field, providing a research tool for studying neural responses.
Jul 20th, 2020
Read moreFaster and simpler production of high-resolution, three-dimensional electron microscopy images of biomolecules .
Jul 20th, 2020
Read moreThe proposed heavy metal sensor is based on graphene oxide functionalized micro-tapered long-period fiber grating where light-matter interaction is enhanced.
Jul 20th, 2020
Read moreThis new material, which could be used in the security and health and safety industries, can turn back the force of a cutting tool upon itself.
Jul 20th, 2020
Read moreFor the first time, a single, twisted nanoparticle has been accurately measured and characterised in a lab, taking scientists one vital step closer to a time when medicines will be produced and blended on a microscopic scale.
Jul 20th, 2020
Read moreThis substance, still in the laboratory phase, offers a number of advantages over those currently used: it reduces the adverse effects on the body, uses lower doses than usual, allows the compound to be targeted only at the affected area that needs to be visualized, and is very versatile, since the same substance can be used for different diagnostic tests.
Jul 20th, 2020
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