Geometry of intricately fabricated glass makes light trap itself
Light interacts with itself to form self-sustaining waves in an artificial topological material.
Jun 22nd, 2020
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Fluorocarbon bonds are no match for light-powered nanocatalyst
Engineers have created a light-powered catalyst that can break the strong chemical bonds in fluorocarbons, a group of synthetic materials that includes persistent environmental pollutants.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read morePurifying water with a partly coated gold nanoparticle
'Janus' nanorods convert light to heat that can destroy pollutants.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read moreDesign method may boost semiconductor performance by better handling heat
Researchers report that a fabrication technique may offer a path toward mastering the often chaotic flow of heat carriers at the nanoscale in silicon and other semiconductors.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read moreStrainoptronics: A new way to control photons
Researchers create first efficient 2D material photodetector for telecom wavelengths.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read moreRobotic soft matter mimics living creatures (w/video)
When hit with light, the film-thin materials come alive -- bending, rotating and even crawling on surfaces.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read moreWorld's fastest Bose-Einstein condensate
Researchers have created a Bose-Einstein condensate with record speed, creating the fascinating phase of matter in about 100 femtoseconds.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read moreA fresh twist in chiral topology
Electrons in chiral crystals, solid-state materials with definite handedness, can behave in unexpected ways. An interdisciplinary research team has realized now a theoretically predicted peculiar electronic state in a chiral compound, PtGa, from the class of topological materials.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read moreNIH grant to bioprint nanoparticles for ovarian cancer immunotherapy
The particles will be produced using 3D-bioprinting, enabling them to be released at specified intervals, instead of a continuous slow release.
Jun 19th, 2020
Read morePolymers can fine-tune attractions between suspended nanocubes
Interactions between hollow silica nanocubes suspended in a solution can be adjusted by varying the concentration of polymer molecules added to the mixture.
Jun 19th, 2020
Read moreResearchers pioneer new production method for heterostructure devices based on 2D materials
The new study focuses on a production method, based around mechanical abrasion, where multilayer structures are formed through directly abrading different Van der Waals material powders directly on top of one another.
Jun 19th, 2020
Read moreEngineers design a device that operates like a brain synapse
Ion-based technology may enable energy-efficient simulations of the brain's learning process, for neural network AI systems.
Jun 19th, 2020
Read more'Nanotorch' highlights ultrafast biochemical reactions
Researchers used single nanoparticles that illuminate single fluorescent molecules to detect ultrafast biochemical reactions.
Jun 19th, 2020
Read moreThe new architecture of science: Learning from graphene
What does it mean to design a science lab today? What are the new challenges for the architects of science buildings? And what is the best method to study the constantly evolving architectures of science?
Jun 19th, 2020
Read moreResearchers create a photographic film of a molecular switch
Molecular switches are the molecular counterparts of electrical switches and play an important role in many processes in nature. Nanotechnologist now produced a photographic film at the atomic level and thus tracked the motion of a molecular building block.
Jun 18th, 2020
Read moreGraphene smart textiles developed for heat adaptive clothing
New research on the two-dimensional material graphene has allowed researchers to create smart adaptive clothing which can lower the body temperature of the wearer in hot climates.
Jun 18th, 2020
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