The new highly efficient metasurface switch needs no metal or backing material. This means detectors using the switch would be smaller, thinner, more efficient, and require less power.
Mar 24th, 2020
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Scientists have discovered a new method for creating hollow metallic nanostructures with regularly spaced and sized pores. The pores are large and regular enough to carry molecule or nanoscale-size particles of drugs and other substances.
Mar 24th, 2020
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Researchers discovered a new way to integrate semiconductor layers to make heterostructures. They found that layers of different compounds of tin and sulfur spontaneously separated during synthesis. This unique structure translates into excellent light absorption and energy transfer properties.
Mar 24th, 2020
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Scientists used silica micro-particles mixed into liquid crystals to investigate how atoms behave and interact. They explored optical control of hexagonal silica micro-particles whose surfaces were altered with dye molecules and dispersed in a liquid crystal.
Mar 24th, 2020
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Engineers have created a tiny device that can rapidly detect harmful bacteria in blood, allowing health care professionals to pinpoint the cause of potentially deadly infections and fight them with drugs.
Mar 24th, 2020
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Graphite nanoplatelets integrated into plastic medical surfaces can prevent infections, killing 99.99 per cent of bacteria which try to attach - a cheap and viable potential solution to a problem which affects millions, costs huge amounts of time and money, and accelerates antibiotic resistance.
Mar 23rd, 2020
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Graphil is a project that aims to create a market prototype for a new and improved way to purify water, using graphene.
Mar 23rd, 2020
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Scientists have revealed how the thermoelectric effect, or converting temperature differences into electricity, can be optimally used to power small, flexible devices. Their study has shown why thermoelectric device performance to date has not yet reached its full potential.
Mar 23rd, 2020
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Rsearchers have developed a novel wearable strain sensor based on the modulation of optical transmittance of a carbon nanotube (CNT)-embedded elastomer. The sensor is capable of sensitive, stable, and continuous measurement of physical signals.
Mar 23rd, 2020
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Scientists have developed a one-step fabrication process that improves the ability of nanocarbons to remove toxic heavy metal ions from water. The findings could aid efforts to improve universal access to clean water.
Mar 21st, 2020
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Automated Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) controlled by artificial intelligence. First demonstration of fully autonomous, long-term SPM operation.
Mar 19th, 2020
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Researchers are working to develop a holistic approach to green technology for water desalination and purification to meet societal demands.
Mar 19th, 2020
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Scientists proposed a new method of statistical analysis of intermolecular interactions and sizes of atoms.
Mar 19th, 2020
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Research team produces new nanosheets for near infrared imaging.
Mar 19th, 2020
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Researchers demonstrate robust supercapacitors that still work when stretched to 8 times their original size.
Mar 19th, 2020
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Prototype demonstrates the first selective, electrical detection of two pathogenic bacterial species.
Mar 19th, 2020
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