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Highly reactive gold carbene complex shines in emerald green

With a chemical 'trick', scientists have succeeded in isolating a stable gold carbene complex. They are the first to have created the basis for directly examining the otherwise unstable gold-carbon double bond.

Jul 8th, 2014

Nanotechnology that will impact the Security and Defense sectors to be discussed at NanoSD2014

Nano for Security and Defense International Conference (NanoSD2014) will be held in Avila, Spain (September 23-26, 2014). The conference will provide an opportunity to discuss general issues and important impacts of nanotechnology in the development of security and defense.

Jul 8th, 2014

Silicon sponge improves lithium-ion battery performance

The lithium-ion batteries that power our laptops and electric vehicles could store more energy and run longer on a single charge with the help of a sponge-like silicon material. Researchers developed the porous material to replace the graphite traditionally used in one of the battery's electrodes, as silicon has more than 10 times the energy storage capacity of graphite.

Jul 8th, 2014

Flatlands - beyond graphene

Flatlands Beyond Graphene (FBG) 2014 will bring together world-leading experts in the area of 2D nanomaterials. It will focus on recent advances in controlling and characterising the properties of these materials, with a particular emphasis on electronic, photonic and spintronic applications.

Jul 8th, 2014

New nanoscale cooling element works in electrical insulators as well

Researchers have designed a miniscule cooling element that uses spin waves to transport heat in electrical insulators. The cooling element could be used to dissipate heat in the increasingly smaller electrical components of computer chips.

Jul 8th, 2014

Researchers achieve record efficiency for large-area industrial crystalline-silicon n-PERT solar cell

Nanoelectronics research center imec, reported today an n-type PERT crystalline silicon solar cell fabricated on a large area wafer reaching a top conversion efficiency of 21.5 percent. This is the highest efficiency achieved for this type of solar cell on an industrial large area wafer size.

Jul 8th, 2014

TAPPI's 'Nanotechnology for Renewable Nanomaterials' wraps up

Several key commercial announcements were made at this year's conference, highlighting the tangible growth in this emerging market area of renewable biopolymers.

Jul 8th, 2014

The quantum dance of oxygen

Under extremely high pressure conditions oxygen molecules group into quartets and give rise to a 'dance of their magnetic moments'. This results in magnetic properties never previously observed in these conditions and in theory points to the existence of a new phase of the element, called epsilon 1.

Jul 7th, 2014

Mystery solved how printed diode works

A thirteen-year-long mystery about a diode in printed electronics that works in the GHz band, has finally been solved.

Jul 7th, 2014

Nanoengineers develop next-generation battery

New technology yields potential for faster-charging, longer-lasting batteries to power future electronic devices.

Jul 7th, 2014

Researchers use nanoparticles to enhance chemotherapy

Researchers have developed a new formulation of cisplatin, a common chemotherapy drug, that significantly increases the drug's ability to target and destroy cancerous cells.

Jul 7th, 2014

The new atomic age: Building smaller, greener electronics

Researchers are working to engineer atomically precise technologies that have practical, real-world applications.

Jul 7th, 2014

Consider the 'anticrystal'

For the last century, the concept of crystals has been a mainstay of solid-state physics. Crystals are paragons of order; crystalline materials are defined by the repeating patterns their constituent atoms and molecules make. Now physicists have evidence that a new concept should undergird our understanding of most materials: the anticrystal, a theoretical solid that is completely disordered.