A household microwave oven modified by an engineering professor is helping to cook up the next generation of cellphones, computers and other electronics after the invention was shown to overcome a major challenge faced by the semiconductor industry.
Sep 9th, 2022
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Researchers have developed an electro-optic frequency comb that is 100-times more efficient and has more than twice the bandwidth of previous state-of-the-art versions.
Sep 8th, 2022
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Working on microscopic pipes only a millionth as wide as a single strand of human hair, researchers have engineered a way to ensure that these tiniest of pipes are safe from the tiniest of leaks.
Sep 7th, 2022
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New results give information about phase transitions at the nanoscale.
Sep 7th, 2022
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Chemists synthesised a new class of carbazole-based cross-linkable materials, which are resistant to various environmental effects, including strong solvents used in the production of solar cells.
Sep 7th, 2022
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Researchers have now achieved full nanometer-scale control of the skyrmion generation by two independent approaches employing helium-ion irradiation or using backside reflective masks.
Sep 7th, 2022
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Researchers add pump-probe capability to a scanning tunneling microscopy system to allow time-resolved images to be captured as fast as 30 femtoseconds, which can accelerate material science research.
Sep 7th, 2022
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Researchers have pioneered a new chemical process to manufacture the molecules that are the building blocks for lifesaving medicines, vaccines and energy storage materials.
Sep 7th, 2022
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Physicists demonstrated a new magnetized state in a monolayer of tungsten ditelluride. Called a magnetized or ferromagnetic quantum spin Hall insulator, this material of one-atom thickness has an insulating interior but a conducting edge, which has important implications for controlling electron flow in nanodevices.
Sep 7th, 2022
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The natural world possesses its own intrinsic electrical grid composed of a global web of tiny bacteria-generated nanowires in the soil and oceans that 'breathe' by exhaling excess electrons.
Sep 7th, 2022
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This composite membrane utilized the characteristics of large-scale preparation and MXene membrane reducibility, allowing the biosensor to realize good accuracy and stability in exosome determination.
Sep 5th, 2022
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Researchers have found that a MoS2 nanosheets-based vacancy materials activated by permonosulfate enables efficient anaerobic microorganisms disinfection.
Sep 5th, 2022
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Researchers have coupled two types of electron-hole pairs - interlayer and intralayer pairs - by bringing the two of them to similar energies. They can therefore tailor-make merged particles that are not only very bright but also interact very strongly with one another.
Sep 5th, 2022
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Scientists describe the formation of a superdense monolayer of hydrogen on highly ordered mesoporous silica near the boiling temperature.
Sep 5th, 2022
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A team of physicists and chemists presents an organic thin-film sensor that describes a completely new way of identifying the wavelength of light and achieves a spectral resolution below one nanometer.
Sep 5th, 2022
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New research provides a deeper understanding of how the line width in microcombs works, something that will, among other things, enable even more precise measurements in the future.
Sep 5th, 2022
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