The use of an imperfect 2D material, contrary to conventional approaches, was found to increase carrier mobility by two orders at room temperature. This discovery paves a smoother path to 2D materials for semiconductors.
Jul 27th, 2022
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The sophisticated artificial skin sweats where and how much the researchers want it to.
Jul 27th, 2022
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Researchers have developed nanodiamonds to detect temperatures on the nanoscale inside cells and organelles.
Jul 27th, 2022
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A novel antifouling nanofiltration membrane for various types of industrial liquid separation applies new knowledge about the role of pore size distribution in filtration.
Jul 27th, 2022
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The octahedral molecular sieve (OMS-1) is a very powerful manganese oxide-based catalyst, and researchers have found a remarkably simple way to synthesize it.
Jul 27th, 2022
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A vaccination as tumor therapy - with a vaccine individually created from a patient's tissue sample that "'attaches' the body's own immune system to cancer cells: a team of researchers has now achieved the basis for this long-term vision.
Jul 27th, 2022
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Researchers used straightforward chemical synthesis to modulate the phase transition of a thermal conductivity-switching block copolymer. Reversible changes in the nanostructured anisotropy in the material corresponded to an approximately two-fold change in the thermal conductivity.
Jul 27th, 2022
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The interface between gases and liquids is found throughout nature. It is also important to many industrial processes. To improve understanding of the gas-liquid interface, researchers have developed an apparatus to study reactions between gas molecules and highly volatile liquids with new levels of detail.
Jul 27th, 2022
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Scientists observe nanoparticles ripening in solution at record-breaking resolution.
Jul 26th, 2022
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On-chip spectrometer, silicon nanowires determine light spectrum, angle.
Jul 26th, 2022
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Assembling Lego-like 2D heterostructures can give rise to emergent properties and functionalities very different from the intrinsic characteristics of the constituents.
Jul 26th, 2022
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Nature creates layered materials like bone and mother-of-pearl that become less sensitive to defects as they grow. Now researchers have created, using biomimetic proteins patterned on squid ring teeth, composite layered 2D materials that are resistant to breaking and extremely stretchable.
Jul 25th, 2022
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New research unveils the atomic-scale friction of a single tungsten asperity, or rough edge, in real time, showing atomic motion for the first time with electron microscopy.
Jul 25th, 2022
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Liquid film can function as optical memory, enabling new architectural horizons for nanoscale neuromorphic computing.
Jul 25th, 2022
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The smallest semiconductor composed of only 27 atoms, the Cd14Se13 cluster, has an interesting core-cage structure.
Jul 25th, 2022
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The challenges of implementing atomic and close-to-atomic scale manufacturing lie not only in the extreme small scale at which it can be machined, but also in the fundamental understanding of atomic interactions, which are based on the quantum theory rather than classical theory.
Jul 25th, 2022
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