A new study reveals the thermal transport properties of ultrathin crystals of molybdenum diselenide, a two-dimensional material of the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) family. Outperforming silicon, TMD materials prove to be outstanding candidates for electronic and optoelectronic applications, such as flexible and wearable devices.
Feb 1st, 2022
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Scientists develop organic microparticles that can steer through biological fluids and dissolved blood in unprecedented ways. Even in very salty liquids, the microswimmers can be propelled forward at high speed by visible light, either individually or as a swarm.
Feb 1st, 2022
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Scientists are using machine-learning techniques to streamline the process of synthesizing graphene from waste through flash Joule heating.
Jan 31st, 2022
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How do you integrate as much as possible of the 2D material graphene into a limited space? By producing it not on a flat surface, but on a 3D nanostructure.
Jan 31st, 2022
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A tiny gyroscope that would fit in a human cell and that can be controlled from the outside.
Jan 31st, 2022
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Twelve years of intense work are now bearing fruit - researchers have developed unique carbon materials with quite astonishing, hitherto unattained electronic and magnetic properties, which one day could be used to build quantum computers with novel architectures.
Jan 31st, 2022
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A novel hybrid ferritin nanocage with histidine residues shows 1.5 times higher metal ion uptake and improved catalytic efficiency for alcohol production. These findings suggest that hybrid bio-nanocages could effectively catalyze reactions to yield industrially important products.
Jan 31st, 2022
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Researchers have succeeded in using nanowires of a transition-metal chalcogenide to make atomically thin nanoribbons.
Jan 29th, 2022
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Humans experience the world in three dimensions, but scientists have developed a way to create synthetic dimensions to better understand the fundamental laws of the Universe and possibly apply them to advanced technologies.
Jan 28th, 2022
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Drilling with the beam of an electron microscope, scientists precisely machined tiny electrically conductive cubes that can interact with light and organized them in patterned structures that confine and relay light's electromagnetic signal. This demonstration is a step toward potentially faster computer chips and more perceptive sensors.
Jan 28th, 2022
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Scientists obtained a catalyst composed of the hollow carbon sphere and inner Ni nanoparticles, which displayed good performance when applied in the aqueous phase hydrogenation rearrangement tandem reaction of furfural, a typical aqueous phase reaction.
Jan 28th, 2022
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Researchers have fabricated a material for computer components that enable the commercial viability of computers that mimic the human brain.
Jan 28th, 2022
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Work has potential applications in memory storage and demonstrates a rare form of matter.
Jan 28th, 2022
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A newly created nano-architected material exhibits a property that previously was just theoretically possible: it can refract light backward, regardless of the angle at which the light strikes the material.
Jan 28th, 2022
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The key to this novel technique is that the nanotubes pull the liposomes and the cancer cells together, allowing the membranes of the liposome and cancer to mix. This fusion process allows the drug to freely pass from the liposome to the cell.
Jan 28th, 2022
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Researchers used the 2D material hexagonal boron nitride to build much smaller capacitors for superconducting qubits, enabling them to shrink the footprint of a qubit by two orders of magnitude without sacrificing performance.
Jan 27th, 2022
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