Nanoparticles: The complex rhythm of chemistry (w/video)
Nanoparticles are often used as catalysts. The chemical reactions on their surface are more complex than previously thought, experiments show.
May 21st, 2021
Read moreNanoparticles are often used as catalysts. The chemical reactions on their surface are more complex than previously thought, experiments show.
May 21st, 2021
Read moreResearchers have revealed a new method that enables common laboratory scanning electron microscopes to see graphene growing over a microchip surface in real time.
May 21st, 2021
Read moreScientists discover that laser-driven rearrangement of just a few gold atoms inside nanoscale antennas can be observed by the naked eye.
May 21st, 2021
Read morePhysicists make unique broadband polarization rotators with ultrathin carbon nanotube films. The rotators extend to the terahertz, which could simplify devices for use in telecommunications, security and manufacturing.
May 21st, 2021
Read moreScientists have discovered that the chirality of the helimagnetic state is memorized as the domain wall helicity after the phase transition to an achiral ferromagnetic state at a high temperature in a helimagnet MnP.
May 21st, 2021
Read moreResearchers have discovered a new carbon network, which is atomically thin like graphene, but is made up of squares, hexagons, and octagons forming an ordered lattice.
May 20th, 2021
Read moreCo-planar optoelectrowetting device allows for droplet access from above that increases microfluidic input/output system integration configurations while achieving faster droplet speeds.
May 20th, 2021
Read moreScientists have found a way to use visible light to transform carbon dioxide gas, or CO2, into solid carbon forms that emit light. This development creates a new, low-energy CO2 reduction pathway to solid carbon that will have implications across many fields.
May 20th, 2021
Read moreResearchers demonstrate the evaporation-driven transport-control of small molecules in gas-permeable and low-aspect-ratio nanoslits, wherein both the diffusive and advective mass transports of solutes are affected by solvent evaporation through the nanoslit walls.
May 20th, 2021
Read moreThe MESO-BRAIN project used human-induced pluripotent stem cells placed on nanoscale 3D-laser-printed structures to replicate the brain's neural networks.
May 20th, 2021
Read moreMicro-engineered, bioinspired design allows the material to collect moisture from cool fog as well as generating and collecting steam under sun.
May 20th, 2021
Read moreUsing an advanced microscopy technique, researchers have uncovered a twin boundary defect in a soft polymer that has never been observed before.
May 19th, 2021
Read moreScientists captured the average positions of the atoms in a perovskite crystal at different temperatures. They found that each lead atom and its surrounding cage of bromine atoms form rigid units that behave like molecules. These units oscillate - or jiggle back and forth - in a liquid-like manner.
May 19th, 2021
Read moreScientists observe a new kind of light emission when electrons in topological insulators abruptly reverse their direction of motion.
May 19th, 2021
Read moreWorld-leading eye experts have made a breakthrough that could potentially change the way cataracts are treated - with potential for drug therapy to replace surgery.
May 19th, 2021
Read moreScientists have presented a new search algorithm for single-atom-alloy catalysts (SAACs) that found more than 200 yet unreported candidates. Their work provides a recipe for finding best SAACs for various applications.
May 19th, 2021
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