Just add salt to enhance the spatial resolution of single-molecule Raman spectroscopy
A thin substrate of sodium chloride aids the spectroscopic resolution of single-molecule vibrations.
Mar 27th, 2020
Read moreA thin substrate of sodium chloride aids the spectroscopic resolution of single-molecule vibrations.
Mar 27th, 2020
Read moreVibronic coherence contributes to photocurrent generation in organic semiconductor heterojunction diodes.
Mar 26th, 2020
Read moreScientists demonstrated how the conversion of a plant derivative into fuels and other valuable chemicals can be achieved by loading single atoms of platinum onto titanium dioxide.
Mar 26th, 2020
Read moreResearchers in the cancer nanomedicine community debate whether use nanoparticles can best deliver drug therapy to tumors passively. Now, new research on human and mouse tumors in mice suggests the question is even more complicated.
Mar 26th, 2020
Read moreAn international team of researchers show how to take advantage of the natural interaction of 2D materials with air to reduce their thickness with (sub-)monolayer precision.
Mar 26th, 2020
Read moreEngineers wonder whether this tried and true precious metal, found in the bowels of most electronic devices, can stand up to the strain of next-generation data processing.
Mar 26th, 2020
Read moreOne algorithm replaces countless time-consuming experiments.
Mar 26th, 2020
Read moreScientists have synthesized a new thin film that could make energy production more efficient and cleaner.
Mar 26th, 2020
Read moreThe nanocomposite was developed through the assembly of gold nanobipyramids on black phosphorus nanosheets. This nanocomposite could simultaneously enhance singlet oxygen generation and hyperthermia by localized surface plasmon resonance in cancer therapy.
Mar 26th, 2020
Read moreThis discovery may be fundamental for the understanding and design of new, nanometric size, opto-electronic devices which will be key for the development of new technologies based on quantum properties, such as sensors or quantum computers.
Mar 25th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have demonstrated 3D printed complex objects with higher cellulose content than that of any other additively manufactured cellulose-?based parts. To achieve this, they used a clever trick.
Mar 25th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have developed a nanodevice that operates more than 10 times faster than today's fastest transistors.
Mar 25th, 2020
Read moreThe 'coffee ring effect' has fascinated scientists for decades, but now a team says they have uncovered the mechanism behind an even more striking, web-like pattern that forms when drops of whiskey dry up.
Mar 25th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have implemented a new material engineering method to fabricate a laser microdisk in strained Germanium-Tin (GeSn) alloy. They demonstrate for the first time the laser device with a group IV compound, compatible with Silicon, operating with ultra-low threshold and under continuous wave excitation.
Mar 25th, 2020
Read moreScientists have shed light on how excitons - an excited state of matter at the core of optoelectronics - move and interact within phosphorene.
Mar 25th, 2020
Read moreTo design these nanolasers, researchers combined arrays of nanopillars with nanoparticles that can absorb two photons of light and emit them as a single photon with higher energy.
Mar 24th, 2020
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