Nanotechnology enables engineers to weld previously un-weldable aluminum alloy
Super-strong but lightweight, AA 7075 now could be more widely used in automobiles and other manufacturing thanks to nanotechnology research.
Feb 12th, 2019
Read moreSuper-strong but lightweight, AA 7075 now could be more widely used in automobiles and other manufacturing thanks to nanotechnology research.
Feb 12th, 2019
Read moreNew theory and understanding of how liquid nano-jets breakup into droplets.
Feb 12th, 2019
Read moreThe ability of carbon nanotubes to filter sodium while still allowing water to pass through can depend on many factors, including their diameters and the interactions of electrically charged atoms on their rims.
Feb 12th, 2019
Read morePhysicists have irradiated buckyballs with infrared femtosecond laser pulses. Under the influence of the intense light the form of the macromolecules was changed from round to elongated.
Feb 12th, 2019
Read moreScientists have developed a machine learning approach that can predict changes to the properties of materials from straining the material.
Feb 12th, 2019
Read moreChemical and topographical single-cell imaging at nanoscale resolution by near-field desorption mass spectrometry.
Feb 12th, 2019
Read moreScientists have discovered the mechanism involved when transition metal dichalcogenides on metallic substrates transform from the semiconducting 1H-phase to the quasi-metallic 1T'-phase.
Feb 12th, 2019
Read moreResearchers have demonstrated a new hardware platform based on isolated electron spins in a two-dimensional material. The electrons are trapped by defects in sheets of hexagonal boron nitride, a one-atom-thick semiconductor material, and the researchers were able to optically detect the system's quantum states.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreResearchers have imaged a battery as it was quickly charged and discharged, allowing for the observation of lithium plating behavior that can inhibit the battery's long-term function.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreOne of the key building blocks of flexible photonic circuits and ultra-thin optics are metasurfaces. Engineers have now discovered a simple way of making these surfaces in just a few minutes -- without needing a clean room -- using a method already employed in manufacturing.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreQuantum interference effects can cause substantial variation in the conductance properties of molecule-scale devices. By controlling the quantum interference, researchers showed that electrical conductance of a single molecule can be fine-tuned over two orders of magnitude.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreResearchers built an integrated soliton microcomb operating at a repetition rate of 88 GHz using a chip-scale indium phosphide laser diode and the silicon nitride microresonator. At only 1 cubic cm in size, the device is the smallest of its kind to-date.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read morePhysicists has found a way to stabilize the color of light being emitted from a promising class of next-generation materials that researchers believe could be the basis for efficient and more cost-effective optoelectronic technologies that can turn light into electricity or vice versa.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreThe novel wind and solar energy-harvesting flags have been developed using flexible piezoelectric strips and flexible photovoltaic cells.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreScientists have developed a method to construct highly complex molecular tessellations using a single molecular building block.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreAdding olefin enables efficient solvent-free cross-coupling reactions, leading to environmentally friendly syntheses of a wide range of organic materials.
Feb 11th, 2019
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