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Researchers find way to stabilize color of light in halide perovskites

Physicists 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

Researchers develop flags that generate energy from wind and sun

The novel wind and solar energy-harvesting flags have been developed using flexible piezoelectric strips and flexible photovoltaic cells.

Feb 11th, 2019

Highly complex two-dimensional tessellation in the molecular world

Scientists have developed a method to construct highly complex molecular tessellations using a single molecular building block.

Feb 11th, 2019

Boosting solid state chemical reactions

Adding olefin enables efficient solvent-free cross-coupling reactions, leading to environmentally friendly syntheses of a wide range of organic materials.

Feb 11th, 2019

Scientists marry gas-trapping framework to light-powered nanocatalysts

Researchers describe how pseudomorphic replacement, the same chemical process that turns a tree to stone, aided their synthesis of the first metal-organic framework (MOF) around light-powered aluminum nanocatalysts.

Feb 8th, 2019

Nanopore research hits a nerve

New research shows that synthetic solid-state nanopores can have finely tuned transport behaviors much like the biological channels that allow a neuron to fire.

Feb 8th, 2019

Researchers discover new method to quantify graphene at the cellular level

A recent study presents a new, combination-based way to quantify and analyze the effect of graphene at the single cell level.

Feb 8th, 2019

Scientists image conducting edges in a promising 2-D material

Experimental study on monolayer tungsten ditelluride could lead to more energy-efficient electronic devices.

Feb 8th, 2019

Turning a porous material's color on and off with acid

Stable, color-changing compound shows potential for electronics, sensors and gas storage.

Feb 8th, 2019

Cryo-force spectroscopy reveals the mechanical properties of DNA components

Physicists have developed a new method to examine the elasticity and binding properties of DNA molecules on a surface at extremely low temperatures. With a combination of cryo-force spectroscopy and computer simulations, they were able to show that DNA molecules behave like a chain of small coil springs.

Feb 8th, 2019

Sound and light trapped by disorder

Scientists have proposed a new and counterintuitive approach using disordered structures to trap light (photons) and sound (phonons) at the same place.

Feb 8th, 2019

Gummy-like micro robots that could help prevent disease

Researchers have developed micromachines able to mechanically stimulate cells and microtissue. These tools, which are powered by cell-sized artificial muscles, can carry out complicated manipulation tasks under physiological conditions on a microscopic scale.