Researchers have designed a device that uses light to manipulate its mechanical properties. The device, which was fabricated using a plasmomechanical metamaterial, operates through a unique mechanism that couples its optical and mechanical resonances, enabling it to oscillate indefinitely using energy absorbed from light.
Oct 10th, 2016
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Scientists have succeeded for the first time in enabling two non-neighbouring quantum bits in the form of electron spins in semiconductors to communicate with each other.
Oct 10th, 2016
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One day, your latest gadget won't be in your pocket like a phone or even wrapped around your wrist like a smartwatch, but stuck to your skin like a transparent plaster.
Oct 10th, 2016
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Researchers have discovered how to subtly change the interior structure of semi-hollow nanorods in a way that alters how they interact with light, and because the changes are reversible, the method could form the basis of a nanoscale switch with enormous potential.
Oct 10th, 2016
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Scientists have developed a multi-layered 'sensing skin' to detect corrosive or otherwise harmful substances in structures. The skin can also detect cracks and other structural flaws that are invisible to the naked eye.
Oct 10th, 2016
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Researchers have developed methods to control defects in two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, that may lead to improved membranes for water desalination, energy storage, sensing or advanced protective coatings.
Oct 10th, 2016
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An international collaboration has discovered a new method to inscribe exotic magnetic patterns such as magnetic monopoles into thin ferromagnetic films. Such unconventional orientation of magnetic domains might open a new path for the design of energy efficient data storage.
Oct 10th, 2016
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A new tool that uses a forest-like array of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes that can be finely tuned to selectively trap viruses by their size can increase the detection threshold for viruses and speed the process of identifying newly-emerging viruses.
Oct 7th, 2016
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Scientists have created a material that could make reading biological signals, from heartbeats to brainwaves, much more sensitive.
Oct 7th, 2016
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Engineers have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater to create the nanostructured carbon-based materials needed to make energy storage cells.
Oct 7th, 2016
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Researchers have developed all-electrical ultra-thin quantum LEDs, which have potential as on-chip photon sources in quantum information applications, including quantum networks for quantum computers.
Oct 7th, 2016
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A short and simple synthetic route for thiophene-fused aromatic compounds.
Oct 7th, 2016
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New research has demonstrated that a nanoscale device, called a memristor, could be used to power artificial systems that can mimic the human brain.
Oct 7th, 2016
Read moreThe process of photosynthesis, through which plants convert sunlight into chemical energy, involves a carefully choreographed transfer of energy from molecule to molecule. Exactly how the energy is moved is not fully understood, as it is extremely difficult to observe these transfers, which take place extremely rapidly and on a very small scale.
Oct 7th, 2016
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A study offers evidence that small morphological changes can lead to large changes in function. The gecko adhesive apparatus, one of the most spectacular innovations displayed by vertebrates, has been intensively studied for the last 16 years and is of considerable interest to nanotechnologists and biomimeticists.
Oct 7th, 2016
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A technique that uses fluorescent dyes to measure the temperature inside living cells is helping to reveal the mechanism by which living organisms generate heat.
Oct 7th, 2016
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