Scientists have employed a spectroscopic nanoimaging technique to study how infrared nanolight and molecular vibrations interact with each other. The images reveal that vibrational strong coupling can be achieved, which is a phenomenon that recently attracts wide attention for its potential use to control fundamental physical and chemical material properties.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Strain engineering can significantly manipulate the two-dimensional (2D) materials' electronic and optical properties, which endow it the potential applications in optoelectronics and nanophotonics.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Researchers have synthesized a series of 2D organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites films with large organic spacer cations, and found that mobility and broadband emission showed strong dependence on the molecular conformational order of organic cations.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Specially engineered contact lenses use tears to monitor patient health.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Researchers have studied the impact of electrode surface morphology on the properties of a resistive switching memory cell. It turned out that thicker electrodes have greater surface roughness and are associated with markedly better memory cell characteristics.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Physicists have succeeded in fully integrating nanodiamonds into nanophotonic circuits and at the same time addressing several of these nanodiamonds optically. The study creates the basis for future applications in the field of quantum sensing schemes or quantum information processors.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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A new technique to make cheaper more efficient biological enzyme hybrids could have valuable applications in future water recycling, targeted drug manufacturing and other industries.
Nov 23rd, 2020
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Researchers have realized high-throughput production of thin, ordered through-hole membranes of titanium dioxide.
Nov 21st, 2020
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Materials scientists analyzed the behaviour of strontium titanium oxide, a platform material for memristor research and used the 2D material graphene to probe it.
Nov 20th, 2020
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Scientists observe directed energy transport between neighbouring molecules in a nanomaterial.
Nov 20th, 2020
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Researchers have now managed to control a catalysis reaction using a light-controlled motor. This takes us one step closer to realising the vision of a nano factory in which combinations of various machines work together, as is the case in biological cells.
Nov 20th, 2020
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Researchers have introduced a novel responsive system, capable of molecular recognition of physicochemically similar mixtures, such as isotopes.
Nov 20th, 2020
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Scientists have designed and synthesized a vertical two-dimensional (2D) layered structure to develop materials that exhibit excellent performance in terms of gas storage and for the removal of toxic substances.
Nov 20th, 2020
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Researchers have succeeded in patterning a two-dimensional (2D) metal electrode into desired shapes on the 4-inch diameter silicon substrate.
Nov 20th, 2020
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By controlling the curvature, researchers have successfully retained the electrical properties of 2D graphene in a 3D structure.
Nov 20th, 2020
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Simplified model of van der Waals forces will allow previously impossible simulations of how faceted nanoparticles self-assemble into larger structures.
Nov 19th, 2020
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