An international team of researchers has observed that local thermal perturbations of spins in a solid can convert heat to energy even in a paramagnetic material - where spins weren't thought to correlate long enough to do so.
Sep 16th, 2019
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Researchers report a new method for the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles.
Sep 16th, 2019
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A new study reports on the development of low-power wearable devices enabled by graphene that can monitor multiple vital signs of humans, such as heart rate, respiration rate, blood pulse oxygenation, and exposure to UV radiation.
Sep 13th, 2019
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Inspired by octopuses, researchers have developed a structure that senses, computes and responds without any centralized processing - creating a device that is not quite a robot and not quite a computer, but has characteristics of both.
Sep 13th, 2019
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The material allows for incredibly sensitive detection of the direction molecules twist.
Sep 13th, 2019
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Researchers have modified the photoconductance of nanoparticles of tungsten oxide in a controlled manner.This research has potential applications in photonics and optomechanics,
Sep 13th, 2019
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Dynamic data routing could make for faster photonic chips that use their entire footprint.
Sep 13th, 2019
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The new coating is 10 times darker than other very black materials.
Sep 13th, 2019
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The ancient and delicate art of origami has reached the atomic scale, with researchers now able to precisely fold graphene into custom shapes.
Sep 12th, 2019
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Heated particles shift shape and become highly active catalytically.
Sep 12th, 2019
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Research opens up new possibilities for improving performance of halide perovskite.
Sep 12th, 2019
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Simple copper becomes an effective spintronic component thanks to molecular film.
Sep 12th, 2019
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Scientists present a new intelligent sensor material based on the 'Chiral Conflict', an effect barely described so far in polymer chemistry.
Sep 12th, 2019
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A newly developed type of architected metamaterial has the ability to change shape in a tunable fashion.
Sep 11th, 2019
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Determination of the crystal structure of a DNA-stabilized silver nanocluster.
Sep 11th, 2019
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For nanoribbons of bilayer graphene, whose edge atoms are arranged in zigzag patterns, the bands of electron energies which are allowed and forbidden are significantly different to those found in monolayer graphene. This causes variations in the ways in which bilayers conduct electricity.
Sep 11th, 2019
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