Researchers have developed a new material that replicates the structure responsible for the blue feathers of the North American song bird, among many other birds. It also has other striking advantages.
Dec 5th, 2023
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Researchers fired short terahertz pulses at micrometer-sized discs of graphene, which briefly turned them into surprisingly strong magnets. This discovery may prove useful for developing future magnetic switches and storage devices.
Dec 5th, 2023
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Scientists have taken snapshots of the crystal structure of perovskite nanocrystals as it was deformed by excited electrons. To their surprise, the deformation straightened out the skewed crystal structure rather than making it more disordered.
Dec 5th, 2023
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Researchers have created a new kind of triboelectric nanogenerator that produces electricity through the use of limestone putty, promising a considerable cost savings over conventional manufacturing methods.
Dec 5th, 2023
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Physicists store many different images at the same place in a diamond by using a laser of a slightly different color to store different information into different atoms in the same microscopic spots.
Dec 5th, 2023
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Researchers developed graphene discs that generate magnetic fields 10,000x Earth's - switchable in picoseconds. By stirring electrons with light, discs produce swirling plasmons acting as nanomagnets toggled in trillionths of a second, enabling dynamic control from quantum dots to magnetocaloric materials.
Dec 4th, 2023
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Researchers have developed a low-cost and user-friendly fabrication technique, called UV-LED-based microscope projection photolithography, for rapid high-resolution manufacturing of optical elements within seconds. This approach transfers structure patterns on a photomask to a photoresist-coated substrate under UV illumination.
Dec 4th, 2023
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Scientists mapped out the structural features of a 2D ferroelectric material made of tin and selenium atoms, showing how domains - areas of the material in which molecules are identically oriented - impact the behavior of the material.
Dec 4th, 2023
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An innovative way to teach nanoscience, using 3D-printed models that make the unseen visible.
Dec 4th, 2023
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Self-folding polymers containing gadolinium forming nanosized complexes could be the key to enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and next-generation drug delivery.
Dec 4th, 2023
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Due to their high energy sensitivity, superconducting nanowire detectors achieve almost 100% quantum efficiency and exceed the detection efficiency of conventional ion detectors at low energies by a factor of up to a 1,000. In contrast to conventional detectors, they can also distinguish macromolecules by their impact energy.
Dec 4th, 2023
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By leveraging a document-retrieval method, this chatbot is knowledgeable in areas of nanomaterial science that other bots are not.
Dec 2nd, 2023
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By 'stretching' thin films of diamond, researchers created quantum bits that can operate with significantly reduced equipment and expense. The change also makes the bits easier to control.
Dec 1st, 2023
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To obtain hydrogen with the help of solar energy, researchers have developed new high-performance nanostructures. The material holds a world record for green hydrogen production with sunlight.
Dec 1st, 2023
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Scientists present a groundbreaking advance for the world of high-resolution fluorescence microscopy.The innovative method enables researchers for the first time to use biomolecules as molecular rulers to calibrate the latest super-resolution microscopy methods, which have a resolution of just a few nanometres.
Dec 1st, 2023
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A new semiconductor architecture that integrates traditional electronics with photonic, or light, components could have application in advanced radar, satellites, wireless networks and 6G telecommunications - and provide a pathway for a local semiconductor industry.
Dec 1st, 2023
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