Material engineers found that the performance of ion-conducting ceramic membranes that are so important in industry depends largely on their strain and buckling profiles. For the first time, scientists can now selectively manipulate the buckling profile, and thus the physical properties, allowing new technical applications of these membranes.
Jun 15th, 2015
Read moreEngineers create bright, visible light emission from one-atom thick carbon.
Jun 15th, 2015
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Byproduct of research may lead to new way to irradiate cancer with gold-bonded isotopes.
Jun 15th, 2015
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Researchers have developed the first flexible PRAM enabled by self-assembled block copolymer (BCP) silica nanostructures with an ultralow current operation (below one quarter of conventional PRAM without BCP) on plastic substrates.
Jun 15th, 2015
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Researchers develop a bright, high-repetition-rate laser source in the extreme UV for studies of ultrafast materials dynamics.
Jun 15th, 2015
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A newly develped method only requires a single electrode to be in direct contact with a nanoparticle or molecule, thus significantly simplifying fabrication. Researchers achieved this by embedding nanoparticles on a substrate in an electric resonant circuit and sending a radio-frequency signal to the device.
Jun 15th, 2015
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An international research team has found a way of protecting sensitive catalysts from oxygen-caused damage. In the future, this could facilitate the creation of hydrogen fuel cells with molecular catalysts or with biomolecules such as the hydrogenase enzyme.
Jun 15th, 2015
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A simple way to turn carbon nanotubes into valuable graphene nanoribbons may be to grind them. The trick is to mix two types of chemically modified nanotubes. When they come into contact during grinding, they react and unzip, a process that until now has depended largely on reactions in harsh chemical solutions.
Jun 15th, 2015
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It isn't cars and vehicle traffic that produce the greatest volumes of climate gas emissions - it's our own homes. But new research will soon be putting an end to all that.
Jun 15th, 2015
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Firing pulses of a trillion x-ray photons at molecular-sized samples in time scales on the order of million-billionths of a second (femtoseconds), researchers are aiming for the Holy Grail of ultra-fast X-ray Science - single-particle 3D imaging with atomic resolution.
Jun 15th, 2015
Read moreResearchers announced a new method for creating magnetic skyrmion bubbles at room temperature. The bubbles, a physics phenomenon thought to be an option for more energy-efficient and compact electronics, can be created with simple equipment and common materials.
Jun 13th, 2015
Read moreScientists have created a new way of manipulating high-intensity X-rays, which will allow researchers to select extremely brief but precise X-ray bursts for their experiments.
Jun 12th, 2015
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The efficiency of polymer solar cells could be improved by precisely controlling the interface between organic layers.
Jun 12th, 2015
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Proteins that glow yellow, orange or cyan can be used to illuminate a range of biochemical processes without light excitation.
Jun 12th, 2015
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Scientists have successfully synthesized iron-nickel oxide nanoparticles that allows for the hydrogen production process to be ten times more efficient than existing solutions.
Jun 11th, 2015
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The nanoscale device community has shown great interest in exploiting the unique properties of ferroelectric materials for encoding information. But the circuitry for reading information stored in the polarization of these materials has prohibited its adaptation to extremely small scales. Now, researchers have developed a new technique that provides key information for an alternative decoding method, where better understanding will help to fully harness the properties of these devices.
Jun 11th, 2015
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