Researchers of the Opto-electronic Materials section of the TU Delft and Toyota Europe have demonstrated that several mobile electrons can be produced by the absorption of a single light particle in films of coupled quantum dots. These multiple electrons can be harvested in solar cells with increased efficiency.
Oct 14th, 2011
Read moreForscher vom INM - Leibniz-Institut fuer Neue Materialien haben Gleitlacke aus Nanokompositen entwickelt, die als Trockenschmierstoffe zum Einsatz kommen.
Oct 14th, 2011
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A research group led by ETH Zurich has now, for the first time, visualized the motion of electrons during a chemical reaction. The new findings in the experiment are of fundamental importance for photochemistry and could also assist the design of more efficient solar cells.
Oct 14th, 2011
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Researchers have developed a process that can increase the data recording density of hard disks to 3.3 Terabit/in2, six times the recording density of current models. The key ingredient in the much enhanced patterning method that he pioneered is sodium chloride, the chemical grade of regular table salt.
Oct 14th, 2011
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A bismuth-based semiconducting material could enable control of electron spin, a crucial requirement for advancing novel devices.
Oct 14th, 2011
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Rice University lab discovers tiny gold bars have strong plasmonic properties.
Oct 14th, 2011
Read moreTwist per muscle length is over a thousand times higher than for previous artificial muscles and the muscle diameter is ten times smaller than a human hair.
Oct 13th, 2011
Read moreDesign rules will enable scientists to use DNA to build nanomaterials with desired properties.
Oct 13th, 2011
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New processes that allow nanoparticles to assemble themselves into designer materials could solve some of today's technology challenges.
Oct 13th, 2011
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A new scheme termed "coherent photon conversion", could potentially overcome all of the currently unresolved problems for optical implementations of quantum computing.
Oct 13th, 2011
Read moreDieser Jahresbericht gibt einen Einblick in die konkreten Aktivitaeten und die daraus entstandenen Arbeitsergebnisse, die das Jahr 2010 gepraegt haben.
Oct 13th, 2011
Read moreResearchers from the CNST and Arizona State University have demonstrated that the overall catalytic activity of nickel particles for the formation of carbon nanostructures is improved by the addition of a small amount of gold.
Oct 13th, 2011
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The existence of nanoscale clusters are shown to directly correlate with local recombination activity within the cell, regulating the overall performance of the energy conversion device.
Oct 13th, 2011
Read moreDie Bundesregierung beantwortet eine Anfrage zum Thema Chemikalienpolitik auf nationaler und europaeischer Ebene.
Oct 13th, 2011
Read moreA University of Minnesota team of researchers has overcome a major hurdle in the quest to design a specialized type of molecular sieve that could make the production of gasoline, plastics and various chemicals more cost effective and energy efficient.
Oct 12th, 2011
Read moreResearchers from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., have demonstrated for the first time that it's possible to cloak a singular event in time, creating what has been described as a "history editor".
Oct 12th, 2011
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