Molecular interfaces formed between metals and molecular compounds have enormous potential as building blocks for future opto-electronics and spin-electronics devices.
Oct 20th, 2021
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Nanoscale gas-liquid interfaces have been randomly generated in carbon nanotubes and porous membranes, for example, but fabricating controllable, nanoscale versions is still challenging because nanofluidic channels are too small to make use of conventional approaches to surface control.
Oct 19th, 2021
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Researchers describe a promising plasma-based method to provide high hydrogen coverage on graphene.
Oct 19th, 2021
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Researchers have developed a new MXene sensor that detects even the smallest amounts of water molecules that sink to its surface.
Oct 19th, 2021
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Although perovskites offer great potential for greatly expanding solar power, they have yet to be commercialized because their reliable synthesis and long-term stability has long challenged scientists.
Oct 19th, 2021
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Physicists examined a special system of colloidal particles that they activated using laser light. The researchers discovered that self-propelling droplets, which they have named 'droploids', formed which contain the particles as an internal motor.
Oct 19th, 2021
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Researchers create gold nanoparticles studded with a radioactive isotope that remain localized inside cancer cells, which can enable targeted radiotherapy for tumors with reduced damage to healthy organs.
Oct 19th, 2021
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Research into stacked sheets of graphene is like the Wild West, complete with the lure of striking gold and the uncertainty of uncharted territory.
Oct 19th, 2021
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A team of materials scientists and chemists has determined the proper stack pressure that lithium metal batteries need to be subjected to during battery operation in order to produce optimal performance.
Oct 19th, 2021
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Researchers are developing new kinds of transistors based on nanowires for use in next-generation quantum computers.
Oct 19th, 2021
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New research could revise a 70-year-old model of how the fundamental building blocks of substances are assembled.
Oct 18th, 2021
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A newly developed catalyst with unique, atomic-sized 'rafts' does a better job than current technology for cleaning up emissions from natural gas engines.
Oct 18th, 2021
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Scientists have used lasers to investigate how water surfaces can be used as a template for the regular arrangement of molecules in production of high-quality monolayers and what physicochemical mechanisms underlie this.
Oct 15th, 2021
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Injectable nanocarriers have the potential improve antiretroviral drug efficacy in the fight against infectious diseases.
Oct 15th, 2021
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Making a dark human hair transparent, or even an opaque bar of silicon: this optical 'sorcery' is possible by manipulating the incident light. This new phenomenon is called 'mutual extinction and transparency'. Until now only existing in theory, photonics researchers demonstrated the effect with experiments.
Oct 15th, 2021
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Engineers are creating nanostructures of silica with a sophisticated 3D printer, demonstrating a method to make micro-scale electronic, mechanical and photonic devices from the bottom up.
Oct 15th, 2021
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