Researchers improved quantum dot photovoltaic cell efficiency by introducing MXene with organic solvent dispersible polycatechol, enhancing charge rearrangement and thermal stability, and increasing power conversion efficiency from 12.8% to 13.6%.
Dec 22nd, 2023
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Scientists leverage organic purpurin dye in sustainable aqueous processing method to effectively exfoliate SWCNT bundles, creating long-sought superior CNT materials with concurrently enhanced electrical conductivity, mechanical durability, and optical transparency.
Dec 22nd, 2023
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Researchers have used artificial intelligence to discover a new method for understanding small defects called dislocations in polycrystalline materials, materials widely used in information equipment, solar cells, and electronic devices, that can reduce the efficiency of such devices.
Dec 22nd, 2023
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Researchers have created a bimetallic optical switch that can both transmit data and store it efficiently.
Dec 22nd, 2023
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Scientiosts have developed a new computational tool to describe how the atoms within quantum materials behave when they absorb and emit light.
Dec 22nd, 2023
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Advanced instrument provides new 3D views of worm's exoskeleton and clues about how skin layers are bound together.
Dec 22nd, 2023
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Defects, which inevitably arise when manufacturing so-called CIGS cells, can reduce their power output, but the effect is much less common and much more localised than expected.
Dec 21st, 2023
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Improved nanosecond imaging technology could help us see ultrasmall and ultrafast processes like never before.
Dec 21st, 2023
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Researchers developed a new 'one-pot' method to make nanosheets using less rare metals. Their discovery should allow for the energy-making process to be more eco-friendly.
Dec 21st, 2023
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Researchers have fabricated a gallium nitride (GaN) transistor using diamond, which of all natural materials has the highest thermal conductivity on earth, as a substrate, and they succeeded in increasing heat dissipation by more than two times compared with conventional transistors.
Dec 21st, 2023
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Lights could soon use the full color suite of perfectly efficient organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, that last tens of thousands of hours.
Dec 21st, 2023
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Findings could play role in shaping sustainable habitation on the red planet - and clean energy production back home.
Dec 21st, 2023
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Researchers have reported the observation of coherent charge oscillations in bilayer graphene quantum dots. This marks a significant milestone on the way to spin and valley qubits in a two-dimensional material system.
Dec 20th, 2023
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Researchers discover quasiparticles in WSe2 crystals, hinting at room-temperature superconductivity and potential quantum technology breakthroughs.
Dec 20th, 2023
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Separating carbon dioxide molecules from gas mixtures requires materials with extremely fine pores. Researchers have now found a novel way to do this by transforming crystalline metal-organic framework compounds into glass.
Dec 20th, 2023
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Material could find uses in superconducting circuits for next-generation industrial electronics.
Dec 20th, 2023
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