Researchers have developed a new coating material for semiconductors that may create new opportunities to produce fuels in processes that combine direct sunlight with electricity.
Nov 18th, 2020
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Scientists have created the largest defect-free membranes reported to date that fully exploit the unique mass transport properties of carbon nanotubes as flow channels.
Nov 18th, 2020
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The quantum dynamics of hydrogen is central to many problems in nature, being strongly influenced by the environment in which it takes place. Scientists address hydrogen transfer within a supported molecular switch, showing that the surface support can play a decisive role in the tunneling reaction.
Nov 18th, 2020
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Scientists develop an energy-efficient strategy to reversibly change spin orientation or magnetization direction in magnetite at room temperature.
Nov 18th, 2020
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Prototype tech shrinks AI to deliver brain-like functionality in one powerful device.
Nov 18th, 2020
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Researchers report a combination of alkyne tags and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) microscopy for following the dynamics of small-molecule drugs in cells.
Nov 18th, 2020
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The optoelectronic properties of various carbon allotropes and nanomaterials have been well established, while the purely sp-hybridized carbyne remains synthetically inaccessible. Its properties have therefore frequently been extrapolated from those of defined oligomers.
Nov 17th, 2020
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In this study, by using operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy imaging, the researchers revealed a full landscape of the biphasic structural transformation occurring at the nodes inside Ni and Co bimetallic MOF during OER.
Nov 17th, 2020
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Researchers have found that removing random doping in quantum electronic devices dramatically improves their reproducibility - a key requirement for future applications such as quantum-information processing and spintronics.
Nov 17th, 2020
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The proposed device, with a theoretical operating energy budget less than 10 attojoules, uses a differential architecture to compensate for environmental variations and the device can retain sensed information for durations ranging from hours to days.
Nov 17th, 2020
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A new way to arrange very small materials with perfect control could lead to more secure banknotes and passports, and quicker detection of harmful gas through a clever use of light.
Nov 17th, 2020
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Researchers have used experiments and simulations to find out by what means MOFs can be rendered flexible and why: they tricked the system by using clever chemical manipulations to enable a variety of energetically similar arrangements in the crystalline order.
Nov 17th, 2020
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Theoretical researchers have found a way to make quantum sensors exponentially more sensitive by harnessing a unique physics phenomenon.
Nov 16th, 2020
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Scientists have reported a new optical imaging technology, using a glass side covered with gold nanodiscs that allows them to monitor changes in the transmission of light and determine the characteristics of nanoparticles as small as 25 nanometers in diameter.
Nov 16th, 2020
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Researchers have developed a groundbreaking method to detect the dynamics of light on such a small scale with high temporal resolution.
Nov 16th, 2020
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Scientists have developed a photodiode using a crystalline film composed of lead perovskite compounds with organic chiral molecules to detect circularly polarized light without a filter. It is expected as a technology for visualization of the invisible change of object surfaces such as stress intensity and distribution.
Nov 16th, 2020
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