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Electrode design for lithium-ion battery that improves smartphone, laptop battery performance

Researchers have developed the design and process technology for the world's first battery electrode that significantly improves the performance and stability of batteries used in electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops, and electric vehicles.

January 30, 2023 Read more

Topological acoustic waveguide to help reduce unwanted energy consumption in electronics

A team of researchers has developed a new acoustic waveguide based on the mathematical concept of topology, which will lead to reduced energy consumption in many everyday electronic devices.

January 30, 2023 Read more

Researchers find ways to improve the storage time of quantum information in a spin rich material

An international team of scientists have demonstrated a leap in preserving the quantum coherence of quantum dot spin qubits as part of the global push for practical quantum networks and quantum computers.

January 29, 2023 Read more

Stability of perovskite solar cells reaches next milestone

Researchers investigated a chemical variation that significantly improves the stability of the perovskite thin film in different solar cell architectures.

January 28, 2023 Read more

In-place manufacturing method improves graphene foam gas sensor capabilities, production time

In this new process, a laser inscribes nanomaterials directly on top of a porous graphene foam substrate. The base material allows for the sensor to be stretchy and flexible when applied on the skin or an object.

January 28, 2023 Read more

Ultrafast control of spins in a microscope

In a breakthrough that can advance spintronics, researchers have developed a new technique that can visualize and control the rotation of a handful of spins arranged in a vortex-like texture at the fastest speed ever achieved.

January 28, 2023 Read more

Charge density wave found in magnetic kagome crystal

Researchers discovered a wave-like charge order in a magnetic material with a kagome geometric structure and obtained clues to the order's origins in the material's electronic structure.

January 28, 2023 Read more

Inspiration for artificial anti-icing surfaces

A special microscope shows different anti-icing strategies of plant leaves.

January 26, 2023 Read more

Quantum physicists make nanoscopic advance of colossal significance

Researchers can now control two quantum light sources rather than one. Trivial as it may seem to those uninitiated in quantum, this colossal breakthrough allows researchers to create a phenomenon known as quantum mechanical entanglement.

January 26, 2023 Read more

Researchers decipher atomic-scale imperfections in lithium-ion batteries

Team used super high-resolution microscopy enhanced by deep machine learning.

January 26, 2023 Read more

An open-source stopwatch to time activities between molecules inside living cells

A stopwatch to investigate what happens inside living cells at a thousandth of a millisecond scale: this is the open-source platform BrightEyes-TTM.

January 26, 2023 Read more

Targeting cancer with a multidrug nanoparticle

Using bottlebrush-shaped particles, researchers can identify and deliver synergistic combinations of cancer drugs.

January 26, 2023 Read more

Physicists solve mystery of two-dimensional quasicrystal formation from metal oxides

The structure of two-dimensional titanium oxide brakes-up at high temperatures by adding barium; instead of regular hexagons, rings of four, seven and ten atoms are created that order aperiodically.

January 26, 2023 Read more

Nanotechnology researchers discover long-term memory in 2D nanofluidic channels

Researchers demonstrated the Hebbian learning in artificial nanochannels, where the channels showed short and long term memory.

January 26, 2023 Read more

Scientists generate and measure the shortest electron pulse to date

The electron pulse was created by using lasers to remove electrons from a metal nanotip and lasted only 53 attoseconds, that is, 53 billionths of a billionth of a second.

January 25, 2023 Read more

Nanofiber-hydrogel loaded with stem cells shows success treating severe complication of Crohn's disease

Researchers develop injectable biomimetic hydrogel composite that promotes regenerative healing in an animal model of Crohn's perianal fistulas.

January 25, 2023 Read more