'Blinking' nanocrystals may convert CO2 into fuels
Unusual nanoparticles could also benefit the quest to build a quantum computer.
Jul 16th, 2020
Read moreUnusual nanoparticles could also benefit the quest to build a quantum computer.
Jul 16th, 2020
Read moreTo clarify the bonding retention of adsorbed gas molecules on graphene with and without electric field tuning, scientists monitored the time-dependent vdW interaction decay of adsorbed CO2 molecules on graphene at different electric fields.
Jul 16th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have made a material with interlocked mineral layers that resembles nacre and is stronger and tougher than previous mimics.
Jul 16th, 2020
Read morePhysicists succeed at engineering an optical mirror made of only a few hundred atoms. It is the lightest one in the world and even imaginable.
Jul 16th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell.
Jul 15th, 2020
Read moreScientists have developed a breakthrough technology to resolve a key problem that has prevented the introduction of novel drugs into clinical practice for decades.
Jul 15th, 2020
Read moreThe research team took a new approach by using the Josephson junctions to spatially resolve the supercurrent flow and to show that WTe2 does indeed appear to have hinge states and be a higher-order topological insulator.
Jul 15th, 2020
Read moreThe 200-micrometer gripers are controlled remotely, without electric wiring or pneumatic tubing, with green light delivered through the fibers - absorbed light energy is directly converted into the gripper jaws' action.
Jul 15th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have shown that electromagnetic waves coupled to precisely engineered structures known as artificial ferromagnetic quasicrystals allow for more efficient information transmission and processing at the nanoscale. Their research also represents the first practical demonstration of Conway worms, a theoretical concept for the description of quasicrystals.
Jul 15th, 2020
Read moreThe work demonstrates the effectiveness of a design strategy that functionalizes a 2D material with an organic molecule.
Jul 15th, 2020
Read moreScientists quantify the forces that cause critical damage on a single bacterium E.coli under physiological conditions using two combined techniques: AFM nanoindentation and fluorescence imaging.
Jul 15th, 2020
Read moreNanoengineers detail the current approaches to COVID-19 vaccine development, and highlight how nanotechnology has enabled these advances.
Jul 15th, 2020
Read moreResearchers developed ruthenium-loaded cerium dioxide nanocubes with rich oxygen vacancies to construct electrochemical sensing interface, which was used to detect Hg(II).
Jul 15th, 2020
Read moreNew research provides evidence of a highly unusual quantum state, a quantum spin liquid for potential use in the development of spintronic devices, quantum computers and other transformative quantum technologies.
Jul 15th, 2020
Read moreResearchers synthesised carbon dots from human hair waste which can detect trace amounts of chloroform in water, a major by-product of water disinfection.
Jul 15th, 2020
Read moreResearchers designed and fabricated a heterostructure comprising two layered transition metal dichalcogenides. Such a heterojunction enables multifunctional operation - as a highly-responsive, high-speed photodetector as well as a photovoltaic device with large open-circuit voltage.
Jul 15th, 2020
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