Liquid metal synthesis for better piezoelectrics: Atomically-thin tin-monosulfide
Potential materials for future wearable electronics and other motion-powered, energy-harvesting devices.
Jul 10th, 2020
Read morePotential materials for future wearable electronics and other motion-powered, energy-harvesting devices.
Jul 10th, 2020
Read moreNew insight into the spin behavior in an exotic state of matter puts us closer to next-generation spintronic devices.
Jul 10th, 2020
Read moreThe nanoparticle targets only leukemic cells and therefore would reduce the severe adverse effects of current treatments. The receptor for this nanoparticle is expressed in 20 types of cancer and associated with a poor prognosis, so this drug could open a new therapeutic pathway for other tumors.
Jul 9th, 2020
Read moreResearchers report their success of synthesizing urchin-like nickel nanoparticles by magneto-solvothermal method. Rotated by a magnetic field, the nanoparticles' mechanical force can destroy tumor cells and achieve the same effect as a scalpel.
Jul 9th, 2020
Read moreIn an effort to improve large touchscreens, LED light panels and window-mounted infrared solar cells, researchers have made plastic conductive while also making it more transparent.
Jul 9th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have developed a unique photonic device that reduces the need for re-implants, paving the way for a breakthrough in medical implant technology.
Jul 9th, 2020
Read moreScientists explain a new process that maximizes photon conversion in 2D materials, which could innovate photonic-based applications.
Jul 9th, 2020
Read moreNew technique could lead to new microprocessors that defy Moore's Law.
Jul 8th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have designed peptide nanoparticles that can each glow in a variety of colors, opening the door for many new biomedical applications.
Jul 8th, 2020
Read moreScientists have succeeded in producing the first graphene ribbons whose crystal lattice contains both periodic pores and a regular pattern of nitrogen atoms. The structure of this new material resembles a ladder, with each rung containing two atoms of nitrogen.
Jul 8th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have developed a wood-based steam generator that, with the help of bacterial-produced nanomaterials, harnesses solar energy to purify water.
Jul 8th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have found a way to detect nanostructures buried under many layers of opaque material, using very high frequency sound waves induced by light. Their findings are promising in view of applications in the semiconductor manufacturing industry, such as wafer alignment.
Jul 8th, 2020
Read moreFor many applications in electronics and energy technology, graphene must be combined with other materials: Since graphene is so thin, its properties drastically change when other materials are brought into direct contact with it.
Jul 8th, 2020
Read moreResearchers enhance the accuracy of X-ray free-electron laser measurements closer to the diameter of typical atoms than previously possible.
Jul 8th, 2020
Read moreResearchers develop a set of entirely novel knobs to control correlated electrons and demonstrate that superconductivity can exist without insulating phases in Magic Angle Twisted Bi-layer Graphene.
Jul 7th, 2020
Read moreScientists have developed a novel instrument that can make three kinds of atom-scale measurements simultaneously: It images single atoms. It maps atomic-scale hills and valleys on metal and insulating surfaces. And it records the flow of current across atom-thin materials subject to giant magnetic fields.
Jul 7th, 2020
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