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Novel smart material enables high-performance and reliable light control of droplets
Researchers have developed a new smart material with high-efficiency and durable photo-induced charge regeneration capability, enabling light control of droplets with superior performances and reliability.
August 24, 2022 Read more
Damage-reporting and self-healing skin-like polymeric coatings
Self-reporting and self-healing coatings similar to human skin. High re-usability of coating reduces waste generation by maintaining functionality.
August 24, 2022 Read more
New platform speeds up design of lipid nanoparticles for gene medicine delivery
A new platform shows promise in the sped up design of lipid nanoparticles to deliver treatments that prevent viral infections.
August 24, 2022 Read more
Defect-engineering MOFs for properties and performance
Knowledge of how defects affect the nanoscale mechanical behavior of ZIF-8 is key to targeted applications in catalysis, sensing, and gas capture.
August 23, 2022 Read more
How nanotechnologies are shaping the future of warfare
Throughout human history, technological progress has been inseparably intertwined with advances in military weaponry. Through the ages we can see how new inventions revolutionized both the living standards of society and the advancement of warfare technology. Today, the rapid emergence and confluence of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies and information technologies in the past two decades is having a huge impact on the development of military technologies.
August 23, 2022 Read more
Brushing thin films onto electrodes preserves batteries
Brushing powdered phosphorus and sulfur into lithium anodes helps keep them from forming damaging dendrites in rechargeable batteries.
August 22, 2022 Read more
The electron slow motion: Ion physics on the femtosecond scale
When ions penetrate a material, highly complex processes take place - so fast that they could hardly be analyzed until now. But sophisticated measurements have now made it possible.
August 22, 2022 Read more
Researchers discover a material that can learn like the brain
Researchers have discovered that Vanadium Dioxide, a compound used in electronics, is capable of 'remembering' the entire history of previous external stimuli. This is the first material to be identified as possessing this property, although there could be others.
August 22, 2022 Read more
Microscopic color converters move small laser-based devices closer to reality
Researchers have used an atomically thin material to build a device that can change the color of laser beams. Their microscopic device may yield new kinds of ultra-small optical circuit chips and advance quantum optics.
August 22, 2022 Read more
Scientists identify liquid-like atoms in densely packed solid glasses
Researchers have shown the existence of liquid-like atoms in metallic glasses. These atoms inherit the dynamics of high-temperature liquid atoms, revealing the nature of metallic glasses as part-solid and part-liquid.
August 22, 2022 Read more
Study sheds new light on materials assembly in confinement
Researchers used computer simulations to show how the assembly of vertex-truncated tetrahedra is affected when confined inside a spherical container. The findings offer materials scientists a new method for controlling the assembly structure and characteristics of the resulting material.
August 20, 2022 Read more
New nanosheet photocatalyst boosts water splitting efficiency for clean hydrogen production
The surface-modified, dye-sensitized nanosheet catalyst shows immense potential, as it can suppress undesirable back electron transfer and improve water splitting activity up to a hundred times.
August 20, 2022 Read more
Scientists fine-tune 'tweezers of sound' for contactless manipulation of objects (w/video)
Adaptive control helps realize more stable lifting of particles from surfaces.
August 20, 2022 Read more
How do you take a better image of atom clouds? Mirrors - lots of mirrors
To capture as much information as possible about clouds of atoms at the heart of the MAGIS-100 experiment, SLAC scientists devised a dome of mirrors that gathers more light from more angles.
August 20, 2022 Read more
Compost to computer: Bio-based materials used to salvage rare earth elements
Researchers used micro- and nanoparticles created from the organic materials to capture rare earth elements from aqueous solutions.
August 19, 2022 Read more
Scientists unravel 'Hall effect' mystery in search for next generation memory storage devices
An advance in the use of antiferromagnetic materials in memory storage devices has been made by an international team of physicists.
August 19, 2022 Read more
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