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A focus on chemistry, not electronics, could see future solar panels reach their potential
A material that has been heralded as the key to producing more efficient next-generation solar panels could soon be ready for mass production.
June 20, 2022 Read more
New model offers potential solutions for next-generation battery challenges
A new mathematical model has brought together the physics and chemistry of highly promising lithium-metal batteries, providing researchers with plausible, fresh solutions to a problem known to cause degradation and failure.
June 20, 2022 Read more
Learning to understand how nanomaterials enter cells and how cells react
Every cell relies on the uptake (endocytosis) of materials like proteins, cytokines and even synthetic carbon nanomaterials, to perform its required cellular fate functions. Studying this process in detail is an extremely challenging and thus extremely interesting goal in biophysics. Therefore, endocytosis is of interest for bringing therapeutic targets into cells. Studying the pathways of how materials get into the cell can aid in untangling trafficking to design higher efficiency targeted drug and gene delivery therapies.
June 20, 2022 Read more
Boosting light power revolutionizes communications and autopilot
Scientists have built a compact waveguide amplifier by successfully incorporating rare-earth ions into integrated photonic circuits. The device produces record output power compared to commercial fiber amplifiers, a first in the development of integrated photonics over the last decades.
June 18, 2022 Read more
Rubbery camouflage skin exhibits smart and stretchy behaviors
Researchers develop first artificial skin to maintain cognitive characteristics when deformed.
June 18, 2022 Read more
New approach topples major barrier to commercialisation of organic flow batteries
Researchers have developed a method to dramatically extend the lifetime of organic aqueous flow batteries, improving the commercial viability of a technology that has the potential to safely and cheaply store energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar.
June 18, 2022 Read more
Electrons take the fast and slow lanes - at the same time
Imagine a road with two lanes in each direction. One lane is for slow cars, and the other is for fast ones. For electrons moving along a quantum wire, researchers have discovered that there are also two 'lanes', but electrons can take both at the same time!
June 17, 2022 Read more
New spectroscopic insights into hydrogen bonds
Scientists have achieved surprising insights into the formation of hydrogen bonds using a novel method that enables the application of NMR spectroscopy in high-pressure research.
June 17, 2022 Read more
Disinfectant mechanism of nano-sized electrostatic atomized water particles on SARS-CoV-2
The nano-sized electrostatic atomized water particles have an electron rich nano-sized water shell that contains reactive oxygen species. The researchers showed that the water particles damage the viral envelope, protein, and RNA. They also revealed that the damaged virus did not bind to host cells.
June 17, 2022 Read more
Achieving sub-MHz optical features resonator-free in solid-state
Ultra-narrow optical features with a spectral bandwidth below 1 megahertz are highly sought-after for applications in ultrahigh-precision sensing, narrow-band filtering, and information storage for optical computing - but unfortunately they are extremely challenging to generate. But now there is a novel way to achieve ultra-narrow optical features. And unlike conventional approaches, it is cost-effective, has a simple arrangement, and is loss-free, while offering on-demand tunability and ultrahigh sensitivity.
June 17, 2022 Read more
New pentacene derivative has 100 times more light durability
Scientists have developed a new pentacene derivative that is more than 100 times more photostable than TIPS-pentacene, a photostable pentacene derivative.
June 17, 2022 Read more
Microrobot device removes brain hemorrhages due to strokes or aneurysms
A new treatment for strokes caused by bleeding in the brain that uses a magnetically controlled microrobot-enabled self-clearing catheter has been shown to be 86% effective in animal models.
June 17, 2022 Read more
Dying stars could seed interstellar medium with carbon nanotubes
Evidence suggests that carbon nanotubes, tiny tubes consisting of pure carbon, could be forged in the envelopes of dust and gas surrounding dying stars.
June 17, 2022 Read more
Creating optically active polymers using a helical liquid crystal template
By using a liquid crystal as a template, researchers were able to produce optically active polymers that can convert light into a circular polarization. This approach may help lower the cost of smart displays.
June 17, 2022 Read more
Diamonds are for quantum sensing
Researchers use ultrafast spectroscopy to measure tiny changes in magnetic fields using nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamonds, paving the way for more accurate quantum sensors for spintronic computers.
June 17, 2022 Read more
Solving the puzzle of 2D disorder
An interdisciplinary team developed a new method to characterize disorder in 2D materials.
June 16, 2022 Read more
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