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Filtering deuterium with MOFs

The extraction of deuterium from its natural isotope mixture has so far been complex and expensive. With a porous MOF material, this could soon be done more efficiently and cost-effectively.

April 14, 2022 Read more

Golden wedding for molecules

Chemical syntheses in liquids and gases take place in three-dimensional space. Random collisions between molecules have to result in something new in an extremely short time. But there is another way: on a gold surface under ultrahigh vacuum conditions, molecules lying still next to each other can be made to combine - even those that would never want to react with each other in a liquid.

April 14, 2022 Read more

New polymer materials make fabricating optical interconnects easier

New technology poised to make silicon photonics more practical, which could boost efficiency of Internet data centers.

April 13, 2022 Read more

Engineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing

Perovskite materials would be superior to silicon in PV cells, but manufacturing such cells at scale is a huge hurdle. Machine learning can help.

April 13, 2022 Read more

Seeing more deeply into nanomaterials (w/video)

New 3D imaging tool reveals engineered and self-assembled nanoparticle lattices with highest resolution yet - 7nm.

April 13, 2022 Read more

Rotating blue laser light reveals unimagined dynamics in living cells

Using new laser-scanning microscope, scientists observe processes changing in cells within milliseconds. The new technology is known as 'Rotating Coherent Scattering' and uses a rapidly-rotating blue laser beam.

April 13, 2022 Read more

Real-time ultrafast humidity sensing optical sensor

Researchers develop a real-time humidity sensing optical sensor. The response time of the new sensor is 10,000 times faster than the conventional sensors and can be mass-produced at low cost.

April 13, 2022 Read more

Nanoparticles could enable a more sensitive and durable rapid COVID-19 test

Scientists have developed a rapid test that uses molecularly imprinted polymer nanoparticles, rather than antibodies, to detect SARS-CoV-2. The new test is more sensitive and works under more extreme conditions than antibody-based tests.

April 13, 2022 Read more

Feel the attraction of zwitterionic Janus particles

Researchers used a hybrid of Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations to predict the self-assembly of charged Janus particles, which may lead to biomimetic nanostructures that can assemble like proteins.

April 13, 2022 Read more

A 4 V-class metal-free organic lithium-ion battery gets closer to reality

Researchers have made a significant advancement towards high-voltage metal-free lithium-ion batteries that use a small organic molecule, croconic acid. The breakthrough moves us closer to realizing metal-free, high-energy, and inexpensive lithium-ion batteries.

April 13, 2022 Read more

Quantum light with modular waveguide device

For the first time, researchers have successfully generated strongly nonclassical light using a modular waveguide-based light source. The achievement represents a crucial step toward creating faster and more practical optical quantum computers.

April 13, 2022 Read more

Scientists find 'knob' to control magnetic behavior in quantum material

Magnetism, one of the oldest technologies known to humans, is at the forefront of new-age materials that could enable next-generation lossless electronics and quantum computers.

April 12, 2022 Read more

Using MOFs to efficiently break down plastic bottles into component parts

Researchers first to demonstrate use of metal-organic frameworks to degrade plastics.

April 12, 2022 Read more

Newly discovered edge magnetism in nanomagnets could have wide applications

Some magnetic nanomaterials retain magnetism only on their edge - in fact only within 10 nanometers of the edge.

April 12, 2022 Read more

Intense laser light modifies the pairing of electrons

The quantum-mechanical exchange interaction between electrons can be specifically modified with intense infrared light fields on time scales of a few femtoseconds, as time-resolved experiments on sulfur hexafluoride molecules show. This finding lights a way for bottom-up controlling chemical reactions with lasers in the future - based purely on electrons, the 'glue' of chemistry.

April 12, 2022 Read more

World's first LED lights developed from rice husks

Scientists searching for a scalable method to fabricate quantum dots have developed a way to recycle rice husks to create the first silicon quantum dot LED light. Their new method transforms agricultural waste into state-of-the-art light-emitting diodes in a low-cost, environmentally friendly way.

April 12, 2022 Read more