A team of engineering experts have pioneered a new way to ease production of van der Waals heterostructures with high-K dielectrics - assemblies of atomically thin two-dimensional crystalline materials.
Jan 24th, 2019
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In the quest for smaller, faster 2D processors, researchers invent thermal lithography process for higher quality, lower cost, and mass production potential.
Jan 24th, 2019
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A newly developed graphene-based implant can record electrical activity in the brain at extremely low frequencies and over large areas, unlocking the wealth of information found below 0.1 Hz.
Jan 24th, 2019
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Tech wizards to tech novices may benefit from the ability to 'grow' solar cells and advance electronics, computers and energy conversion devices.
Jan 24th, 2019
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Scientists have discovered the relaxation dynamics of a zero-field state in skyrmions, a spinning magnetic phenomenon that has potential applications in data storage and spintronic devices.
Jan 23rd, 2019
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Water splitting, the process of harvesting solar energy to generate energy-dense fuels, could be simplified thanks to new research.
Jan 23rd, 2019
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Engineers demonstrate their approach by printing the smallest-known 3D microfluidic circuit element.
Jan 23rd, 2019
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Researchers have developed a process that allows manufacturers to essentially shape any metal and alloy and replicate even the smallest details.
Jan 23rd, 2019
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Researchers have developed an easy way to make complicated arrays of microsupercapacitors that involves screen-printing them out of graphene ink. The simplicity and freedom offered by the approach will aid the development of new approaches to electronics and flexible devices.
Jan 23rd, 2019
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Researchers have discovered that proton transfer in electrochemical reactions is governed by the quantum tunneling effect under the specific conditions. In addition, they made a first ever observation of the transition between the quantum and classical regimes in electrochemical proton transfer by controlling potential.
Jan 23rd, 2019
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Scientists have investigated the consequences of the collision of two atoms in a weak magnetic field at low temperature. For the first time they have discovered that atoms, carrying their angular momentum in individual packets (quanta), thereby exchange two packets.
Jan 23rd, 2019
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Researchers are working to develop a predictive understanding of how interparticle forces drive the assembly of nanosized building blocks into tailored superlattice structures.
Jan 23rd, 2019
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Findings address challenges in developing synthesis strategies for nanostructured materials.
Jan 23rd, 2019
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A new, simple and inexpensive method that uses ultraviolet light to control particle motion and assembly within liquids could improve drug delivery, chemical sensors and fluid pumps.
Jan 22nd, 2019
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The first experimental proof of the unusual XY-type magnetic- behavior transition when passing from 3D to 2D is finally observed, fifty years after its theoretical description.
Jan 22nd, 2019
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Semiconductor nanocrystals have been efficiently encapsulated into polymers and offer great stability in terms of their optical properties and fluorescence control.
Jan 22nd, 2019
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