New research yields super-strong aluminum alloy
Researchers have demonstrated how to create a super-strong aluminum alloy that rivals the strength of stainless steel, an advance with potential industrial applications.
Jan 26th, 2018
Read moreResearchers have demonstrated how to create a super-strong aluminum alloy that rivals the strength of stainless steel, an advance with potential industrial applications.
Jan 26th, 2018
Read moreResearchers showed that quantum information of an electron spin can be transported to a photon, in a silicon quantum chip. This is important in order to connect quantum bits across the chip and allowing to scale up to large numbers of qubits.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreThe discovery brings the worlds of spintronics and nanophotonics closer together and might lead to the development of an energy-efficient way of processing data, in data centres, for example.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreScientists have proven that a silicon-gold nanoparticle can act as an effective source of white light when agitated by a pulse laser in IR band.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreResearchers have identified a mechanism that triggers shape-memory phenomena in organic crystals used in plastic electronics.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreScientists are optimizing nanostructures for energy devices such as solar cells.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreResearchers have experimented with a combination of laser technology and chemical knowledge, coming up with a sensor consisting of one single molecule that is a few hundred times more accurate than existing devices used to measure nano-forces on the molecular level.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreA new ERC grant allows a chemist to deal with ultrafast time- and space-resolved dynamics in molecular-plasmonic hybrid systems.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreLong sought-after form of cubic, semiconducting titanium nitride synthesized.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreResearchers intelligently design new highly efficient organic solar cells based on amorphous electronic materials with potential for easy printing.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreUsing clues provided by bone healing mechanisms, researchers added a healing activator to crystalline grain boundaries, enabling the ceramic to fully heal cracks in as little as one minute at 1,000 C, the operating temperature of an aircraft engine.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreNanoengineers have developed an energy-efficient recycling process that restores used cathodes from spent lithium ion batteries and makes them work just as good as new.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreScientists have discovered a way of enhancing the capabilities of an emerging nanotechnology that could open the door to a new generation of electronics.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreResearchers demonstrate a silicon metamaterial surface that will allow for color printing with diffraction-limited resolution.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read morePhysicists have developed new self-directed molecular motors for nanoscale applications.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreScientists demonstrate a hybrid material consisting of imitation pearl combined with silver nanowires that works as a heater, with the added benefit of high flexibility, suggesting a potential role in wearable devices.
Jan 24th, 2018
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