Designing nanocrystals for more efficient optoelectronics
New artificial materials for semiconductors used in solar cells or photoelectrochemical cells that are designed from scratch with totally new and tailored properties.
Aug 15th, 2018
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Water matters to metal nanoparticles
Researchers make breakthrough discovery that gold nanoparticles can dissolve when they interact with freshwater aquatic plants?instead of remaining stable as commonly thought.
Aug 15th, 2018
Read moreTransistor technology may improve speed, battery life for computers, mobile phones and other electronics
Researchers have created a new technology design for field effect transistors.
Aug 14th, 2018
Read moreArtificial placenta created in the laboratory
Researchers have succeeded in creating an artificial placental barrier on a chip, using a high-resolution 3D printing process.
Aug 14th, 2018
Read moreFlexible drug delivery microdevice to advance precision medicine
Researchers have developed a flexible drug delivery device with controlled release for personalized medicine, blazing the path toward theragnosis.
Aug 14th, 2018
Read moreFlipping the switch on supramolecular electronics
Researchers combined light-sensitive molecules with layers graphene and other 2D materials to create new devices that could be used in sensors, optoelectronics and flexible devices.
Aug 14th, 2018
Read more3D inks that can be erased selectively
Scientists develop method for the specific degradation of laser-written microstructures.
Aug 14th, 2018
Read moreNew technology can detect hundreds of proteins in a single sample
Improvement of barcoding technique offers cost-effective alternative to current technology.
Aug 13th, 2018
Read moreLong-sought carbon structure 'schwarzite' joins graphene, fullerene family
Chemists have proved that three carbon structures recently created are in fact the long-sought schwarzites, which researchers predict will have unique electrical and storage properties like those now being discovered in fullerenes, nanotubes and graphene.
Aug 13th, 2018
Read moreFrom office windows to Mars: Scientists debut super-insulating gel
The aerogel, which looks like a flattened plastic contact lens, is so resistant to heat that you could put a strip of it on your hand and light a fire on top without feeling a thing.
Aug 13th, 2018
Read moreThermal switch discovered in engineered squid-based biomaterials
Tuning materials for optimal optical and electrical properties is becoming commonplace. Now, researchers and manufacturers may be able to tune materials for thermal conductivity by using a squid-inspired protein made of multiple DNA repeats.
Aug 13th, 2018
Read moreTerahertz technology provides new insight into how semiconductor lasers work
Pioneering engineers working with terahertz frequency technology have been researching how individual frequencies are selected when a laser is turned on, and how quickly the selection is made.
Aug 13th, 2018
Read morePrinted nanowire electronics breakthrough could lead to flexible electronics revolution
A new form of electronics manufacturing which embeds silicon nanowires into flexible surfaces could lead to radical new forms of bendable electronics, scientists say.
Aug 13th, 2018
Read moreEffects of carbon and silicon nanoparticles on on marine microalgae
For the past four years, a group of toxicologists has been studying the effects of carbon and silicon nanoparticles on marine organisms.
Aug 13th, 2018
Read moreFor physicists, the 2D form of tungsten ditelluride Is full of surprises
For scientists, the 2-D form of one metallic compound - tungsten ditelluride - is a bevy of quantum revelations. The latest discovery about tungsten ditelluride is that its 2-D form can undergo ferroelectric switching.
Aug 10th, 2018
Read moreSelf-assembling single-digit nanometer memory cells
An international collaborative research team has developed sub-10-nanometer-range spin transfer torque magnetic tunneling junctions.
Aug 9th, 2018
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