Faster, greener way of producing carbon spheres
A fast, green and one-step method for producing porous carbon spheres, which are a vital component for carbon capture technology and for new ways of storing renewable energy.
Dec 28th, 2020
Read moreA fast, green and one-step method for producing porous carbon spheres, which are a vital component for carbon capture technology and for new ways of storing renewable energy.
Dec 28th, 2020
Read moreThe gallium selenide monolayer has been recently discovered to have an alternative crystal structure and has diverse potential applications in electronics. Understanding its properties is crucial to understand its functions.
Dec 28th, 2020
Read moreScientists propose a method to create a metal-organic framework sorbent for imidacloprid insecticide removal from water.
Dec 28th, 2020
Read morePioneering high-speed atomic force microscope technology has now shed light on the structure and dynamics of some of life's most ubiquitous and inscrutable molecules - intrinsically disordered proteins.
Dec 28th, 2020
Read moreResearchers performed an ultrafast microscopy experiment, where they trapped green light pulses of 20 fs duration as composite light-electron density fluctuation waves and imaged their propagation on a silver surface at the speed of light.
Dec 25th, 2020
Read moreThe device is one of the first to test how quantum effects, which govern the behavior of particles on the smallest scale, might one day be exploited to enhance the performance of nanotechnologies.
Dec 25th, 2020
Read moreThe structure and all details are made of polymer hardened by the scanning of a focused laser beam.
Dec 24th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have discovered a way to make self-assembled nanowires of transition metal chalcogenides at scale using chemical vapor deposition. By changing the substrate where the wires form, they can tune how these wires are arranged, from aligned configurations of atomically thin sheets to random networks of bundles.
Dec 24th, 2020
Read moreTheoretical physicists have developed mathematical formulas that describe a physical phenomenon happening within quantum dots and other nanosized materials. The formulas could be applied to further theoretical research about the physics of quantum dots, ultra-cold atomic gasses, and quarks.
Dec 23rd, 2020
Read moreScientists have developed a layered cobalt oxide with a record-setting thermoelectric figure of merit, which can be used to enhance thermoelectric power generation.
Dec 23rd, 2020
Read moreEngineers are using ideas taken from paper-folding practices to create a sophisticated alternative to 3D printing.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read moreResearchers can now fill in missing information about nanoscale polymerization and 'smart' materials for medicine and the environment.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read moreChemists have synthesized extremely unusual compounds. Their central building block is a silicon atom. Different from usual, however, is the arrangement of the four bonding partners of the atom, which are not in the form of a tetrahedron around it, but flat like a trapezoid.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read moreA new study describes a breakthrough method for imaging the physical and chemical interactions that sequester carbon in soil at near atomic scales, with some surprising results.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read moreScientists show how coated nanoantennas retain energy to potentially catalyze chemical reactions.
Dec 22nd, 2020
Read moreResearchers have developed one of the fastest known COVID-19 antibody tests. The test results are available in 10 to 15 seconds and detect the presence of two of the antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.
Dec 22nd, 2020
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