Chameleon-inspired nanolaser changes colors
Novel device opens door for advances in flexible displays in smartphones and televisions.
Jun 20th, 2018
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The deformation and mechanics of one-atom thin layer materials
Scientists present the latest theoretical advances in nanomechanics of graphene.
Jun 20th, 2018
Read moreA lightweight carbon nanofiber-based collector for lithium anodes
Researchers report a lightweight, high nitrogen-doping level carbon nanofiber framework as the current collector for lithium metal anodes, which could restrain the dendrite growth and achieve the uniform lithium deposition.
Jun 20th, 2018
Read moreInteraction of paired and lined-up electrons can be manipulated in semiconductors
The way that electrons paired as composite particles or arranged in lines interact with each other within a semiconductor provides new design opportunities for electronics.
Jun 20th, 2018
Read moreChemical 'caryatids' improve the stability of metal-organic frameworks
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous materials that can change the way we capture carbon, filter water, and an array of other applications. Chemists have now found the link between mechanical stability and structure, thus overcoming a significant obstacle in optimizing MOFs.
Jun 20th, 2018
Read moreThe synthetic techniques and applications of quantum dot - graphene composites
Recent research investigates the recent research progress on quantum dot - graphene composites with focus on their industrial preparation and commercial applications.
Jun 20th, 2018
Read morePhotocatalysis: Importance of the aqueous interface
A multi-institutional team of experimentalists and theoreticians present a quantitative structural analysis of the interface between natural (reduced) anatase TiO2 and water.
Jun 20th, 2018
Read moreElectron sandwich doubles thermoelectric performance
Researchers more than doubled the ability of a material to convert heat into electricity, which could help reduce the amount of wasted heat, and thus wasted fossil fuel, in daily activities and industries.
Jun 20th, 2018
Read moreThe world's first-ever graphene sports shoes
The shoe contains graphene-enhanced rubber outsoles for running and fitness shoes that in testing have outlasted 1,000 miles and are scientifically proven to be 50% harder wearing.
Jun 20th, 2018
Read moreNot always bad - MXenes' spontaneous oxidation harnessed to create 2-D nanocomposites
Researchers have discovered a new way to harness the potential of a type of spontaneously oxidized MXene thin films, to create nanocomposites that could sense both light and the environment.
Jun 19th, 2018
Read moreFuturistic data storage
The development of high-density data storage devices requires the highest possible density of elements in an array made up of individual nanomagnets. The closer they are together, the greater the magnetic interactions between them. Researchers now have devised a new model to study the variation of the magnetic interaction between such nanomagnets.
Jun 19th, 2018
Read moreThe fingerprints of harmful molecules could be detected noninvasively via black silicon
A group of physicists experimentally confirmed that molecular fingerprints of toxic, explosive, polluting and other dangerous substances could be reliably detected and identified by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) using black silicon (b-Si) substrate.
Jun 19th, 2018
Read moreAn unlikely marriage among oxides
Researchers are looking for new materials with unusual properties that were so far not accessible in experiments. To do this, they connect partners who don't really fit together: One partner forces the other into a state that would not be possible without the unlikely pairing.
Jun 19th, 2018
Read moreScientists make the first molecular movie of one of nature's most widely used light sensors
The X-ray laser movie shows what happens when light hits retinal, a key part of vision in animals and photosynthesis in microbes. The action takes place in a trillionth of an eye blink.
Jun 19th, 2018
Read moreThese nanoscale 'crack-junctions' can speed up DNA sequencing
The time-consuming, expensive process of sequencing DNA molecules could become a whole lot faster and cheaper as a result of a new nanofabrication method that takes advantage of nano-sized air-gaps, or nanocracks, in electrically conductive materials.
Jun 19th, 2018
Read moreGame-changing finding pushes 3D-printing to the molecular limit
New research proves that advanced materials containing molecules that switch states in response to environmental stimuli such as light can be fabricated using 3D printing.
Jun 19th, 2018
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