Researchers created an electronic device so accurate that it can detect the charge of a single electron in less than one microsecond. It has been dubbed the 'gate sensor' and could be applied in quantum computers of the future to read information stored in the charge or spin of a single electron.
Apr 23rd, 2015
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New approach to designing ordered composite materials for possible energy applications.
Apr 23rd, 2015
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Scientists develop new approach to providing materials with recesses without weakening the construction.
Apr 23rd, 2015
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Discovery demonstrates how metamaterials may be used in non-invasive material imaging and sensing, and terahertz information technologies.
Apr 22nd, 2015
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Researchers report the first known full 3-D scan of a single biological cell via picosecond ultrasound, an acoustic imaging technique.
Apr 22nd, 2015
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A new type of graphene aerogel will make for better energy storage, sensors, nanoelectronics, catalysis and separations.
Apr 22nd, 2015
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Metals are compounds that are capable of conducting the flow of electrons that make up an electric current. Other materials, called insulators, are not capable of conducting an electric current. At low temperatures, all materials can be classified as either insulators or metals. New work hones in on the physics underlying the recently discovered fact that some metals stop being metallic under pressure.
Apr 22nd, 2015
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In the quantum world of light, being distinguishable means staying lonely. Only those photons that are indistinguishable can wind up in a pair, through what is called Hong-Ou-Mandel interference. This subtle quantum effect has been successfully imaged for the first time.
Apr 22nd, 2015
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As computers continue to shrink, memory has to become smaller, stable and more energy conscious. A group of researchers is trying to do just that with help from a new class of materials, whose magnetism can essentially be controlled by the flick of a switch.
Apr 22nd, 2015
Read moreThe researchers packaged dopamine in biodegradable nanoparticles that have been used to deliver other therapeutic drugs to the brain. The resulting nanoparticles successfully crossed the blood-brain barrier in rats, released its dopamine payload over several days and reversed the rodents' movement problems without causing side effects.
Apr 22nd, 2015
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Scientists have discovered that electron spin brings a previously unknown degree of order to the high entropy alloy nickel iron chromium cobalt (NiFeCrCo) - and may play a role in giving the alloy its desirable properties.
Apr 22nd, 2015
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Researchers have unveiled an important step in the conversion of light into storable energy: They studied the formation of so-called polarons in zinc oxide. The pseudoparticles travel through the photoactive material until they are converted into electrical or chemical energy at an interface.
Apr 22nd, 2015
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Using only a 9-volt battery at room temperature, researchers have altered the thermal conductivity of the widely used material PZT (lead zirconate titanate) by as much as 11 percent at subsecond time scales.
Apr 22nd, 2015
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Charged holes in graphene increase energy storage capacity.
Apr 22nd, 2015
Read moreConsumers one day may snap photos with smartphones to see if an item is real.
Apr 22nd, 2015
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The effect is known from the smart phone: Sun is reflected by the display and hardly anything can be seen. In contrast to this, the glasswing butterfly hardly reflects any light in spite of its transparent wings. As a result, it is difficult for predatory birds to track the butterfly during the flight.
Apr 22nd, 2015
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