Researchers develop highly efficient thermochromic windows
Demonstration device dynamically responds to sunlight by transforming from transparent to tinted while converting sunlight into electricity.
Nov 28th, 2017
Read moreDemonstration device dynamically responds to sunlight by transforming from transparent to tinted while converting sunlight into electricity.
Nov 28th, 2017
Read moreBy growing nanocrystals in solution, researchers have demonstrated a new colloidal technique for making optoelectronic emitters.
Nov 28th, 2017
Read moreUsing predictive atomistic calculations and high-performance supercomputers, researchers found that incorporating the element boron into the widely used InGaN (indium-gallium nitride) material can keep electrons from becoming too crowded in LEDs, making the material more efficient at producing light.
Nov 28th, 2017
Read moreScientists have discovered that a technique designed to coat nickel nanoparticles with silica shells actually fragments the material - creating a small core of oxidized nickel surrounded by smaller satellites embedded in a silica shell. The surprising result may prove useful by increasing the surface area of nickel available for catalyzing chemical reactions.
Nov 28th, 2017
Read moreComputer simulations have helped a team of researchers to develop a peptide that is able to detect the tensional state of tissue fibers. This paves the way for completely novel research approaches in medicine and pharmacology.
Nov 28th, 2017
Read moreResearchers have, for the first time, successfully demonstrated room temperature magnetisation switching driven by giant spin-orbit torques in topological insulator/conventional ferromagnet heterostructures with an extremely low current density, that can address the issue of scalability and high power consumption needed in modern spintronic devices.
Nov 28th, 2017
Read moreNew research suggests that electrons in a two-dimensional gas can undergo a semi-ordered (nematic) to mostly-ordered (smectic) phase transition, which has been discussed in physics theory but never seen in practice before.
Nov 28th, 2017
Read moreIn experiments with an ultrafast ?electron camera,? laser light hitting a material is almost completely converted into nuclear vibrations, which are key to switching a material?s properties on and off for future electronics and other applications.
Nov 27th, 2017
Read moreNew framework compares the performances of organic materials for bioelectronics and energy storage.
Nov 27th, 2017
Read moreSuccessfully combined with magnetic garnet to yield ten times enhanced performance.
Nov 27th, 2017
Read moreResearchers are sending tiny drug-laden nanoparticles on a mission to seek and destroy cancer stem cells, the elusive and rare cells that can cause cancer to come back even when years have passed since the initial tumor was treated.
Nov 27th, 2017
Read moreScientists have developed a new tool for biomedical research focused on single-cell investigation.
Nov 27th, 2017
Read moreResearchers have made a discovery that could improve the conductivity of a type of glass coating which is used on items such as touch screens, solar cells and energy efficient windows.
Nov 27th, 2017
Read moreScientists control the fluorescence of carbon nanotubes with potential applications in bio-imaging.
Nov 27th, 2017
Read moreResearchers use electrical techniques to understand the infrared fluorescence of modified carbon nanotubes.
Nov 27th, 2017
Read moreElementary quantum-computing device used to observe quanta in propagating microwaves.
Nov 27th, 2017
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