Physicists gain insights into why materials break
New research suggests scientists could eventually help create materials that resist breaking or crack in a predictable fashion.
Nov 7th, 2016
Read moreNew research suggests scientists could eventually help create materials that resist breaking or crack in a predictable fashion.
Nov 7th, 2016
Read moreWhat if you could take one of the most abundant natural materials on earth and harness its strength to lighten the heaviest of objects, to replace synthetic materials, or use it in scaffolding to grow bone, in a fast-growing area of science in oral health care?
Nov 7th, 2016
Read moreClose to absolute zero, the particles exhibit their quantum nature.
Nov 7th, 2016
Read moreA way to coax simple, inorganic nanoparticles to spontaneously assemble into shells has been discovered, potentially paving the way for more efficient industrial chemical processing, gene delivery and clean-up of chemical contaminants in the environment, researchers say. And it explores how life may have started.
Nov 7th, 2016
Read moreScientists determined directly the relation between the bandgap energy of single cesium lead bromide nanocrystals and their size and shape.
Nov 7th, 2016
Read moreSodium-oxygen batteries have improved cycle life due to highly concentrated electrolytes.
Nov 7th, 2016
Read moreResearchers have modelled a particular spin liquid, showing that disorder can co-exist with order.
Nov 7th, 2016
Read moreScientists are driving three-wheeled, single-molecule 'nanoroadsters' with light and, for the first time, seeing how they move.
Nov 4th, 2016
Read moreA new study demonstrates the possibility of covalent intertube bonding giving rise to interconnected (polymerized) multiwall nanotubes; these nanotubes being cheaper to produce than their single-wall counterparts.
Nov 4th, 2016
Read moreResearchers developed a technique for imaging THz photocurrents with nanoscale resolution, and applied it to visualize strongly compressed THz waves (plasmons) in a graphene photodetector. The extremely short wavelengths and highly concentrated fields of these plasmons open new venues for the development of miniaturized optoelectronic THz devices.
Nov 4th, 2016
Read moreResearch on photosynthetic antenna complexes illuminates how they harvest light in plants, algae and bacteria.
Nov 4th, 2016
Read moreNew imaging technique stimulates particles to emit laser light, could create higher-resolution images.
Nov 4th, 2016
Read moreThe idea is reminiscent of the ancient alchemists' attempts to create gold from worthless substances: Researchers have discovered a novel way to fabricate pure gold nanostructures using an additive direct-write lithography technique.
Nov 4th, 2016
Read moreResearchers warn that trace amounts of transition metal impurities act as recombination centers in gallium nitride semiconductors.
Nov 3rd, 2016
Read moreTechnique may enable large-scale atom arrays for quantum computing.
Nov 3rd, 2016
Read moreThe European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)'s Biocidal Products Committee backed three approvals, and one non-approval, of active substance/product-type combinations, at its October meeting.
Nov 3rd, 2016
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