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The shape of nanoparticles influences the magnetic response of ferro-colloids

Researchers explored the question: What effect does particle shape, cubic geometry in particular, have on the corresponding magnetic response of a stable magnetic fluid of colloidal superballs?

Aug 10th, 2017

Textured LED gives green light to Li-Fi

Using a green LED as a detector can help to boost data transmission rates.

Aug 10th, 2017

Harnessing the properties of a remarkable 2D material

Determining the thermal properties of a versatile material could lead to new applications in energy storage, optoelectronic and flexible electronic devices.

Aug 10th, 2017

Engineers find better way to detect nanoparticles

Scientists have shown that the addition of a third nanoscatterer, complementing two 'tuning' nanoscatterers, to a photonics resonator makes for a fascinating physics party.

Aug 10th, 2017

Landscapes give latitude to 2-D material designers

Scientists show growing atom-thin sheets on cones allows control of defects.

Aug 9th, 2017

Engineers pioneer platinum shell formation process - and achieve first-ever observation

Researchers have devised a new method of dynamically forming a platinum shell on a metallic alloy nanoparticle core, a development that may lead to better materials for oxygen reduction reactions in fuel cells that power some cars and electronic devices.

Aug 9th, 2017

A featherweight, flame-resistant and super-elastic metamaterial

A new featherweight, flame-resistant and super-elastic metamaterial has been shown to combine high strength with electrical conductivity and thermal insulation, suggesting potential applications from buildings to aerospace.

Aug 9th, 2017

Smart windows that go from clear to dark in under a minute

Engineers have developed dynamic windows that can switch from transparent to opaque or back again in under a minute and do not degrade over time.

Aug 9th, 2017

Sensing technology takes a quantum leap with photonics research

Funding approved for levitated optomechanics project.

Aug 9th, 2017

Precisely cutting carbon nanotubes

Scientists demonstrate how multiwalled carbon nanotubes with controllable sizes are cut precisely along the radial direction, and the structural evolution is efficiently investigated through a combination of geometry phase analysis and first-principle calculation.

Aug 9th, 2017

Assembling nanomachines in bacteria

A new study reveals how a specific structure in flagellum and injectisome, the export gate complex, dynamically assembles and how preventing this assembly could make bacteria innocuous.

Aug 9th, 2017

Scalable nanowire photonic crystals

Researchers demonstrate the bottom-up synthesis of InGaN nanowire photonic crystals with precisely controlled size, spacing, and morphology, which can serve as the fundamental building blocks of a new generation of photonic crystal devices and systems.