Researchers use microwaves to produce high-quality graphene
Researchers discover easy way to make graphene for flexible and printable electronics, energy storage, and catalysis.
Sep 1st, 2016
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Engineers treat printed graphene with lasers to enable paper electronics
Engineers have developed a laser-treatment process that allows them to use printed graphene for electric circuits and electrodes - even on paper and other fragile surfaces. The technology could lead to many real-world, low-cost applications for printed graphene electronics, including sensors, fuel cells and medical devices.
Sep 1st, 2016
Read moreResearchers develop novel method for room-temperature atomic layer deposition
Successful deposition of silicon and gallium nitride at low temperature could allow three-dimensional control of thin films and integration of previously incompatible microelectronics materials.
Sep 1st, 2016
Read moreA carbon nanotube coating for the next generation of power lines
A novel coating made from carbon nanotubes that, when layered around an aluminum-conductor composite core transmission line, reduces the line's operating temperature and significantly improves its overall transmission efficiency.
Sep 1st, 2016
Read moreResearchers trick solid into acting as liquid
Scientists have discovered how to get a solid material to act like a liquid without actually turning it into liquid, potentially opening a new world of possibilities for the electronic, optics and computing industries.
Sep 1st, 2016
Read moreBlowing bubbles to catch carbon dioxide (w/video)
Researchers develop bio-inspired liquid membrane with nanopores that could make clean coal a reality.
Sep 1st, 2016
Read moreMaking the switch, this time with an insulator
Physicists, joining the fundamental pursuit of using electron spins to store and manipulate information, have demonstrated a new approach to doing so, which could prove useful in the application of low-power computer memory.
Sep 1st, 2016
Read moreMathematical nanotoxicoproteomics: Quantitative characterization of effects of multi-walled carbon nanotubes
Scientists developed mathematical models to characterize proteomics patterns of Caco-2/HT29-MTX cells exposed for three and twenty four hours to two kinds of important nanoparticles: multi-walled carbon nanotubes and TiO2 nanobelts.
Sep 1st, 2016
Read moreNew method helps stabilise materials with elusive magnetism
Stabilising materials with transient magnetic characteristics makes it easier to study them.
Sep 1st, 2016
Read moreIn batteries, a metal reveals its dual personality
Branchlike deposits grow on lithium electrode surfaces in two ways, one much more damaging.
Sep 1st, 2016
Read moreEngineers seek sustainable solutions through nanotechnology
New designs may help purify water, diagnose disease in remote regions of world.
Sep 1st, 2016
Read more'High-speed 'electron camera' films atomic nuclei in vibrating molecules
An ultrafast 'electron camera' has made the first direct snapshots of atomic nuclei in molecules that are vibrating within millionths of a billionth of a second after being hit by a laser pulse.
Aug 31st, 2016
Read moreResearchers find transition point in semiconductor nanomaterials
Researchers have demonstrated that electronic interactions play a significant role in the dimensional crossover of semiconductor nanomaterials. The show that a critical length scale marks the transition between a zero-dimensional, quantum dot and a one-dimensional nanowire.
Aug 31st, 2016
Read moreInvisibility cloak with photonic crystals
Almost as elusive as unicorns, finding practical materials for invisibility cloaking is challenging. Researchers have new ideas how to solve that.
Aug 31st, 2016
Read moreSynthetic chemistry in a very small space
Thanks to a new process, it is now possible to systematically test a large number of chemical reactions in a very small space and within a short time. It enables freely selectable molecules embedded in solid materials to react with each other in a nanometer-sized space.
Aug 31st, 2016
Read moreMagnetism under the magnifying glass
Being able to determine magnetic properties of materials with sub-nanometer precision would greatly simplify development of magnetic nano-structures for future spintronic devices. In a new article, physicists make a big step towards this goal.
Aug 31st, 2016
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