Researchers have developed a set of four different, micrometer-sized building blocks, which can self-sort and co-assemble into defined compositions and disassemble at the push of a button.
Mar 10th, 2017
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Materials researchers have created a nanofiber that could help enable the next generation of rechargeable batteries and increase the efficiency of hydrogen production from water electrolysis.
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Exploring ways to mimic photosynthesis could lead to sustainable fuels for the future.
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A team of researchers has demonstrated a molecular switch so far unmatched in its reproducibility.
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Layered 2D material improves efficiency for solar cells and LEDs.
Mar 9th, 2017
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Electrical and computer engineering researchers have created a magnetic tunnel junction that can be switched by a pulse of light lasting one trillionth of a second - a new record.
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Scientists have used electron cryomicroscopy to show that a small difference of only several amino acids can have a large impact on flagella function. The study gives new insight on the construction of synthetic nanomachines.
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Novel laminated nanostructure gives steel bone-like resistance to fracturing under repeated stress.
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Toward valleytronic devices for data storage or computer logic systems.
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By carefully combining multiple structures, metamaterials can exhibit properties that don't naturally exist. Engineers now have a new, simpler way of making them, using a concept dubbed 'photonic doping'.
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It turns out that after an appropriate teaching procedure even a relatively simple chemical system can perform non-trivial operations. In their most recent computer simulations researchers have shown that correctly programmed chemical matrices of oscillating droplets can recognize the shape of a sphere with great accuracy.
Mar 9th, 2017
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Researchers used metal-organic frameworks to generate quasiparticles - excitons, which were fully controllable and also helped to record information at room temperature.
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The new metamaterials can be fabricated in multiple layers to form complex, three-dimensional meta-atoms that reflect more light than shiny gold surfaces, usually considered the ultimate in infrared reflectivity.
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Physicists have predicted the existence of transparent composite media with unusual optical properties.
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Two articles present new structures to be used as molecular components of these nanometric promising tools.
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Storing one bit in one atom is possible: The extraordinary end of Moore's law.
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