The new techniques, which investigated a common type of solar cell made of the semiconductor material cadmium telluride, promise to aid scientists in better understanding the microscopic structure of solar cells and may ultimately suggest ways to boost the efficiency at which they convert sunlight to electricity.
Jun 9th, 2017
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Direct conversion of rusty stainless steel mesh into stable, low-cost electrodes for potassium-ion batteries.
Jun 9th, 2017
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A team of scientists has developed a form of ultrastrong, lightweight carbon that is also elastic and electrically conductive. A material with such a unique combination of properties could serve a wide variety of applications from aerospace engineering to military armor.
Jun 9th, 2017
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The results could be exploited to develop smaller, higher-performance devices for use in a range of applications including molecular sensing, flexible electronics, and energy conversion and storage, as well as robust measurement setups for resistance standards.
Jun 9th, 2017
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Clinical data suggests that up to 40 percent of men could avoid painful biopsies and overtreatment.
Jun 9th, 2017
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Scientists have found a way to recover a protein structure after its chemical denaturation. The method is based on electrostatic interaction between folded, or denatured, proteins and alumina nanoparticles, which unwrap them.
Jun 9th, 2017
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Chemists develop hydrogel strings using compound found in sea creatures.
Jun 9th, 2017
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Researchers have explored superelasticity properties on a nanometric scale based on shearing an alloy's pillars down to nanometric size.
Jun 9th, 2017
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A new study demonstrates that molecular motors with disulfide bonds can be assembled on solid surfaces modified by disulfide bonds, regardless of their chemical composition and microstructure.
Jun 9th, 2017
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Researchers report a van der Waals heterostructure photodetector consisting of graphene and its fluorine-functionalized derivative that enhances the photoresponse of graphene with broadband sensitivity. The proposed scheme in this work paves the way toward implemention of high-performance broadband graphene-based photodetectors.
Jun 9th, 2017
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The develop next generation computers for aerospace applications will aid the development of nanotechnologies that could have wide uses in sensing, health and communications.
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Scientists ran a series of atomistic calculations a to find the root cause of defects in two commonly used semiconductor materials - lead selenide (PbSe) and cadmium selenide (CdSe) - and provide design rules to avoid them.
Jun 9th, 2017
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Through the development of a one-of-a-kind microscope, researchers reported using atom-thin layers of graphene to enhance microscopic images of minuscule viruses.
Jun 9th, 2017
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Microrods made of lanthanoid organic frameworks act as microscale optical waveguides.
Jun 8th, 2017
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A new study heightens concerns over the detrimental short- and long-term impact of airborne iron-rich strongly magnetic combustion-derived nanoparticles present in young urbanites' brains.
Jun 8th, 2017
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Seeing electrons surfing the waves of light on graphene.
Jun 8th, 2017
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