A layer of silicon nanocrystals and erbium ions may help solar cells to extract more energy from the ultraviolet (UV, high-energy) part of the solar spectrum.
Aug 13th, 2014
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Gene-based personalized medicine has many possibilities for diagnosis and targeted therapy, but one big bottleneck: the expensive and time-consuming DNA-sequencing process. Now, researchers have found that nanopores in the material molybdenum disulfide could sequence DNA more accurately, quickly and inexpensively than anything yet available.
Aug 13th, 2014
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Graphene may be tough, but those who handle it had better be tender. The environment surrounding the atom-thick carbon material can influence its electronic performance, according to researchers who have come up with a simple way to spot contaminants.
Aug 13th, 2014
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Materials scientists have long sought to form glass from pure, monoatomic metals. Scott X. Mao and colleagues did it.
Aug 13th, 2014
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Carbon nanotubes can be specifically produced with a desired structure from suitable precursor molecules.
Aug 13th, 2014
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In the future, working up a sweat by exercising may not only be good for your health, but it could also power your small electronic devices. Researchers have designed a sensor in the form of a temporary tattoo that can both monitor a person's progress during exercise and produce power from their perspiration.
Aug 13th, 2014
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Via direct coupling on a silver surface, scientists successfully formed dimers and short chains of porphine molecules without contaminating by-products.
Aug 13th, 2014
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Researchers have used nanoimprinting methods to make patterned polymeric films with surface topography inspired by that of a rose petal, producing a range of transparent films with high water pinning forces.
Aug 13th, 2014
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Researchers have developed a high-capacity method to purify monoclonal antibodies that uses magnetic nanoparticles and also introduces new operating conditions.
Aug 13th, 2014
Read moreTheoretical simulations reveal how nanoscale lubricating systems can ease friction between surfaces coated with diamond-like carbon.
Aug 13th, 2014
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A novel route to pentagon-shaped gold-copper nanorods could advance the field of heterogeneous catalysis.
Aug 13th, 2014
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A smart technology which involves smuggling gold nanoparticles into brain cancer cells has proven highly effective in lab-based tests.
Aug 13th, 2014
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A team of materials chemists, polymer scientists, device physicists and others today report a breakthrough technique for controlling molecular assembly of nanoparticles over multiple length scales that should allow faster, cheaper, more ecologically friendly manufacture of organic photovoltaics and other electronic devices.
Aug 12th, 2014
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Researchers demonstrate that foam may be a superior fluid to displace and extract tough-to-reach oil.
Aug 12th, 2014
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Scientists have discovered that copper foam could provide a new way of converting excess CO2 into useful industrial chemicals, including formic acid.
Aug 12th, 2014
Read moreA new paper describes the investigations of the fundamental optical properties of a new class of semiconducting materials known as organic-inorganic 'hybrid' perovskites.
Aug 12th, 2014
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