Researchers have developed a novel, promising variant of a light source for the smallest possible energy packages - a so-called single-photon source.
Oct 29th, 2018
Read more
A cutting-edge material, inspired by nature, can regulate its own temperature and could equally be used to treat burns and help space capsules withstand atmospheric forces.
Oct 29th, 2018
Read more
Defect engineering and heterogenous interface used to produce strains in emerging semiconductors.
Oct 26th, 2018
Read more
This is the first study that effectively demonstrates a method of producing efficient organic solar cells using the wet processing method.
Oct 26th, 2018
Read more
Two-dimensional element shows promise for solar cells and other optoelectronics.
Oct 26th, 2018
Read more
Switches like this one, discovered with an ultrafast 'electron camera', could offer a new, simple path to storing data in next-generation devices.
Oct 26th, 2018
Read more
Nanocrystals are promising building blocks for new and improved electronic devices, due to their size-tunable properties and ability to integrate into devices at low-cost.
Oct 26th, 2018
Read more
A new class of curved plasmon beams named as a photonic hook plasmon can be used as a nanoparticle manipulator, as well as in biosensors to study substances in small volumes and plasmon microscopes for benefiting superresolution.
Oct 26th, 2018
Read more
Scientists have developed a human-friendly, ultra-flexible organic sensor powered by sunlight, which acts as a self-powered heart monitor.
Oct 26th, 2018
Read more
The new invention consists of a type of coating that produces thin films of water-loving, oil-repelling molecules on the surface of filter membranes. These metal oxide molecules grab onto any loose water atoms while resisting oil.
Oct 26th, 2018
Read more
Engineers create an optical gyroscope smaller than a grain of rice.
Oct 25th, 2018
Read more
Using engineered nanocomposite structures called metamaterials, a research team reports the ability to measure a significant increase in the energy transfer between molecules.
Oct 25th, 2018
Read more
Scientists' method quenches lithium metal dendrites in batteries that charge faster, last longer.
Oct 25th, 2018
Read more
The DESY accelerator facility in Hamburg, Germany, goes on for miles to host a particle making kilometer-long laps at almost the speed of light. Now researchers have shrunk such a facility to the size of a computer chip.
Oct 25th, 2018
Read more
Researchers have discover squeezed light at the nanoscale that propagates only in specific directions along thin slabs of molybdenum trioxide. Besides its unique directional character, this nanolight lives for an exceptionally long time, and thus could find applications in signal processing, sensing or heat management at the nanoscale.
Oct 24th, 2018
Read more
While stem cells have the most therapeutic potential, the benefits of regenerative medicine may best be mobilised using extracellular vesicles, also known in the past as 'cellular dust'. A team of researchers has tested these vesicles for the first time in a porcine model for the treatment of post-operative digestive fistulas.
Oct 24th, 2018
Read more