Using sand to improve battery performance
Researchers develop low cost, environmentally friendly way to produce sand-based lithium ion batteries that outperform standard by three times.
Jul 8th, 2014
Read moreResearchers develop low cost, environmentally friendly way to produce sand-based lithium ion batteries that outperform standard by three times.
Jul 8th, 2014
Read moreWith a chemical 'trick', scientists have succeeded in isolating a stable gold carbene complex. They are the first to have created the basis for directly examining the otherwise unstable gold-carbon double bond.
Jul 8th, 2014
Read moreNano for Security and Defense International Conference (NanoSD2014) will be held in Avila, Spain (September 23-26, 2014). The conference will provide an opportunity to discuss general issues and important impacts of nanotechnology in the development of security and defense.
Jul 8th, 2014
Read moreThe lithium-ion batteries that power our laptops and electric vehicles could store more energy and run longer on a single charge with the help of a sponge-like silicon material. Researchers developed the porous material to replace the graphite traditionally used in one of the battery's electrodes, as silicon has more than 10 times the energy storage capacity of graphite.
Jul 8th, 2014
Read moreFlatlands Beyond Graphene (FBG) 2014 will bring together world-leading experts in the area of 2D nanomaterials. It will focus on recent advances in controlling and characterising the properties of these materials, with a particular emphasis on electronic, photonic and spintronic applications.
Jul 8th, 2014
Read moreResearchers have designed a miniscule cooling element that uses spin waves to transport heat in electrical insulators. The cooling element could be used to dissipate heat in the increasingly smaller electrical components of computer chips.
Jul 8th, 2014
Read moreNanoelectronics research center imec, reported today an n-type PERT crystalline silicon solar cell fabricated on a large area wafer reaching a top conversion efficiency of 21.5 percent. This is the highest efficiency achieved for this type of solar cell on an industrial large area wafer size.
Jul 8th, 2014
Read moreSeveral key commercial announcements were made at this year's conference, highlighting the tangible growth in this emerging market area of renewable biopolymers.
Jul 8th, 2014
Read moreUnder extremely high pressure conditions oxygen molecules group into quartets and give rise to a 'dance of their magnetic moments'. This results in magnetic properties never previously observed in these conditions and in theory points to the existence of a new phase of the element, called epsilon 1.
Jul 7th, 2014
Read moreA thirteen-year-long mystery about a diode in printed electronics that works in the GHz band, has finally been solved.
Jul 7th, 2014
Read moreNew technology yields potential for faster-charging, longer-lasting batteries to power future electronic devices.
Jul 7th, 2014
Read moreResearchers have developed a new formulation of cisplatin, a common chemotherapy drug, that significantly increases the drug's ability to target and destroy cancerous cells.
Jul 7th, 2014
Read moreResearchers are working to engineer atomically precise technologies that have practical, real-world applications.
Jul 7th, 2014
Read moreFor the last century, the concept of crystals has been a mainstay of solid-state physics. Crystals are paragons of order; crystalline materials are defined by the repeating patterns their constituent atoms and molecules make. Now physicists have evidence that a new concept should undergird our understanding of most materials: the anticrystal, a theoretical solid that is completely disordered.
Jul 7th, 2014
Read moreNew study provides proof of the validity of a filtering device for ultra-cold neutral atoms based on tunnelling.
Jul 7th, 2014
Read moreScientists used DNA origami, in which a DNA molecule is shaped into a nanostructure, and used these structures to test theories about cell signalling.
Jul 7th, 2014
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