Researchers recently studied a class of Li-ion battery electrodes that have capacities much greater than those of the materials used in today's batteries. The researchers wanted to determine why these materials can often store more charge than theory predicts.
Jul 28th, 2014
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Researchers achieved a twentyfold amplification of single-photon signals with the help of an ultracold quantum gas.
Jul 28th, 2014
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Graphene could enable new kind of photonics-based chemical sensors and photo-detectors, University of Manchester researchers have shown.
Jul 28th, 2014
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A new method of building materials using light could one day enable technologies that are often considered the realm of science fiction, such as invisibility cloaks and cloaking devices.
Jul 28th, 2014
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These animations, resulting from molecular dynamics simulations, illuminate what happens, atom-by-atom, when two nanoparticles collide.
Jul 28th, 2014
Read moreEngineers use carbon nanospheres to protect lithium from the reactive and expansive problems that have restricted its use as an anode.
Jul 27th, 2014
Read moreMagnetic nanoparticles were synthesized and modified by a molecularly imprinted polymer for easy and selective extraction and determination of sulfonamides in chicken meat samples.
Jul 27th, 2014
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A new ultra-sensitive, low-cost and portable system for detecting mercury in environmental water has been developed by University of Adelaide researchers.
Jul 26th, 2014
Read moreResearchers are exploring ways to wake up the immune system so it recognizes and attacks invading cancer cells. Tumors protect themselves by tricking the immune system into accepting everything as normal, even while cancer cells are dividing and spreading.
Jul 25th, 2014
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A recent study at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has called into question the existence of silicene, thought to be one of the world's newest and hottest two-dimensional nanomaterials.
Jul 25th, 2014
Read moreA new study has furthered our understanding of how tiny nanosystems function, unlocking the potential to create new materials using nanosized 'building blocks'.
Jul 25th, 2014
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Forscher vom Fraunhofer-Institut f�r Werkstoffmechanik IWM in Freiburg haben nun mit einer aufwendigen Computersimulation gezeigt, dass nanokristalline Schichten die Reibung zwar reduzieren, dass es aber dennoch zum Verschleiss kommen kann.
Jul 25th, 2014
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The first supercomputer simulations of 'spin-orbit' forces between neutrons and protons in an atomic nucleus open the door for numerical modeling of nuclear interactions.
Jul 25th, 2014
Read moreA new phase of matter known as topological insulators, until recently known only for esoteric quantum-mechanical properties, might have a practical use in controlling magnetic memory and logic devices.
Jul 25th, 2014
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Adding to the growing fundamental understanding of the machinery of muscle cells, a group of biophysicists describe how actin filaments are stabilized at one of their ends to form a basic muscle structure called the sarcomere.
Jul 25th, 2014
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A novel combination of microscopy and data processing has given researchers an unprecedented look at the surface of a material known for its unusual physical and electrochemical properties.
Jul 24th, 2014
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