In common perception, carbon dioxide is just a greenhouse gas, one of the major environmental problems of mankind. For Warsaw chemists CO2 became, however, something else: a key element of reactions allowing for creation of nanomaterials with unprecedented properties.
Jan 23rd, 2014
Read moreResearchers show that the Kondo effect could be exploited to change the conductance between two electrodes.
Jan 23rd, 2014
Read moreThe 2014 Summer Topicals Meeting Series is seeking original research in five topic areas focused the theme of Functional Material Integration and Optical Systems.
Jan 23rd, 2014
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Resistance of tumor cells toward multiple cytostatic drugs is a serious problem in cancer treatment. Researchers have now introduced a new approach to gene therapy that could counter this problem: The gene that codes for resistance is 'silenced' through the use of an ingenious nanocomplex.
Jan 23rd, 2014
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Scientists have studied the mechanism, rate-determining step, and charge-transfer kinetics of organic NPs by using the reductive dissolution of indigo nanoparticles as a model system.
Jan 23rd, 2014
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Classroom project evolves into journal paper about surprising applications for everyday objects.
Jan 23rd, 2014
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Technique from Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry could also work with graphene.
Jan 22nd, 2014
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Researchers have shown that a one-atom thick film of molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) may work as an effective catalyst for creating hydrogen. The work opens a new door for the production of cheap hydrogen.
Jan 22nd, 2014
Read moreIn the US, someone suffers a heart attack every 34 seconds -- their heart is starved of oxygen and suffers irreparable damage. Engineering new heart tissue in the laboratory that could eventually be implanted into patients could help, and scientists are reporting a promising approach tested with rat cells. They published their results on growing cardiac muscle using a scaffold containing carbon nanofibers
Jan 22nd, 2014
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Researchers at Illinois have developed a new theoretical model that explains macroscale fluid convection induced by plasmonic (metal) nanostructures.
Jan 22nd, 2014
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As part of his PhD, postdoctoral research fellow Dr Daniel Tune has designed a computer modelling system that shows which combination of carbon nanotubes absorb the most sunlight, therefore providing the most energy.
Jan 22nd, 2014
Read moreA UT Arlington engineering professor has proven that the effect of mass is important, can be measured and has a significant impact on any calculations and measurements at the sub-micrometer scale.
Jan 22nd, 2014
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Research hints that nanodevices in microcircuits can protect themselves from heat generation; could boost computing power without large-scale changes to electronics.
Jan 22nd, 2014
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ERC Synergy Grant of nearly EUR 10 million awarded to research group involving Professor Jairo Sinova, a theoretical physicist at Mainz University.
Jan 22nd, 2014
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Researchers have discovered a novel solid state reaction which lets kesterite grains grow within a few seconds and at relatively low temperatures. For this reaction they exploit a transition from a metastable wurtzite compound in the form of nanorods to the more stable kesterite compound.
Jan 22nd, 2014
Read moreThe sixth annual BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category goes to German physicists Maximilian Haider , Harald Rose and Knut Urban for 'greatly enhancing the resolving power of electron microscopy by developing aberration-corrected electron optics, a breakthrough enabling subatomic precision'.
Jan 22nd, 2014
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