Mystery solved: a 'new kind of electrons'
Why do certain materials emit electrons with a very specific energy? This has been a mystery for decades - scientists have now found an answer.
Nov 19th, 2020
Read moreWhy do certain materials emit electrons with a very specific energy? This has been a mystery for decades - scientists have now found an answer.
Nov 19th, 2020
Read moreThe subunits could be robotically assembled to produce large, complex objects, including cars, robots, or wind turbine blades.
Nov 19th, 2020
Read moreResearchers propose a recognition method to distinguish the monolayer continuous film and random defect areas of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors using machine learning methods with Raman signals.
Nov 19th, 2020
Read moreScientists have found a way to control an interaction between quantum dots that could lead to more efficient solar cells.
Nov 19th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have proposed a simple and convenient way to obtain arbitrarily sized quantum dots required for physical experiments via chemical aging.
Nov 19th, 2020
Read moreThe new approach is based on exploiting 'hidden' irregularities at the atomic level, so-called anti-Frenkel defects. The researchers have managed to create such defects themselves, thus enabling an insulating material to become electrically conducting.
Nov 19th, 2020
Read moreScientists have designed a 2D material-based multi-stacked structure comprising tungsten disulfide layer sandwiched between hexagonal boron nitride layers that has potential for reducing circuit design complexity and power consumption.
Nov 19th, 2020
Read moreResearchers create seaweed-shaped sodium titanate mats made of nanofibers that can remove cobalt ions from water, which may help provide a source of safe, recycled drinking water by removal of heavy metals and radionuclides.
Nov 19th, 2020
Read moreSurgeons will soon have a powerful new tool for planning and practice with the creation of the first full-sized 3D bioprinted model of the human heart.
Nov 18th, 2020
Read moreAn international team of scientists has defied nature to make diamonds in minutes in a laboratory at room temperature - a process that normally requires billions of years, huge amounts of pressure and super-hot temperatures.
Nov 18th, 2020
Read moreFindings could inform design of environmental technologies behind water purification processes and electric energy storage.
Nov 18th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have designed DNA-based nanogels that only break down and release their chemotherapeutic contents within cancer cells, minimizing the impacts on normal ones and potentially eliminating painful and uncomfortable side effects.
Nov 18th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have developed a new coating material for semiconductors that may create new opportunities to produce fuels in processes that combine direct sunlight with electricity.
Nov 18th, 2020
Read moreScientists have created the largest defect-free membranes reported to date that fully exploit the unique mass transport properties of carbon nanotubes as flow channels.
Nov 18th, 2020
Read moreThe quantum dynamics of hydrogen is central to many problems in nature, being strongly influenced by the environment in which it takes place. Scientists address hydrogen transfer within a supported molecular switch, showing that the surface support can play a decisive role in the tunneling reaction.
Nov 18th, 2020
Read moreScientists develop an energy-efficient strategy to reversibly change spin orientation or magnetization direction in magnetite at room temperature.
Nov 18th, 2020
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