Researchers have developed technology to tap into infrared light for solar energy conversion and increase solar cell efficiency by 10 percent or more.
Oct 30th, 2019
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Microscopic, 3D-printed, tori - donuts � - coated with nickel and platinum may bridge the gap between biological and synthetic swimmers, according to an international team of researchers.
Oct 30th, 2019
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Scientists want to understand in as much detail as possible how the container molecules and the active substances arrange and what properties result from this.
Oct 30th, 2019
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Researchers have developed tiny, self-propelled robots that remove radioactive uranium from simulated wastewater.
Oct 30th, 2019
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Researchers have developed a stretchable light-emitting device that operates at low voltages and is safe for human skin.
Oct 30th, 2019
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Researchers have discovered a material that can both increase and reduce its volume when exposed to a weak electrical pulse. In a sponge, or filter, the researchers can control the size of particles that pass through.
Oct 29th, 2019
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Team simulates nanoelectronics through data-centric lens, gaining a 140-fold speedup on the Summit supercomputer.
Oct 29th, 2019
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New nanoparticles can adjust the beating speed of heart cells by emitting different colours of light. Light from nanoparticle clusters was also able to activate anticancer drugs within cells.
Oct 29th, 2019
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Scientists report their characterization of a soft-matter double gyroid. What they briefly thought would be a perfect double gyroid, its curving arrangement of nodes and rods repeating ad infinitum, was not to be. They found instead their hoped-for cubic construction was full of distortions.
Oct 28th, 2019
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Researchers have shown how to generate and characterize an entirely new type of light, synthetic chiral light, which identifies molecules' handedness exceptionally distinctly.
Oct 28th, 2019
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Energy-saving benefits expected in a wide variety of devices through substituting magnetic steel sheets.
Oct 28th, 2019
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Physicists have succeeded for the first time in constructing an essential element a fundamentally new generation of electronic components - a Quantum Point Contact.
Oct 28th, 2019
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Going upstream, and against a current, involves a front-first downward tilt and then moving along a surface, shows new research by a team of scientists, which created nanomotors to uncover this effective means of locomotion under such conditions.
Oct 28th, 2019
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Until now, the practical production of nanocorundum with a sufficiently high porosity has not been possible. The situation has changed radically with the presentation of a new method of nanocorundum production.
Oct 28th, 2019
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An international research team has identified a microscopic process of electron spin dynamics in nanoparticles that could impact the design of applications in medicine, quantum computation, and spintronics.
Oct 28th, 2019
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An international research team has revealed a new quantum process in valleytronics that can speed up the development of this fairly new technology.
Oct 28th, 2019
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