Finding chemicals inside a cell
Chemical and topographical single-cell imaging at nanoscale resolution by near-field desorption mass spectrometry.
Feb 12th, 2019
Read moreChemical and topographical single-cell imaging at nanoscale resolution by near-field desorption mass spectrometry.
Feb 12th, 2019
Read moreScientists have discovered the mechanism involved when transition metal dichalcogenides on metallic substrates transform from the semiconducting 1H-phase to the quasi-metallic 1T'-phase.
Feb 12th, 2019
Read moreResearchers have demonstrated a new hardware platform based on isolated electron spins in a two-dimensional material. The electrons are trapped by defects in sheets of hexagonal boron nitride, a one-atom-thick semiconductor material, and the researchers were able to optically detect the system's quantum states.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreResearchers have imaged a battery as it was quickly charged and discharged, allowing for the observation of lithium plating behavior that can inhibit the battery's long-term function.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreOne of the key building blocks of flexible photonic circuits and ultra-thin optics are metasurfaces. Engineers have now discovered a simple way of making these surfaces in just a few minutes -- without needing a clean room -- using a method already employed in manufacturing.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreQuantum interference effects can cause substantial variation in the conductance properties of molecule-scale devices. By controlling the quantum interference, researchers showed that electrical conductance of a single molecule can be fine-tuned over two orders of magnitude.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreResearchers built an integrated soliton microcomb operating at a repetition rate of 88 GHz using a chip-scale indium phosphide laser diode and the silicon nitride microresonator. At only 1 cubic cm in size, the device is the smallest of its kind to-date.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read morePhysicists has found a way to stabilize the color of light being emitted from a promising class of next-generation materials that researchers believe could be the basis for efficient and more cost-effective optoelectronic technologies that can turn light into electricity or vice versa.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreThe novel wind and solar energy-harvesting flags have been developed using flexible piezoelectric strips and flexible photovoltaic cells.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreScientists have developed a method to construct highly complex molecular tessellations using a single molecular building block.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreAdding olefin enables efficient solvent-free cross-coupling reactions, leading to environmentally friendly syntheses of a wide range of organic materials.
Feb 11th, 2019
Read moreResearchers describe how pseudomorphic replacement, the same chemical process that turns a tree to stone, aided their synthesis of the first metal-organic framework (MOF) around light-powered aluminum nanocatalysts.
Feb 8th, 2019
Read moreNew research shows that synthetic solid-state nanopores can have finely tuned transport behaviors much like the biological channels that allow a neuron to fire.
Feb 8th, 2019
Read moreA recent study presents a new, combination-based way to quantify and analyze the effect of graphene at the single cell level.
Feb 8th, 2019
Read moreExperimental study on monolayer tungsten ditelluride could lead to more energy-efficient electronic devices.
Feb 8th, 2019
Read moreStable, color-changing compound shows potential for electronics, sensors and gas storage.
Feb 8th, 2019
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