Engineers have demonstrated a new material they call 'nanocardboard', an ultrathin equivalent of corrugated paper cardboard. A square centimeter of nanocardboard weighs less than a thousandth of a gram and can spring back into shape after being bent in half.
Nov 6th, 2018
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An international team developed a new method for measuring the response of crystals on the electric field.
Nov 6th, 2018
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Researchers map nanoscale changes in memory material.
Nov 6th, 2018
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A new research report describes in detail how perovskites form and decay. The results could help produce high-performance solar cells in the future.
Nov 6th, 2018
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Scientists are working to develop a method to convert water and carbon dioxide to the renewable energy of the future, using the energy from the sun and graphene applied to the surface of cubic silicon carbide.
Nov 6th, 2018
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Think of it as mathematics with a bite: Researchers have uncovered the statistical rules that govern how gigantic colonies of fire ants form bridges, ladders and floating rafts. The findings may help researchers understand other dynamic networks in nature, including cells in the human body.
Nov 6th, 2018
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Researchers for the first time have shown that they can use electrical fields to gain valuable information about the tiny, floating vesicles that move around in animals and plants and are critically important to many biological functions.
Nov 6th, 2018
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Electrical engineers have adapted a molecular electronic device called a single-molecule break junction to detect RNA from strains of E. coli known for causing illness.
Nov 5th, 2018
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Scientists have developed a new technique to control the magnetism of a single copper atom, a technology that could one day allow individual atomic nuclei to store and process information.
Nov 5th, 2018
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A type of two-dimensional layered material called MXene has emerged as a candidate to assist in replacing the body's waste filtration system in wearable kidneys.
Nov 5th, 2018
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New materials are being synthesized by twisting and stacking atomically thin layers. To bring it all under one roof, physicists propose this field of research be called 'electron quantum metamaterials'.
Nov 5th, 2018
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The Life NanoEXPLORE project addresses current data gaps and barriers limiting the implementation of REACH regulation and the use of human bio-monitoring data in the protection of human health and the environment when dealing with particles in the nanometer range.
Nov 5th, 2018
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Researchers have developed a photocatalytic system based on a material in the class of metal-organic frameworks. The system can be used to degrade pollutants present in water while simultaneously producing hydrogen that can be captured and used further.
Nov 5th, 2018
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Researchers have designed semiconductor nanoplatelets with a broadened range of colors to improve LCD and LED screens.
Nov 5th, 2018
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Researchers describe a method for coaxing segments of single-stranded DNA into complex 2- and 3D knotted structures.
Nov 3rd, 2018
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Scientists developed specially coated nanometer-sized vehicles that can be actively moved through dense tissue like the vitreous of the eye.
Nov 2nd, 2018
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