X-ray experiments suggest high tunability of 2-D material
Scientists use a new x-ray platform to see microscale details in monolayer material's electronic structure.
Jan 26th, 2018
Read moreScientists use a new x-ray platform to see microscale details in monolayer material's electronic structure.
Jan 26th, 2018
Read moreResearchers have designed a system of minuscule two-ended hooks, made out of calcite, that can 'grow' from silicone into tissue to fix themselves into place.
Jan 26th, 2018
Read moreScientists have proved that unconventional AFM probes are suitable to acquire a trueness piezoelectric signal in Piezoresponse Force Microscopy.
Jan 26th, 2018
Read moreA new study shows that our immune system handles graphene oxide in a manner similar to pathogens, paving the way for safer biomedical applications of this two-dimensional material.
Jan 26th, 2018
Read moreResearchers have demonstrated how to create a super-strong aluminum alloy that rivals the strength of stainless steel, an advance with potential industrial applications.
Jan 26th, 2018
Read moreResearchers showed that quantum information of an electron spin can be transported to a photon, in a silicon quantum chip. This is important in order to connect quantum bits across the chip and allowing to scale up to large numbers of qubits.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreThe discovery brings the worlds of spintronics and nanophotonics closer together and might lead to the development of an energy-efficient way of processing data, in data centres, for example.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreScientists have proven that a silicon-gold nanoparticle can act as an effective source of white light when agitated by a pulse laser in IR band.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreResearchers have identified a mechanism that triggers shape-memory phenomena in organic crystals used in plastic electronics.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreScientists are optimizing nanostructures for energy devices such as solar cells.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreResearchers have experimented with a combination of laser technology and chemical knowledge, coming up with a sensor consisting of one single molecule that is a few hundred times more accurate than existing devices used to measure nano-forces on the molecular level.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreA new ERC grant allows a chemist to deal with ultrafast time- and space-resolved dynamics in molecular-plasmonic hybrid systems.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreLong sought-after form of cubic, semiconducting titanium nitride synthesized.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreResearchers intelligently design new highly efficient organic solar cells based on amorphous electronic materials with potential for easy printing.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreUsing clues provided by bone healing mechanisms, researchers added a healing activator to crystalline grain boundaries, enabling the ceramic to fully heal cracks in as little as one minute at 1,000 C, the operating temperature of an aircraft engine.
Jan 25th, 2018
Read moreNanoengineers have developed an energy-efficient recycling process that restores used cathodes from spent lithium ion batteries and makes them work just as good as new.
Jan 25th, 2018
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