Sila Nanotechnologies will begin producing batteries with silicon anodes in Washington State starting in 2024.
May 4, 2022
Researchers use silicon nanoparticles to help visualize the coalescence of quantized vortices that occur in superfluid helium, which can help improve our understanding of quantum fluids and materials, including superconductors.
May 4, 2022
Scientists from the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University have shown how silicon nanoparticles can become trapped inside the vortices that form inside superfluid helium. This work opens up new possibilities in optical research...
May 4, 2022
Scientists have developed a qubit platform formed by freezing neon gas into a solid, spraying electrons from a light bulb's filament onto it, and trapping a single electron there. This system shows great promise as an ideal building block for...
May 4, 2022
You are no doubt viewing this article on a digital device whose basic unit of information is the bit, either 0 or 1. Scientists worldwide are racing to develop a new kind of computer based on the use of quantum bits, or qubits, which can simultane...
May 4, 2022
A new study developed a novel organic farming technique that produces quality plants and higher crop yields. Read more about the method and the specialized nanofertilizers used in the research.
May 4, 2022
Nanomaterials are widely used in biosensors to enhance their sensitivity in detecting impurities in trace quantities. In an article recently published in the journal Chemosphere, the authors...
May 4, 2022
Since graphene was first isolated and characterized in the early 2000s, researchers have been exploring ways to use this atomically thin nanomaterial because of its unique properties such as high tensile strength and conductivity.
May 4, 2022
A group of researchers recently published a paper in the journal ACS Nano that demonstrated the effect of moire interlayer modulation on the van der Waals (vdW) potential of twisted, layered materials...
May 4, 2022
Antimony (Sb) pollution is a serious environmental concern in mining-affected regions. The use of nanoparticles to extract such metallic species has piqued the interest of researchers in the last...
May 4, 2022
