Using single calcite crystals with varying surface roughness allows engineers to simplify the complex physics that describes fault movement. In a new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, researchers show how this simplification ...
Aug 2, 2022
Quantum computing, though still in its early days, has the potential to dramatically increase processing power by harnessing the strange behavior of particles at the smallest scales. Some research groups have already reported performing calculatio...
Aug 2, 2022
Scientists created a synthesis route in which fish scales removed from fish waste after cleaning are turned into carbo nano-onions or CNOs. Read to know more.
Aug 2, 2022
Concurrent control over band gap and the charge carrier density in semiconductors is desirable in photodetectors, highly tunable transistors, and lasers. Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene is a van-der-Waals material that permits tuning the band gap ...
Aug 2, 2022
Carbon-based nanomaterials are increasingly being used in electronics, energy conversion and storage, catalysis, and biomedicine due to their low toxicity, chemical stability, and exceptional electrical and optical capabilities.
Aug 2, 2022
Spatiotemporal delivery of nanoparticles at the cellular level is desirable in nanomedicine to deliver a maximum cytotoxic drug into cancer cells via the accumulation of the nanoparticles in tumors. Nevertheless, the cancer-associated fibroblasts ...
Aug 2, 2022
Putting nanoparticles from shrimp shells into cement paste made the material significantly stronger -- an innovation that could lead to reduced seafood waste and lower carbon emissions from concrete production.
Aug 2, 2022
Plasmonic nanoactuators mimic living systems in terms of their adaptability to uncontrolled environments. Thus, they have been applied in human-centered robotic applications and necessitated smart-ligand functionalized plasmonic nanoparticles to c...
Aug 2, 2022
A paper published in the journal Materials Science and Engineering: B reported the green synthesis of graphene oxide/silver nanoparticle nanocomposite via an eco-friendly chemistry approach.
Aug 2, 2022
Putting nanoparticles from shrimp shells into cement paste made the material significantly stronger—an innovation that could lead to reduced seafood waste and lower carbon emissions from concrete production.
Aug 2, 2022
