Engineers at the University of Vienna have developed a new composite material that makes an efficient filter for removing organic pollutants from water. The system uses super-porous “nano-sponges” embedded on a sheet of graphene.
Aug 5, 2022
Nanothermites are a new realm of nano-energetic materials and are used in systems that need a fast energy release rate at low ignition temperature. However, conventional ignition methods are based on hot spots, posing the risk of unwanted ignition.
Aug 5, 2022
Portable electronic devices raised the demand for supercapacitors with high power density and mechanical flexibility within a finite area. However, currently commercialized devices come with in-plane interdigital configuration and thickness-confin...
Aug 5, 2022
In the era of biomedical applications of nanoparticles, it is imperative to determine how they affect biological functions and the fate of nanomedicine. This analysis would positively help optimize nanomedicine, reducing side effects, improving cl...
Aug 5, 2022
One of the challenges of realizing smart dust concepts, as well as nano- and microrobotics in general, is a lack of equally small on-chip power sources for ubiquitous anytime anywhere operation. Now, researchers have created an on-chip micro-Swiss...
Aug 5, 2022
A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Georgia Institute of Technology has 3D printed a dual-phase, nanostructured high-entropy alloy that exceeds the strength and ductility of other state-of-the-art additively ma...
Aug 4, 2022
Researchers have designed smart, color-controllable white light devices from quantum dots – tiny semiconductors just a few billionths of a metre in size – which are more efficient, have better colour saturation than standard LEDs, and can dynamica...
Aug 4, 2022
Using just a handful of quantum bits, researchers have used a quantum computer to simulate an infinite line of electron-like particles. The technique could be used to better understand the behaviour of molecules in materials
Aug 4, 2022
Using just a handful of quantum bits, researchers have used a quantum computer to simulate an infinite line of electron-like particles. The technique could be used to better understand the behaviour of molecules in materials
Aug 4, 2022
Machine learning, a tool increasingly used for the discovery and design of new materials, has now been adopted by researchers from Tokyo Tech to design polymer brush films with desirable protein adsorption properties. Using a random forest regress...
Aug 4, 2022
