Buildings made of porous rock can weather over the years. Now scientists have studied in detail how silicate nanoparticles can help save them. Many historical buildings were built of sandstone. It is easy to work with, but does not withstand weath...
Jul 11, 2022
Many historical buildings were built of sandstone, including Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. Sandstone is easy to work with, but does not withstand weathering. It consists of sand grains that are relatively weakly bonded to each other,...
Jul 11, 2022
Data centers -; dedicated spaces for storing, processing and disseminating data -; enable everything from cloud computing to video streaming. In the process, they consume a large amount of energy transferring data back and forth inside the center....
Jul 11, 2022
For the first time, researchers in the UK and Japan have identified the locations where materials known as perovskites begin to degrade. This degradation, which is caused by the formation of defects that act as “traps” for charge carriers moving t...
Jul 11, 2022
Superconductivity seems to run in the family as far as graphene is concerned.
Jul 11, 2022
Beautifully designed, energy-generating bio-panels that suck up carbon dioxide and pump out biomass for use as fuel or fertilizer – that's the idea behind Mexican startup Greenfluidics and its nanotech-enhanced microalgae bioreactor building ...
Jul 11, 2022
Greece-based Pleione Energy has worked with ESA on a project to industrialize the production of Li-ion battery electrodes incorporating graphene as their main active material, producing in the tens of meters at a time.
Jul 11, 2022
Nanoracks, in conjunction with NASA's Johnson Space Center, has successfully expelled 172 lb (78 kg) of trash from the International Space Station (ISS) in a high-tech bin liner that was ejected using the station's Bishop Airlock on June...
Jul 10, 2022
MIT engineers expand the capabilities of these ultrasensitive nanoscale detectors, with potential uses for biological sensing and quantum computing.
Jul 10, 2022
The ability to turn superconductivity off and on with a literal flip of a switch in so-called “magic-angle twisted graphene” has allowed engineers at Caltech to observe an unusual phenomenon that may shed new light on superconductivity in general.
Jul 10, 2022
