Researchers examine some of thelatest advances in wearable electronic devices and systems being developed using electrospinning -- the fabrication of nanofibers with tunable properties from a polymer base -- and showcase the many advantages electr...
Jun 28, 2022
Unusually shaped microcrystals formed of pure, graphite-like carbon were discovered in the dust of the 21st-century's largest meteorite. They are likely to have grown in layers from complex carbon nuclei such as fullerene.
Jun 28, 2022
Polymer-based fabrication of nanofibers with tunable properties takes wearables to the next level.
Jun 28, 2022
Scientists have recently developed amine-terminated nanodiamonds (ND) by modifying carboxylic acid-functionalized nanodiamonds (ND-COOH) with poly(amidoamine) dendrimer (PAMAM). The newly designed ND exhibited a high potential as a candidate for d...
Jun 28, 2022
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are a class of semiconducting materials with thicknesses on the atomic scale. These materials have numerous advantageous properties, including good mobilities at thicknesses below 1 nm, which make them particula...
Jun 28, 2022
Boron nitride nanotubes used to be hard to process, according to Rice University researchers. Not anymore.
Jun 28, 2022
A film just 250 nanometers or 0.00025 mm thick has given scientists a sneak peek into the ultrafast world.
Jun 28, 2022
Acoustic waves are slower than electromagnetic waves of the same frequency but, even in the high-speed world of computing and communications, that's not a bad thing. Short acoustic waves are easy to confine in nanoscale structures, do not re...
Jun 28, 2022
A UK-based start-up called Vector Homes, working on new techniques and materials for sustainable housing using graphene, has announced securing nearly £200,000 (almost USD$245,800) in Smart Grant funding by Innovate UK.
Jun 28, 2022
By trapping light into tiny gaps only a few atoms wide, a team from the NanoPhotonics Center at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has magnified optical forces a thousand-fold, strong enough to force atoms into positions that ...
Jun 27, 2022
