Where there’s electricity, there’s usually heat – and that’s a major hurdle for shrinking electronic devices. Scientists have now found that nanowires made of a certain isotope of silicon can conduct heat 150 percent better than regular silicon, p...
May 18, 2022
Compact and lightweight metasurfaces—which use specifically designed and patterned nanostructures on a flat surface to focus, shape and control light—are a promising technology for wearable applications, especially virtual and augmented reality sy...
May 17, 2022
Nanopositioning specialist Queensgate and the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have forged a productive collaboration yielding a good-practice implementation model for Queensgate’s in-house test and measurement programme The post Innovatio...
May 17, 2022
Nanoengineered drugs that stop harmful bacteria and viruses could be on the horizon. With antibiotic-resistant infections on the rise and a continually morphing pandemic virus, it’s easy to see why researchers want to be able to design engineered ...
May 17, 2022
Carbon nanostructures seen in circumstellar envelopes surrounding carbon-rich stars could have a chemical origin with soot particles created during fuel combustion.
May 17, 2022
A new study by scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Theranautilus, an IISc-incubated firm, indicates that nano-sized robots operated with a magnetic field might help destroy...
May 17, 2022
A research team has demonstrated an ultrathin silicon nanowire that conducts heat 150% more efficiently than conventional materials used in advanced chip technologies. The device could enable smaller, faster, energy-efficient microelectronics.
May 17, 2022
Scientists have demonstrated a new material that conducts heat 150% more efficiently than conventional materials used in advanced chip technologies.
May 17, 2022
Battery cells are complex and evolving systems, and every particle has a story to tell. At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), there is a common consensus that X-ray imaging techniques hold the key to unlocking critical information ab...
May 17, 2022
Imagine a tiny vehicle with a nanomagnetic structure, which can be steered through the human body via external magnetic fields. Arriving at its destination, the vehicle may release a drug, or heat up cancer cells without affecting healthy tissue. ...
May 17, 2022
