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"Catalytic condenser" lets cheap metals act like rare, expensive ones

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

It’s an unfortunate truth that many important chemical reactions require rare and expensive metals as catalysts. But now, scientists have developed a device that actively tweaks plain old aluminum to make it behave like other metals on the fly.Con...

May 10, 2022

Graphenea Foundry launches new GFET process

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Graphenea has announced that, following the release of its GFET S30, it has developed a High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) manufacturing process to create Field-Effect Transistor (FET) structures on graphene, or GFETs. This process is now available under th...

May 10, 2022

Researchers develop simple approach for creating quantum materials

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

University of Pennsylvania scientists have recently conducted a study that shows how patterned, periodic deformations of a single layer of graphene transforms it into a material with electronic properties previously seen in twisted graphene bilaye...

May 10, 2022

NanoXplore and Solmax formalize their relationship through a blanket purchase order

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

NanoXplore and Solmax Group have announced that they have entered into a blanket purchase order, following several years of collaborative work.

May 10, 2022

We May Finally Soon Have The Ideal Building Block For Quantum Computers

ScienceAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

We already have quantum computers of a sort, but at the moment they're not practical or reliable or large-scale enough to fully realize the massive potential of the technology.

May 10, 2022

Hidden distortions trigger promising thermoelectric property

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

A study describes a new mechanism for lowering thermal conductivity to aid the search for materials that convert heat to electricity or electricity to heat. Scientists describe the previously hidden sub-nanoscale origins of exceptional thermoelect...

May 9, 2022

Scientists Build Ventricle-on-a-Chip to Study Heart Disease

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

In recent years, scientists have been using biomimetic tissue models—reconstructed tissues designed to replicate the attributes of living tissue—to study disease and development in the human body. The heart, however, is a different story. Even tho...

May 9, 2022

Self-driving microscopes discover shortcuts to new materials

Tech Xplore   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are teaching microscopes to drive discoveries with an intuitive algorithm, developed at the lab's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, that could guide breakthro...

May 9, 2022

CAP-XX and Ionic Industries to develop graphene-enhanced supercapacitors

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

CAP-XX, Australia-based manufacturer of thin-form supercapacitors and energy management systems, recently formed a joint venture for what it calls a "transformational new graphene material".

May 9, 2022

A new method for exploring the nano-world

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) and Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM) in Erlangen present a large step forward in the characterization of nanoparticles. They used a special microscopy method ba...

May 9, 2022

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