While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She says the experience taught her that “precision and creativity are necessary to build something excellent.” “Working as a furniture ma...
Jan 7, 2022
Self-healing nanomaterials usable in solar panels and other electronic devices are being explored at the Technion. From the Terminator to Spiderman’s suit, self-repairing robots and... The post Self-Healing Nanomaterials: Self-Repairing Electroni...
Jan 7, 2022
A group of researchers developed an efficient approach for handling high-ash fine coal utilizing water comprising positively charged nanobubbles (PCNBs) and polyaluminum chloride (PAC) in a work...
Jan 7, 2022
Using a simple redox-precipitation approach, a research team has recently reported their synthesis of ultrathin NiCoFe-NDA (NDA=2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid) nanosheets for high efficiency oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in anion exchange memb...
Jan 7, 2022
In an article recently published in the ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces journal, a single-step phosphorization method was used to create low-crystallinity Fe2P2O7 nanoplates that were...
Jan 7, 2022
Researchers have developed a computational approach for simulating interactions between matter and light at the atomic scale. The team tested their method by modeling light -- matter interactions in a thin film of amorphous silicon dioxide, compos...
Jan 7, 2022
Women have a variety of methods for contraception, but only two methods are commonly available to men: condoms and vasectomies. Both methods have their drawbacks.
Jan 7, 2022
Nanozymes, a form of nanoparticles with enzyme-like capabilities, are a viable replacement for biocatalysts, specifically, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) as per the latest article...
Jan 7, 2022
It is one of the humans' desired goals that we want to precisely control the heat transport as the level as that we can control the electrical current. However, a high-performance thermal rectifier or thermal diode is still missing. Currently...
Jan 7, 2022
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) offers a method for label-free imaging of nanoscale biomolecular dynamics to solve biological questions that cannot be addressed via other bioimaging methods including fluorescence and scanning electron microscopy. Si...
Jan 7, 2022
