With appropriate pretreatment, aerogels could serve as efficient, visible light-active photocatalysts for industrial use. The Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials at ETH Zurich, headed by professor Markus Niederberger, demonstrated that nanopa...
Dec 22, 2021
LG has revealed a couple of monitors it's debuting at its virtual CES event, and one of them is apparently a completely new format in the market. The company's new DualUp Monitor has an unusual 16:18 aspect ratio. It's a vertical di...
Dec 22, 2021
Spurred on by the triple threats of CO2 emissions, air pollution, and fluctuating oil prices, governments around the world are encouraging auto manufacturers to replace vehicles using internal combustion engines with electrically driven power tra...
Dec 21, 2021
The iridescent shimmer that makes birds such as peacocks and hummingbirds so striking is rooted in a natural nanostructure so complex that people are only just beginning to replicate it technologically. The secret to how birds produce these brilli...
Dec 21, 2021
Researchers found that the iridescent shimmer that makes birds such as peacocks and hummingbirds so striking is rooted in an evolutionary tweak in feather nanostructure that has more than doubled the range of iridescent colors birds can display. T...
Dec 21, 2021
Researchers review scientific advances of electrolyte-gated carbon nanotube field-effect transistor biosensors, which are characterized by superior electronic properties and intrinsic signal amplification and are capable of detecting a wide range ...
Dec 21, 2021
Graphene Composites (GC) has announced a research and development partnership with Advanced Blast & Ballistic Systems (ABBS), a leading developer of active systems for protecting armored vehicles from mine and IED blasts.The partnership wi...
Dec 21, 2021
SPIE has named the 10 startups that will compete for a $10,000 top prize at the 12th annual SPIE Startup Challenge, taking place at Photonics West on Jan. 25. The finalists will be vetted for their business case, financial case, and competitive ad...
Dec 21, 2021
At the risk of sounding repetitious…2021 has been (another) extraordinary year globally, in society and here at the University. The pandemic has once again dominated the lives of our students and colleagues as we continually found ways to adapt to...
Dec 21, 2021
Invisibility devices may soon no longer be the stuff of science fiction. A new study published in the De Gruyter journal Nanophotonics by lead authors Huanyang Chen at Xiamen University, China, and Qiaoliang Bao, suggests the use of the material M...
Dec 21, 2021
