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This Memory Tech Is Better When It's Bendy

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

For stick-on displays, smart bandages, and cheap flexible plastic sensors to really take off, they'll need some way of storing data for the long-term that can be built on plastic. "In the ecosystem of flexible electronics, having memory ...

Sep 9, 2021

Reconfigurable metasurfaces provide nanoscale light control

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers have designed electromechanically reconfigurable ultrathin optical elements that can be controlled and programmed on a pixel-by-pixel level. These versatile metasurfaces could offer a new chip-based way to achieve nanoscale control of ...

Sep 9, 2021

Pivotal Discovery of Nanomaterial for LEDs: New Low-Cost, Energy-Efficient Light Source

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Breakthrough in stabilizing nanocrystals introduces a low-cost, energy-efficient light source for consumer electronic devices, detectors, and medical imaging.

Sep 9, 2021

Reconfigurable metasurfaces provide nanoscale light control: Technique inspired by the art of paper cutting used to make metasurfaces that could benefit optical displays and information encoding

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have designed new metasurfaces using nanoscale techniques inspired by kirigami that could offer a new chip-based way to achieve nanoscale control of light, which could lead to better optical displays, information encoding and digital l...

Sep 9, 2021

The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Atoms [Sponsored]

Scientific American   -   Scientific News Websites

Gerd Binnig shared the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience in 2016 for inventing the atomic force microscope. What transformative impact has this invention had on nanoscience?

Sep 9, 2021

Breakthrough achievement in quantum computing

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have set a world record for innovation in quantum computing.

Sep 9, 2021

These Fridge-Free COVID-19 Vaccines Are Grown in Plants and Bacteria

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed COVID-19 vaccine candidates that can take the heat.

Sep 9, 2021

Lead-free rare-earth-based double perovskite nanocrystals with near-infrared emission

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Lead-free halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) with unique optical properties are promising in light-emitting diodes (LEDs), photodetectors, and solar cells.

Sep 9, 2021

New substance classes for nanomaterials: Nano spheres and diamond slivers made of silicon and germanium

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

The latest generations of computer chips are only a few nanometres in size and are becoming ever more energy-saving and powerful as a result of progressive miniaturization. Since the etching processes traditionally used in chip production are incr...

Sep 9, 2021

A water-repellent nanomaterial inspired by nature

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A team of researchers at the University of Central Florida have created a new nanomaterial that repels water and can stay dry even when submerged underwater.

Sep 9, 2021

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