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PI (Physik Instrumente) Continues Expansion in Asia-Pacific Region

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Precision motion control and nanopositioning systems leader PI (Physik Instrumente) is proud to announce the expansion of its worldwide offices to Changzhou, China with an R&D and manufacturing...

Apr 29, 2021

New Nanoparticle Material Developed for Efficient Water Desalination

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Titanium dioxide nanoparticles decorated by gold absorb about 96% of the solar spectrum and turn it into heat. The material can accelerate the evaporation in... The post New Nanoparticle Material Developed for Efficient Water Desalination appeare...

Apr 29, 2021

Research advances emerging DNA sequencing technology

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have moved closer toward this goal by developing a nanopore sequencing platform that, for the first time, can detect the presence of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA and RNA. The study was pu...

Apr 29, 2021

Researchers investigate structural changes in snap-frozen proteins

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at the University of Bonn and the Research Center caesar have succeeded in ultra-fast freezing proteins after a precisely defined period of time. They were able to follow structural changes on the microsecond time scale and with sub-na...

Apr 28, 2021

Scientists see chemical short-range order in medium-entropy alloy

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Chinese scientists have made direct observations of face-centered cubic VCoNi (medium)-entropy alloys (MEA) and for the first time proposed a convincing identification of subnanoscale chemical short-range order (CSRO). This achievement undisputedl...

Apr 28, 2021

For The First Time, Electronics Printed On Paper Can Be Fully Recycled

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Long-lasting devices written with carbon nanomaterial inks can be remade into new ones when their work is done

Apr 28, 2021

For The First Time, Electronics Printed On Paper Can Be Fully Recycled

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

With a cocktail of carbon-based inks, engineers have made the first fully printable and recyclable electronic circuits on paper. The sturdy, high-performance devices last for months, and can be decomposed at the end to recover the carbon material...

Apr 28, 2021

Measuring the Moon's nano dust is no small matter

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Like a chameleon of the night sky, the moon often changes its appearance. It might look larger, brighter or redder, for example, due to its phases, its position in the solar system or smoke in Earth's atmosphere. (It is not made of green chee...

Apr 28, 2021

Mapping the electronic states in an exotic superconductor

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists characterized how the electronic states in a compound containing iron, tellurium, and selenium depend on local chemical concentrations. They discovered that superconductivity (conducting electricity without resistance), along with disti...

Apr 28, 2021

A path to graphene topological qubits

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In the quantum realm, electrons can group together to behave in interesting ways. Magnetism is one of these behaviors that we see in our day-to-day life, as is the rarer phenomena of superconductivity. Intriguingly, these two behaviors are often a...

Apr 28, 2021

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