Nanowires are, undoubtedly, crucial components for next-generation sensors, nanoelectronics, and nanomedicine. Image Credit: © Wiley-VCH, Angewandte Chemie International Edition. To obtain...
Mar 29, 2021
A team in Portugal has introduced a method for the sustainable conversion of solar energy into hydrogen, relying on biohybrid systems — combinations of nonphotosynthetic materials, bacteria, and semiconductor nanoparticles. The ability of those ba...
Mar 29, 2021
At low energy levels, quantum dots are able to absorb light and convert it to a different color at nearly 100% efficiency. At higher excitation energies required for brighter screens and other technologies, the level of efficiency drops dramatical...
Mar 29, 2021
Back in 2017, we looked at a cutting-edge piece of footwear from British outfit inov-8, which had teamed up with material scientists at the University of Manchester to develop the world's first graphene-soled running shoes. A few years on and...
Mar 29, 2021
Researchers successfully demonstrated that adding clusters of gold nanoparticles to shape-memory polymers, then stretching them, changes their plasmon-coupling traits, allowing them to have different and beneficial optical properties.
Mar 29, 2021
Rice University scientists optimize a process to turn rubber from discarded tires into soluble graphene for composite materials, including cement in more environmentally friendly concrete.
Mar 29, 2021
Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of using nanomaterials to identify and enrich skeletal stem cells -- a discovery which could eventually lead to new treatments for major bone fractures and the repair of lost or...
Mar 29, 2021
Researchers at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and the University of Graz, together with experts from France, have succeeded in imaging so-called surface phonons in three dimensions for the first time. The research success could accelerate...
Mar 29, 2021
Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers devised a technique for imaging biological samples down to an accuracy of about 10 nanometers -- a scale that allows them to image viruses and raises the possibility of imaging single biomolecules.
Mar 29, 2021
Power converters are the little-known systems that make electricity so magical. They are what allow us to plug in our computers, lamps and televisions and... The post New Nanotransistors Keep Their Cool at High Voltages – Perform Highly Efficient...
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