Living tissue can heal itself from many injuries, but giving similar abilities to artificial systems, such as robots, has been extremely challenging. Now, researchers reporting in ACS' Nano Letters have developed small, swimming robots that c...
Mar 24, 2021
Imbued with special electric, mechanical and other physical properties due to their tiny size, nanofibers are considered leading-edge technology in biomedical engineering, clean energy and water quality control, among others. Now, researchers in I...
Mar 24, 2021
Decreasing the emission and efficient utilization (fixation) of carbon dioxide (CO2) are worldwide issues to prevent global warming. Promotion of the use of renewable energy is effective in reducing CO2 emissions. However, since there are large ti...
Mar 24, 2021
The secret to building superconducting quantum computers with massive processing power may be an ordinary telecommunications technology—optical fiber.
Mar 24, 2021
CPUs are built using semiconductor technology, which is capable of putting billions of transistors onto a single chip. Now, researchers from the group of Menno Veldhorst at QuTech, a collaboration between TU Delft and TNO, have shown that this tec...
Mar 24, 2021
The discovery of the material graphene, which consists of only one layer of carbon atoms, was the starting signal for a global race: Today, so-called "2D materials" are produced, made of different types of atoms. Atomically thin layers t...
Mar 24, 2021
Izon Science Ltd announced the worldwide launch of its latest nanoparticle measurement device, the Exoid. This new-generation instrument improves the existing and widely used Tunable Resistive Pulse S...
Mar 24, 2021
Ideally, a pigment should be resistant to corrosion under light irradiation—especially to UV radiation. It should also retain its white color in the long term. Today, the industry has already achieved all this with zinc sulfide, but the resulting ...
Mar 24, 2021
Join the audience for a live webinar on 14 April 2021 sponsored by Hiden Analytical, in partnership with The Electrochemical Society The post Physics of dopant emission to harness the rainbow emission of nanocrystals appeared first on Physics World.
Mar 24, 2021
Materials science likes to take nature and the special properties of living beings that could potentially be transferred to materials as a model. A research team led by chemist Professor Andreas Walther of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)...
Mar 24, 2021
