Scientists have long been working on improving their ability to use lasers to move small objects without actually touching them. This method of 'optical trapping and manipulation' is already utilized in optics, biological sciences and ch...
Mar 26, 2021
Generally, when crystals are grown, atoms will initially combine together into tiny clusters. This process is referred to as nucleation. Stills from a slow-motion video of the reversible Au crystal...
Mar 26, 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 turn them on in a snap. Converters transform...
Mar 26, 2021
On the nanometric scale (one billionth of a metre), materials can feature new properties. A French team together with an Austrian one recently took an important step forward by mapping one of these...
Mar 26, 2021
A European research team developed a dye- and DNA programming-based approach for counting molecules present within individual complexes. The approach supports biomedical and life sciences applications, as well as those involving OLEDs, solar cells...
Mar 26, 2021
It is one of the softest white pigments used by the industry. However, zinc sulfide turns gray over time if it is not appropriately pretreated. Chemists under the leadership of the Center for Nanointegration (CENIDE) at the UDE discovered a way to...
Mar 26, 2021
One prospective source of renewable energy is hydrogen gas produced from water with the aid of sunlight. Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a material, nanoporous cubic silicon carbide, that exhibits promising properties ...
Mar 26, 2021
Researchers have demonstrated that stretching shape-memory polymers embedded with clusters of gold nanoparticles alters their plasmon-coupling, giving rise to desirable optical properties. One potential application for the material is a sensor tha...
Mar 26, 2021
Nanowires are vital components for future nanoelectronics, sensors, and nanomedicine. To achieve the required complexity, it is necessary to control the position and growth of the metal chains on an atomic level. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, ...
Mar 26, 2021
Scientists have developed a method to use lasers to control the movement of nanodiamonds with fluorescent centers.
Mar 26, 2021
