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
The synthesis of formate, an energy carrier, from CO2 using electricity derived from renewable sources is attracting much attention as a technology for recycling and reusing CO2. Here, we focus on reduced graphene oxide (rGO) as a dispersed Sn sup...
Mar 24, 2021
Experimental flu shots have now been developed that protect animals from a wide variety of season and pandemic influenza strains. The vaccine candidate is being advanced toward clinical testing. If proven safe and effective, these next-generatio...
Mar 24, 2021
Van der Waals forces – the adhesive forces that also enable geckos to stick to walls – make handling nanofibres extremely difficult....
Mar 24, 2021
2D materials like graphene have revolutionized materials science. Now a new interesting option has been added to this field of research: Two thin material layers can be stacked and twisted by a certain angle. This leads to a Moiré-effect and chang...
Mar 23, 2021
Metal-insulator transition (MIT) driven by many-body interactions is an important phenomenon in condensed matter physics. Exotic phases always emerge around the metal-insulator transition points where quantum fluctuations arise from a competition ...
Mar 23, 2021
Researchers have developed a novel type of thermometer that can simply and quickly measure temperatures during quantum calculations with extremely high accuracy. The breakthrough provides a benchmarking tool for quantum computing of great value - ...
Mar 23, 2021
Optical resonators provide the foundation of modern photonics and optics. Thanks to its extreme energy confinement, the high-Q-factor optical resonator optimizes light-matter interaction and photonic...
Mar 23, 2021
A team of nanobiotechnologists at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) led by Wyss Founding Core Faculty member William Shih,...
Mar 23, 2021
Image Credit: Rost9/shutterstock.com Graphene, a new impressive material, has been described as “the wonder material” due to the remarkable properties it exhibits. This material...
Mar 23, 2021
