Engineers' simple experiment shows potential to advance manufacturing of atomically thin membranes for commercial uses.
Mar 8, 2021
Vanderbilt engineers used a drop of rubbing alcohol, an office laminator and creativity to develop scalable processes for manufacturing single atom thin membranes. Their membranes outperformed state-of-the-art commercial dialysis membranes and th...
Mar 8, 2021
Scientists have designed minimalist biostructures that imitate natural enzymes, capable of carrying out two differentiated and reversibly regulated activities thanks to a unique combination of structural and functional properties. The strategy use...
Mar 8, 2021
A method that integrates metals into polymers for the formation of electrically conductive composites uses laser pulses to irradiate aluminum nanoparticles onto polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates. Researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic Univer...
Mar 8, 2021
Ultrananocrystalline diamond films could be a novel breakthrough for accelerator cathodes, enabling better beams When it comes to
Mar 8, 2021
Industrial-grade materials processing on the sub-micron scale is enabled by spatially structured ultrashort laser pulses. If light is strongly concentrated in time and space, resulting... The post From Microsaws to Nanodrills: Laser Pulses Act As...
Mar 8, 2021
Tiny fluorescent semiconductor dots, called quantum dots, are useful in a variety of health and electronic technologies but are made of toxic, expensive metals. Nontoxic and economic carbon-based dots are easy to produce, but they emit less light....
Mar 8, 2021
A new study by the international network Women In Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) has highlighted the equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) issues faced by women and marginalised groups working within that field.
Mar 8, 2021
Researchers at the UAB have designed minimalist biostructures that imitate natural enzymes, capable of carrying out two differentiated and reversibly regulated activities thanks to a unique combination of structural and functional properties. The ...
Mar 8, 2021
China's tech industry has been hit hard by US trade battles and the economic uncertainties of the pandemic, but it's eager to bounce back in the relatively near future. According to the Wall Street Journal, the cou...
Mar 7, 2021
