For years, the metal nanoparticles used in catalysts have been getting smaller and smaller. Now, a research team at TU Wien in Vienna, Austria have shown that everything is suddenly different when you arrive at the smallest possible size: a single...
Jan 22, 2021
Edge states are an emerging concept in physics and have been explored as an efficient strategy to manipulate electrons, photons and phonons for next-generation hybrid electro-optomechanical circuits. Scientists have used gapless chiral edge states...
Jan 22, 2021
Scientists have found a way to enhance hybrid flow batteries and their commercial use. The new approach can store electricity in these batteries for very long durations for about a fifth the price of current technologies, with minimal location res...
Jan 22, 2021
Researchers have developed a stable graphene oxide nanofiltration membrane with uniform pore size to remove organic micropollutants.
Jan 22, 2021
The newly developed shape memory polymer resist, which allows for high-resolution 4D printing, promises a platform for information hiding for optical anti-counterfeiting and tunable photonic devices.
Jan 22, 2021
A sheet of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene can host novel topological phases of matter, a study has revealed.
Jan 22, 2021
Bringing together soft, malleable living cells with hard, inflexible electronics can be a difficult task. UChicago researchers have developed a new method to face this challenge by utilizing microscopic structures to build up bioelectronics rather...
Jan 22, 2021
Nanofiltration (NF) is an advanced technology for treating wastewater containing organic micropollutants (OMPs).
Jan 22, 2021
Stacking multiple sheets of two-dimensional nanomaterials such as graphene on top of each other leads to the formation of small gaps between the sheets that could find an extensive range of potential...
Jan 22, 2021
Two novel techniques, atomic-resolution real-time video and conical carbon nanotube confinement, allow researchers to view never-before-seen details about crystal formation. The observations confirm...
Jan 22, 2021
