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First Fiber-Optic Nanotip Electron Gun Enables Easier Nanoscale Imaging and Sensing

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Nebraska have developed an easier way to generate electrons for nanoscale... The post First Fiber-Optic Nanotip Electron Gun Enables Easier Nanoscale Ima...

Nov 20, 2020

PI’s XYZ Piezo-Driven Nanopositioner Enables BPL Desktop Nanoprinter

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Based on a flexure-guided design, PI’s P-611 piezo nanopositioning stage combines high precision and dynamics in a compact package. Also known as the NanoCube®, this closed-loop stage...

Nov 20, 2020

PI's XYZ Piezo-Driven Nanopositioner Enables BPL Desktop Nanoprinter

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A compact 3-Axis piezo nanopositioning stage provides precision and speed for an award-winning desktop nanoprinter by TERA-print to find applications in photonics, meta-materials, electronics, soft robotics, and biomedicine.

Nov 20, 2020

Staying ahead of the curve with 3D curved graphene

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

By controlling the curvature, researchers have successfully retained the electrical properties of 2D graphene in a 3D structure.

Nov 20, 2020

Supramolecular chemistry - Self-constructed folded macrocycles with low symmetry

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

The synthesis and self-organization of biological macromolecules is essential for life on earth. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich chemists now report the spontaneous emergence of complex ring-shaped macromolecules with low degrees o...

Nov 20, 2020

New insights into memristive devices by combining incipient ferroelectrics and graphene

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Scientists are working to create neuromorphic computers, with a design based on the human brain. A crucial component is a memristive device, the resistance of which depends on the history of the device - just like the response of our neurons depen...

Nov 20, 2020

One-way street for electrons

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

An international team of physicists, led by researchers of the Universities of Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany, has recorded an ultrafast film of the directed energy transport between neighbouring molecules in a nanomaterial. Theoretical simulations...

Nov 20, 2020

Light-controlled nanomachine controls catalysis

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The vision of the future of miniaturisation has produced a series of synthetic molecular motors that are driven by a range of energy sources and can carry out various movements. A research group at FAU has now managed to control a catalysis reacti...

Nov 20, 2020

Staying ahead of the curve with 3D curved graphene

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A team of researchers has amplified 3D graphene's electrical properties by controlling its curvature.

Nov 20, 2020

Improving quantum dot interactions, one layer at a time

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Osaka City University scientists and colleagues in Japan have found a way to control an interaction between quantum dots that could greatly improve charge transport, leading to more efficient solar cells. Their findings were published in the journ...

Nov 20, 2020

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