A new process for restoring spent cathodes to mint condition could make it more economical to recycle lithium-ion batteries. The process, developed by nanoengineers, is more environmentally friendly than today's methods; it uses greener ingre...
Nov 12, 2020
Small electronic circuits power our everyday lives, from the tiny cameras in our phones to the microprocessors in our computers. To make those devices even smaller, scientists and engineers are designing circuitry components out of single molecule...
Nov 12, 2020
A major technical challenge for any practical, real-world quantum computer comes from the need for a large number of physical qubits to deal with errors that accumulate during computation. Such quantum error correction is resource-intensive and co...
Nov 12, 2020
Nanographene is a material that is anticipated to radically improve solar cells, fuel cells, LEDs, and more. Typically the synthesis of this material has been... The post A New and Efficient Way to Create Nanographene for Power and Display Device...
Nov 12, 2020
The development of functional nanomaterials has been a major landmark in the history of materials science. Nanoparticles with diameters ranging from 5 to 500 nm have unprecedented properties, such as high catalytic activity, compared to their bulk...
Nov 12, 2020
Scientists have synthesized sub-nanometer particles with precisely controlled proportions of indium and tin using specific macromolecular templates called dendrimers. Through a screening process spanning different metallic ratios, they discovered ...
Nov 12, 2020
Researchers have succeeded in creating low-noise states at wavelengths between 700 and 800 nanometres, i.e. close to the visible red range. This would, for example, enable coupling to other photonic systems.
Nov 12, 2020
Industry has an increasingly urgent need to switch to sustainable, synthetic schemes to access widely used chemicals. In this context, it is crucial to come up with heterogeneous photocatalysis processes using readily available, metal-free catalysts.
Nov 12, 2020
Chemotherapy is defined as the use of chemicals to reach and damage cancer cells. On its way toward the tumor, the drugs can affect healthy cells, as well. For example, cisplatin, a common drug used in clinical treatments, is not selective and cau...
Nov 12, 2020
Researchers from the University of Bristol have claimed a new record for detecting squeezed light, using a newly developed balanced homodyne detector. The work could pave the way for higher-performance quantum computers and quantum communications....
Nov 12, 2020
