Aerogel is an excellent thermal insulator. So far, however, it has mainly been used on a large scale, for example in environmental technology, in physical experiments or in industrial catalysis. Empa researchers have now succeeded in making aeroge...
Aug 20, 2020
There are many things quantum dots could do, but the most obvious place they could change our lives is to make the colors on our TVs and screens more pristine. Research using the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan is hel...
Aug 20, 2020
There are many things quantum dots could do, but the most obvious place they could change our lives is to make the colours on our TVs and screens more pristine.
Aug 20, 2020
Metamaterials are materials designed with a particular geometric structure in order to obtain new physical properties. A metamaterial can alter the propagation of elastic waves so as to reduce or block them over a certain range of frequencies — th...
Aug 20, 2020
Researchers succeeded in making aerogels accessible to microelectronics and precision engineering: They show how 3D-printed parts made of silica aerogels and silica composite materials can be manufactured with high precision.
Aug 20, 2020
A group of Canadian companies has published 51 antibodies that show promising ability to bind the COVID-19 virus which could result in neutralizing the virus.
Aug 20, 2020
Researchers summarize the recent progress in the application of rare earth-doped nanoparticles in the field of bio-imaging and tumor treatment and discuss the luminescent mechanism, properties, and structure design.
Aug 20, 2020
Researchers have fashioned ultrathin silicon nanoantennas that trap and redirect light, for applications in quantum computing, LIDAR and even the detection of viruses.
Aug 20, 2020
Case Western Reserve University physics professor Giuseppe Strangi and collaborators at Harvard and the Italian university UniCal have taken a step toward making "metalenses" even more useful--by making them reconfigurable. They did th...
Aug 20, 2020
Cornell researchers used an ultrathin graphene "sandwich" to create a tiny magnetic field sensor that can operate over a greater temperature range than previous sensors, while also detecting miniscule changes in magnetic fields that migh...
Aug 20, 2020
