A new way to check the quality of nanomaterials like graphene has emerged from a team at the University of Sussex. Graphene and nanomaterials have been touted as wonder materials, and they are...
Aug 13, 2020
A new mechanism of blood redistribution that is essential for the proper functioning of the adult retina has just been discovered in vivo by researchers at the University of Montreal Hospital Research...
Aug 13, 2020
Engineers have developed a system of nanoscale semiconductor strips that uses structural color interactions to eliminate the strips' intrinsic color entirely.
Aug 13, 2020
Most of the time, a material's color stems from its chemical properties. Different atoms and molecules absorb different wavelengths of light; the remaining wavelengths are the "intrinsic colors" that we perceive when they are reflec...
Aug 13, 2020
Physicists from Yale University have developed an "error-correcting cat". This device combines the concept of superposition from the famous Schrödinger's cat experiment, and the ability to fix some of the persisting problems with qu...
Aug 13, 2020
Researchers propose a novel multiple-frequency triboelectric nanogenerator based on a water balloon to harvest water wave energy.
Aug 13, 2020
Supercapacitors hold incredible potential when it comes to energy storage, with an ability to charge and discharge almost instantly being one of their major selling points. Were key components for these next-generation devices to come from sustain...
Aug 13, 2020
An ultrathin optical lens made from monolayer of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) could pave the way for next-generation imaging devices. An international team of researchers, led by Prof. Baohua Jia from Swinburne Universi...
Aug 13, 2020
Yale physicists have developed an error-correcting cat—a new device that combines the Schrödinger's cat concept of superposition (a physical system existing in two states at once) with the ability to fix some of the trickiest errors in a quan...
Aug 12, 2020
Coupling electrons to optical resonators could lead to novel technologies for nanoscale sensing and microscopy The post Light waves steer electron beams thanks to whispering gallery effect appeared first on Physics World.
Aug 12, 2020
