Materials scientists at Rice University and the University of Pennsylvania are calling for a collective, global effort to fast-track the mass production of 2D materials like graphene and molybdenum disulfide.
Jul 27, 2020
Nanocatalysts made of gold nanoparticles dispersed on metal oxides are very promising for the industrial, selective oxidation of compounds, including alcohols, into valuable chemicals. They show high catalytic activity, particularly in aqueous sol...
Jul 27, 2020
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and International Christian University (ICU) demonstrate a synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy-based method by which the local temperatures of metal nanoparticles can be measured under microwaves...
Jul 27, 2020
IBS research team reports a novel method to grow multi-layered, single-crystalline graphene with a selected stacking order in a wafer scale. They obtained four-layered graphene using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) via Cu-Si alloy formation.
Jul 27, 2020
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers find titanium dioxide nanoparticles produce inflammation in colon. A common food additive, recently banned in France but allowed in the U.S. and many other countries, was found to significantly alter...
Jul 26, 2020
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have engineered a method for simultaneously detecting the presence of multiple specific microRNAs in RNA extracted from tissue samples without the need for labe...
Jul 25, 2020
Intermetallic alloys potentially have high strength in a high-temperature environment. But they generally suffer poor ductility at ambient and low temperatures, hence limiting their applications in ae...
Jul 25, 2020
A group of international scientists have substantially lengthened the duration of time that a spin-orbit qubit in silicon can retain quantum information for, opening up... The post Scientists Strengthen Spin-Orbit Qubits in Milestone Critical for...
Jul 25, 2020
US officials and scientists have begun laying the groundwork for a more secure "virtually unhackable" internet based on quantum computing technology.
Jul 24, 2020
Resolving alloys' strength-ductility trade-off and thermal instability.
Jul 24, 2020
