Due to the advantages such as large specific surface area, adjustable pore size and tunable functionality, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have shown great application potential in the fields of gas adsorption and separation, catalysis, sensing an...
Dec 30, 2019
Nematocysts are stinging organelles of cnidarians that have remarkable mechanical properties to undergo 50 percent volume changes during explosive exocytosis (process by which cells excrete waste and large molecules), while withstanding osmotic pr...
Dec 30, 2019
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous crystalline materials assembled from organic ligands and metal nodes. Construction of hierarchically porous MOFs is vital to achieve the augmentation of pore size to mesopores or macropores, which can enh...
Dec 30, 2019
Researchers have developed nanocomposite ceramics with uniform distribution of two phases, microhardness over 11 GPa, and average grain size of 250 nm. It capable of transmitting over 70% of IR-range with wavelength up to 6,000 nm.
Dec 29, 2019
A Plethora of States in Magic-Angle Graphene A team of ICFO researchers used twisted bi-layer graphene to unveil a new zoo of previously unobserved states,... The post New Zoo of Previously Unobserved States in Twisted Bi-Layer Graphene appeared f...
Dec 29, 2019
Silicon is a compelling platform for classical optical telecommunications as well as quantum communications, both through optical fibers. In general, the silicon-based integrated quantum transceivers could provide possible low-cost and high-perfor...
Dec 28, 2019
Specialized dye, delivered along with a vaccine, could enable “on-patient” storage of vaccination history. Every year, a lack of vaccination leads to about 1.5 million... The post Storing Medical Records Below the Skin’s Surface With Quantum Dot ...
Dec 28, 2019
Imagine a world where people could only talk to their next-door neighbor, and messages must be passed house to house to reach far destinations.
Dec 28, 2019
An international joint research team led by NIMS succeeded in fabricating a neuromorphic network composed of numerous metallic nanowires. Using this network, the team was able to generate electrical c...
Dec 28, 2019
The article "Equilibration of energies in a two-dimensional harmonic graphene lattice" published in the oldest scientific journal in the world Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society considers...
Dec 28, 2019
