A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used a simple process to implant atoms precisely into the top layers of ultra-thin crystals, yielding two-sided structures with different chemical compositions. The result...
Jun 26, 2020
The last decade has seen an increase in scientific publications and patents on cellulose, the most abundant natural polymer. By reviewing these papers, a researcher in the UPV/EHU's Department of Graphic Design and Engineering Projects has ex...
Jun 26, 2020
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new method to improve the noise associated with nanoscale chemical imaging using atomic force microscopy. The improvements will increase the versatility and the preci...
Jun 26, 2020
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method for the production of wavy surfaces with nanometer precision. In the future this method could be used, for instance, to make optical components for data transmission on the internet even more effic...
Jun 25, 2020
The discovery of carbon nanostructures like two-dimensional graphene and soccer ball-shaped buckyballs helped to launch a nanotechnology revolution. In recent years, researchers from Brown University and elsewhere have shown that boron, carbon...
Jun 25, 2020
Graphene Nanoribbons might soon be much easier to produce. An international research team has succeeded in producing this versatile material for the first time directly on the surface of semiconductors. Until now, this was only possible on metal s...
Jun 25, 2020
A newly discovered nanocluster has a geometry that ''has not been observed in chemistry heretofore,'' the researchers say.
Jun 25, 2020
Led by the Ikerbasque professor Luis Liz-Marzán, researchers at the Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials CIC biomaGUNE have developed a mechanism by which gold atoms are deposited by means of chemical reduction onto previously formed go...
Jun 25, 2020
Graphene nanoribbons might soon be much easier to produce. An international research team led by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S. has succeeded in producing ...
Jun 25, 2020
Researchers deposit gold atoms onto gold nanorods in a practically helicoidal structure.
Jun 25, 2020
