The Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences has awarded Rice University experimental physicist Ming Yi a five-year grant to explore the details of magnetism in two-dimensional...
Jun 24, 2020
A new nanomaterials microscopy approach called Pulsed Force Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (PF-KPFM), allows for less than 10 nanometer measurements of work function and surface potential in a single-pass AFM scan. The findings have been published ...
Jun 24, 2020
Scientists working at the Department for Functional Nanomaterials at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences designed and synthesized a functional ternary Pt/Re/SnO2/C catalyst as an anode material in a direct ethanol fu...
Jun 24, 2020
A summer internship in Bilbao, Spain, has led to a paper in the journal Physical Review Letters for Jack Mayo, a Master's student at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has helped to create a universal model that can predict the ...
Jun 24, 2020
Quantum teleportation is an important step in improving quantum computing. “Beam me up” is one of the most famous catchphrases from the Star Trek series.... The post Teleportation Is Indeed Possible – At Least in the Quantum World appeared first ...
Jun 23, 2020
To the general public, lasers heat objects. And generally, that would be correct. But lasers also show promise to do quite the opposite — to... The post Solid-State Laser Refrigeration of Nanoscale Sensors Achieved – Could Revolutionize Bio-Imagi...
Jun 23, 2020
Researchers have developed a high-precision technology that enables them to carve nanometric patterns into two-dimensional materials.
Jun 23, 2020
EPFL researchers have developed a high-precision technology that enables them to carve nanometric patterns into two-dimensional materials.
Jun 23, 2020
Rice University engineers have created a light-powered catalyst that can break the strong chemical bonds in fluorocarbons, a group of synthetic materials that includes persistent environmental polluta...
Jun 23, 2020
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has conducted an analysis of the system-wide costs and benefits of using engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) on crop-based agriculture. In their paper published in the journal Natu...
Jun 23, 2020
