In the world of materials science, sometimes main discoveries can be found in unexpected places. While working on the resistivity of a type of delafossite—PdCoO2—researchers at EPFL's Laboratory of Quantum Materials discovered that the electr...
Jun 12, 2020
Professor Junichiro Shiomi et al. from the University of Tokyo aimed to reduce the thermal conductivity of semiconductor materials by reducing the internal nanostructure. The researchers successfully minimized thermal conductivity by designing, fa...
Jun 12, 2020
Scientists have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with gamma-modified peptide nucleic acid, a synthetic mimic of DNA. The process has the potential to impact nanomanufacturing as well as future biomedical technologies like targ...
Jun 12, 2020
With a surprisingly simple approach in which cancer cells are first grown, ruptured and converted into nanoparticles, and
Jun 12, 2020
Researchers successfully minimized thermal conductivity by designing, fabricating, and evaluating the optimal nanostructure-multilayer materials through materials informatics, which combines machine learning and molecular simulation.
Jun 12, 2020
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with gamma-modified peptide nucleic acid (γPNA), a synthetic mimic of DNA. The process has the potential to impact nanomanufacturing as well as fu...
Jun 12, 2020
An international scientific team led by researchers at ITMO University demonstrated experimentally what it believes to be the world’s most compact semiconductor laser operating in the visible range at room temperature. The nanolaser produces green...
Jun 12, 2020
Researchers from Russia and the US teamed up to find a way to break, or at least bend, one of physics' most fundamental laws of energy.
Jun 12, 2020
NUS Chemists have developed a new type of molecular computing device that acts both as a switch and storage element for nanoelectronic applications. The figure shows the molecular junction with...
Jun 12, 2020
In the future, camera lenses could be thousands of times thinner and significantly less resource-intensive to manufacture. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, now present a new technology for making the artificial materials...
Jun 12, 2020
