In a world-first, an international research team, led by Monash University and ANSTO, has created an ultrathin porous membrane to completely separate potentially harmful ions, such as lead and...
Jun 9, 2020
Rice University scientists have developed an easy and affordable tool to count and characterize nanoparticles. The Rice labs of chemists Christy Landes and Stephan Link created an open-source program...
Jun 9, 2020
In line with the depletion of fossil fuels and the environmental problems our planet faces due to their combustion, developing technology for clean energy generation is a topic of global interest....
Jun 9, 2020
A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory synthesized a tiny structure with high surface area and discovered how its unique architecture drives ions across interfaces...
Jun 9, 2020
Researchers have been able to experimentally confirm a plasmonic nanojet effect previously forecast in practice. In the future, the effect of plasmon compression can make optical electronics competitive and boost the creation of an optical compute...
Jun 9, 2020
Researchers have demonstrated that new distance-based machine learning methods are capable of predicting structures and atomic dynamics of nanoparticles reliably. The new methods are significantly faster than traditional simulation methods used fo...
Jun 9, 2020
Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors or CNFETs can now be made 1100 times faster so significant commercialization will finally happen. CNFETs are more energy-efficient than silicon field-effect transistors and could be used to build new types ...
Jun 9, 2020
Amsterdam, June 9, 2020 - Solar energy is considered by some to be the ultimate solution to address the current energy crisis and global warming and the environmental crises brought about by excessive consumption of fossil fuels. However, this cle...
Jun 9, 2020
Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, are attempting to convert carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, to fuel using energy from sunlight. Recent results have shown that it is possible to use their technique to selectively produce methane, carbo...
Jun 9, 2020
For more than 200 years, we have been using X-rays to look inside matter, and progressing to ever smaller structures -from crystals to nanoparticles. Now, within the framework of a larger international collaboration on the X-ray laser European XFE...
Jun 9, 2020
