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Twisting 2D materials uncovers their superpowers

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers can now grow twistronic material at sizes large enough to be useful. While an exciting potential area of nanotechnology, twistronics until now has mostly been explored on samples smaller than human hairs. Now researchers can produce sa...

May 1, 2020

News story: New study reveals unexpected softness of bilayer graphene

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In the study, published in the journal Physical Review B, the researchers showed that bilayer graphene, consisting of two layers of graphene, was noticeably softer than both two-dimensional (2-D) graphene and three-dimensional (3-D) graphite along...

May 1, 2020

Twisting 2-D materials uncover their superpowers

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Two-dimensional (2-D) materials, which consist of a single layer of atoms, have attracted a lot of attention since the isolation of graphene in 2004. They have unique electrical, optical, and mechanical properties, like high conductivity, flexibil...

May 1, 2020

A flexible piezoresistive pressure sensor with zero standby power consumption

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

This work showed a new way to fabricate flexible graphene-based pressure sensors with comprehensive performance via a low-cost process.

May 1, 2020

Army researchers see path to quantum computing at room temperature

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Army researchers predict quantum computer circuits that will no longer need extremely cold temperatures to function could become a reality after about a decade.

May 1, 2020

Nanostimulators boost stem cells for muscle repair

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

In regenerative medicine, an ideal treatment for patients whose muscles are damaged from lack of oxygen would be to invigorate them with an injection of their own stem cells.Illinois researchers demonstrated that 'nanostimulators' - -nan...

May 1, 2020

Twisting 2D materials uncovers their superpowers

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers can now grow twistronic material at sizes large enough to be useful. While an exciting potential area of nanotechnology, twistronics until now has mostly been explored on samples smaller than human hairs. Now a collaboration led by a g...

May 1, 2020

Sustainable structural material for plastic substitute

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

A team lead by Prof. Shu-Hong Yu from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) report a high-performance sustainable structural material called cellulose nanofiber plate (CNFP) which is constructed from bio-based CNF and ready to r...

May 1, 2020

Researchers Propose New Approach to Improve Efficiency of Nanomaterials' Modeling

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers from Higher School of Theoretical Mechanics of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) and Tel Aviv University proposed a new approach to improve the efficiency of...

Apr 30, 2020

New Nanoparticle-Based Imaging Technique Captures Mechanical Properties of Living Cells

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A first-of-its-kind nanoparticle-based in vivo imaging technique that may one day be used to help diagnose and even treat cancer has been developed by researchers collaborating from Michigan State,...

Apr 30, 2020

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