Noble metal aerogels (NMAs) are an emerging class of porous materials embracing nano-sized highly-active noble metals and porous structures, displaying unprecedented performance in diverse electrocatalytic processes. However, various impurities, ...
Mar 27, 2020
Rice University theorists find that flexoelectric effects in double-walled carbon nanotubes could be highly useful for photovoltaic applications.
Mar 27, 2020
Harvard and MIT researchers have found a way to correct for signal loss in quantum computing with a prototype quantum node that can catch, store, and entangle bits of quantum information. A quantum internet could be used to send unhackable message...
Mar 26, 2020
Researchers in the cancer nanomedicine community debate whether use nanoparticles can best deliver drug therapy to tumors passively. Now, new research on human and mouse tumors in mice suggests the question is even more complicated.
Mar 26, 2020
Engineers wonder whether this tried and true precious metal, found in the bowels of most electronic devices, can stand up to the strain of next-generation data processing.
Mar 26, 2020
New device could find use in digital processors that operate in harsh conditions and require electronics with integrated data storage The post Non-volatile nano-relay breaks records appeared first on Physics World.
Mar 26, 2020
EPFL scientists have created a new nanodevice that works around 100 times faster than the transistors used in computers, and over 10 times faster than that of existing fastest transistors. The...
Mar 26, 2020
Deep inside computer chips, tiny wires made of gold and other conductive metals carry the electricity used to process data.
Mar 26, 2020
UBA and RIVM point to uncertainties with environmental tests
Mar 26, 2020
Nanostructured layers boast countless potential properties—but how can the most suitable one be identified without any long-term experiments? A team from the Materials Discovery Department at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) has ventured a shortcut: ...
Mar 26, 2020
