Ten years after producing the first sample of the now widely studied family of nanomaterials, called MXenes, Drexel University researchers have discovered a different way to make the atom-thin material that presents a number of new opportunities f...
Mar 13, 2020
A Washington State University research team has found that nanoscale particles of the most commonly used plastics tend to move through the water supply, especially in fresh water, or settle out in wastewater treatment plants, where they end up as ...
Mar 13, 2020
Waveguide photodetectors beyond 1.55 μm are becoming very attractive for many applications. Recently, researchers from Zhejiang University and Southeast University in China proposed and realized high-performance silicon-graphene hybrid plasmonic w...
Mar 13, 2020
A recent study, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has introduced a novel technology, which allows carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to be easily observed under room temperature.
Mar 13, 2020
UC San Diego nanoengineers offer a research roadmap describing four challenges that need to be addressed in order to advance a promising class of batteries, all-solid-state batteries, to commercialization. The researchers describe their work to ta...
Mar 13, 2020
KAIST researchers developed a three-dimensional (3D) hierarchically porous nanostructured catalyst with carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO) conversion rate up to 3.96 times higher than that of conventional nanoporous gold catalysts.
Mar 13, 2020
When compared to steel, graphene can be approximately six times lighter and 200 times stronger. These properties have made it the most preferred material in the manufacturing sector. At the University...
Mar 12, 2020
In the future, quantum links will connect clusters of quantum computers to form a local network. These links will need to support quantum mechanical superposition states (states that contain the logical values 0 and 1 at the same time). The longes...
Mar 12, 2020
New imaging technique can visualize the dynamics of magnetic structures in three dimensions for the first time The post 3D nano-vortices come into view appeared first on Physics World.
Mar 12, 2020
It's not enough to take antibiotic-resistant bacteria out of wastewater to eliminate the risks they pose to society. The bits they leave behind have to be destroyed as well.
Mar 12, 2020
