Silicon photonics are known as a key technology for modern optical communications at the near infrared wavelength-band, i.e., 1.31/1.55 μm. Currently silicon photonics researchers have attempted to extend the technology to the wavelength-band beyo...
Mar 13, 2020
A team at Duke University is studying butterflies with wings that are 10 to 100 times darker than everyday black objects. As little as 0.06% of the light that hits the ultrablack butterfly wings is reflected back to the eye. This percentage is c...
Mar 13, 2020
One of the characteristics of Alzheimer's disease is the presence of knot-like structures between brain cells. These are called "amyloid fibrils" and are formed by the notorious amyloid beta peptide a...
Mar 13, 2020
A novel technology, capable of analyzing nanomaterials in our daily lives with the use of common 'salt' has been developed. This allows various molecules to amplify—up to hundreds of times—the signals they produce in response to light, t...
Mar 13, 2020
Ten years after producing the first sample of the now widely studied family of nanomaterials, called MXenes, researchers have discovered a different way to make the atom-thin material that presents a number of new opportunities for using it. The n...
Mar 13, 2020
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 tackle these ch...
Mar 13, 2020
Researchers at ETH have produced a gel from cellulose fibers and biodegradable nanoparticles that liquefies when pressed through
Mar 13, 2020
Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Translational Atomaterials have developed a highly efficient solar absorbing film that absorbs sunlight with minimal heat loss and rapidly heats up to 83°C in an open environment.
Mar 13, 2020
Nanoengineers offer a research roadmap that includes four challenges that need to be addressed in order to advance a promising class of batteries - all-solid-state batteries - to commercialization.
Mar 13, 2020
KAIST researchers developed a three-dimensional (3-D) 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. This...
Mar 13, 2020
