Plant-based cellulose nanocrystals have remarkable inherent properties, and when combined with water, a powerful adhesive is formed that competes in strength with Superglue, without the need for toxic solvents.
Feb 24, 2020
Researchers are investigating light-emitting defects in materials that may someday form the basis of quantum-based technologies, such as quantum computers, quantum networks or engines that run on light. Once understood, these defects can become co...
Feb 24, 2020
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have developed a way to retrofit the transmission electron microscope -- a long-standing scientific workhorse for making crisp microscopic images -- s...
Feb 24, 2020
For the first time, researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have recorded a '3D film' of magnetic processes on the nanometer scale. This reveals a variety of dynamics inside the material, including the motion of swirling boundarie...
Feb 24, 2020
Modern anticancer therapies aim to attack tumor cells while sparing healthy tissue. A team of researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and FU Berlin has now produced tiny nanoparticles that are designed to specifically target can...
Feb 24, 2020
A Columbia University team, led by Michal Lipson, Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, announced that they have discovered a new way to control the phase of light using 2D mat...
Feb 24, 2020
Metals get stronger as the size of the grains making up the metal get smaller -- up to a point. If the grains are smaller than 10 nanometers in diameter the materials are weaker because, it was thought, they slide past each other like sand sliding...
Feb 24, 2020
Scientists have developed a three-dimensional imaging technique to observe complex behaviours in magnets, including fast-moving waves and 'tornadoes' thousands of times thinner than a human hair.
Feb 24, 2020
Researchers at ETH have measured the timing of single writing events in a novel magnetic memory device with a resolution of less than 100 picoseconds.... The post Next Generation Magnetic Memory Breakthrough: Writing Data in Under a Nanosecond app...
Feb 23, 2020
Imagine transistors 2 nanometres wide.
Feb 23, 2020
