Pollutants coming out of cars' exhausts are harmful to the environment and public health. With the goal of overall curbing car emissions, the US Department of Energy (DOE) issued a challenge to scientists worldwide: catalytically converting 9...
Aug 5, 2019
Researchers have developed the first fully functional biofuel cell whose biocatalysts (enzymes that play a critical role in power generation) directly self-assemble onto the electrodes. In about 5 minutes, enzyme-nanoparticle hybrids added to a bi...
Aug 5, 2019
Carbon nanotubes able to take on the desired shapes thanks to a special chemical treatment, called crosslinking and, at the same time, able to function as substrata for the growth of nerve cells, finely tuning their growth and activity. The resear...
Aug 5, 2019
A KAIST team has designed a novel strategy for synthesizing single-crystalline graphene quantum dots, which emit stable blue light. The research team confirmed that a display made of their synthesized graphene quantum dots successfully emitted blu...
Aug 5, 2019
Overlaying two mesh screens causes beautiful patterns to develop when one screen is offset. These “moiré patterns” have fascinated artists, researchers, and mathematicians for a long...
Aug 5, 2019
Researchers from Russia and Japan have discovered a way to stabilize two-dimensional (2D) copper oxide (CuO) materials using graphene. Apart from being the chief candidates for spintronics...
Aug 5, 2019
When photons can be used to transmit information at the speed of light, quantum light sources, connected with quantum fiber optic cables and detectors, will be a requirement. An international team led by physicists at the Technical University of M...
Aug 5, 2019
The nanotechnology is a very important field of science. But it is not an entirely new science. Did
Aug 3, 2019
Now, scientists have designed reusable nano-sized reactors called nanocoils that can trigger microplastic breakdown. The work, published Wednesday in the journal Matter, could someday be applied t...
Aug 3, 2019
An experiment that combines a superconducting qubit with a piezoelectric resonator can detect multiple phonons at the same time The post Quantum microphone detects the presence of phonons appeared first on Physics World.
Aug 3, 2019
