The first hours of a lithium-ion battery's life largely determine just how well it will perform. In those moments, a set of molecules self-assembles into a structure inside the battery that will affect the battery for years to come. Now scien...
Feb 5, 2020
A team of Australian scientists has discovered diamond can be bent and deformed, at the nanoscale at least. The discovery opens up a range of possibilities for the design and engineering of new nanoscale devices in sensing, defence and energy stor...
Feb 5, 2020
That’s never been a focus of the Harvard University nanoscientist’s work
Feb 4, 2020
Researchers use powerful femto-second laser pulses to etch metal surfaces with nanoscale structures that selectively absorb light only at the solar wavelengths, but not elsewhere.
Feb 4, 2020
Spintronic devices, which use electron spin to process data, are emerging at the forefront of semiconductor applications. Staying
Feb 4, 2020
Leti, an institute of CEA-Tech, has developed a silicon nitride (Si3N4) 200mm platform for developing ultralow loss, high-power photonics in UV through mid-infrared wavelengths. Available in CEA-Leti...
Feb 4, 2020
Researchers engineer tiny particles with sugar molecules to prevent side effect in cancer therapy.
Feb 4, 2020
In the past decade nanomedicine has contributed to better detection and treatment of cancer. Nanoparticles are hundreds of times smaller than the smallest grain of sand and can therefore easily travel in the blood stream to reach the tumor. Howeve...
Feb 4, 2020
With an advanced X-ray combination technique, scientists have traced nanocarriers for tuberculosis drugs within cells with very high precision. The method combines two sophisticated scanning X-ray measurements and can locate minute amounts of vari...
Feb 4, 2020
A RUDN chemist has synthesized an electrocatalyst based on gold nanoparticles with organic ligands that can trigger both hydrogen production reactions and oxygen reduction reactions in fuel cells. The yield of products with the new catalyst was tw...
Feb 4, 2020
