ICN2 researchers, in the framework of the Graphene Flagship, demonstrate that spin currents can be generated and manipulated in graphene-based heterostructures at room temperature. The results of this...
Jan 11, 2020
Inspired by membranes in the body tissues of living organisms, scientists have combined aramid nanofibers used in Kevlar with boron nitride to construct a membrane... The post Harvesting Ocean Energy: Bio-Inspired Membrane Efficiently Produces El...
Jan 10, 2020
Graphene-based heterostructures of the van der Waals class could be used to design ultra-compact and low-energy electronic devices and magnetic memories. This is what a paper published in the latest...
Jan 10, 2020
Rice University engineers have created a light-powered nanoparticle that could shrink the carbon footprint of a major segment of the chemical industry.
Jan 10, 2020
Curtis Menyuk, professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), has collaborated with a team directed by Philip Russell at the Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPI) in E...
Jan 10, 2020
Engineers have created a light-powered nanoparticle that could shrink the carbon footprint of syngas producers.
Jan 10, 2020
An approach usually employed in astrophysics has been scaled down to the quantum realm The post Multi-modal nanoprobes reveal hidden magnetism appeared first on Physics World.
Jan 10, 2020
A functional quantum computer is one of the most intriguing promises of quantum technology. With significantly increased computing power, quantum computers will be able to solve tasks that conventional computers cannot handle, such as understandin...
Jan 10, 2020
A team headed by Professor Frank Stienkemeier at Freiburg’s Institute of Physics and Dr. Marcel Mudrich, professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, has observed the ultrafast reaction of nanodroplets of helium after excitation with extreme...
Jan 10, 2020
Nanopipettes, in which a nanoscale channel is filled with a solution, are used in all kinds of nanotechnology applications, including scanning-probe microscopy. Bringing a solution into a nanopipette with a pore diameter below 10 nanometer is cha...
Jan 10, 2020
