Using a nanoparticle as a "tuning device," researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering have devised a way to control electromagnetically induced transparency -- a feature of light which allows it to pass through opaque media.
Jan 13, 2020
A new DNA-programmable nanofabrication platform organizes inorganic or biological nanocomponents in the same prescribed ways.
Jan 13, 2020
Rice University engineers have created a light-powered nanoparticle that could shrink the carbon footprint of a major segment of the chemical industry. The particle, tiny... The post Gasification Goes Green: Low-Temp Photocatalyst Slashes Carbon F...
Jan 12, 2020
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from KU Leuven, the University of Bremen, the Leibniz Institute of Materials Engineering, and the University of Ioannina has succeeded in killing tumour cells i...
Jan 11, 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 11, 2020
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
