A plasma tears through the water within a few nanoseconds. It may possibly regenerate catalytic surfaces at the push of a button. Electrochemical cells help recycle CO2. However, the catalytic surfaces get worn down in the process. Researchers at...
Jul 1, 2019
A new form of electron microscopy allows researchers to examine nanoscale tubular materials while they are "alive" and forming liquids -- a first in the field. Developed by a multidisciplinary team at Northwestern University and the Uni...
Jul 1, 2019
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have grown atomically thin crystalline layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) with varying composition over space, continuously feeding in different types of TMDC to a growth chamber to ta...
Jul 1, 2019
A drug with three active ingredients that are released in sequence at specific times is under development by a team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). What was once a pharmacologist's dream is now much closer to reality. With a comb...
Jul 1, 2019
Iowa State's Jigang Wang and a team of collaborators have discovered that terahertz light -- light at trillions of cycles per second -- can act as a control knob to accelerate supercurrents. That can help open up the quantum world of matter a...
Jul 1, 2019
Researchers from Brown and Columbia Universities have demonstrated previously unknown states of matter that arise in double-layer stacks
Jun 30, 2019
Researchers have demonstrated resonant absorption of terahertz radiation in commercially available graphene. This is an important step toward designing efficient terahertz detectors, which would enable faster internet and a safe replacement for X-...
Jun 30, 2019
New optical effect could manipulate molecules and nanostructures The post Twisted light gains angular momentum through ‘self-torque’ appeared first on Physics World.
Jun 29, 2019
Researchers at Oregon State University have developed an improved technique for using magnetic nanoclusters to kill hard-to-reach tumors.
Jun 29, 2019
XG Sciences, Inc. (“XGS”) has announced that it has entered a memorandum of understanding to participate in developing advanced composites in China based on its xGnP® graphene...
Jun 29, 2019
