A low-cost nanomaterial created at KAUST could be used to recapture some of the enormous amounts of waste heat that devices and machines emit. This thermoelectric nanomaterial could capture the heat...
Jun 28, 2019
AIXTRON, Graphene Flagship’s partner, announced the outcomes of two of its systems that facilitate the large-scale synthesis of graphene through chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The neutron...
Jun 28, 2019
Nanowires promise to make LEDs more colorful and solar cells more efficient, in addition to speeding up computers. That is, provided that the tiny semiconductors convert electric energy into light, and vice versa, at the right wavelengths. A rese...
Jun 28, 2019
With a combination of hydrogels and artificial DNA, nanoparticles can be released in sequence under conditions similar to those in the human body.
Jun 28, 2019
Researchers have developed a reliable method for analyzing the reduction of graphene oxide microregions. In contrast to earlier proposed methods based on Raman spectroscopy, this advanced method provides more exact data about unique properties of ...
Jun 28, 2019
Scientists are exploring all kinds of ways to improve cancer treatments, with some methods more tried-and-true and others at the experimental end of the spectrum. Using magnetism to heat up nanoparticles inside a tumor to destroy nearby can...
Jun 28, 2019
A joint team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is getting closer to confirming the existence of an exotic quantum particle called Majorana fermion, crucial for fault-tolerant qu...
Jun 28, 2019
Scientists at Harvard have developed a superconductor that is only one nanometer thick. By studying fluctuations in this ultra-thin material as it transitions into superconductivity, the scientists gained insight into the processes that drive supe...
Jun 28, 2019
How fast can a magnet switch its orientation and what are the microscopic mechanisms at play ? These questions are of first importance for the development of data storage and computer chips. Now, an HZB team at BESSY II has for the first time been...
Jun 28, 2019
A drug with three active ingredients that are released in sequence at specific times: Thanks to the work of a team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), what was once a pharmacologist's dream is now much closer to reality. With a combi...
Jun 28, 2019
