Researchers at MIT have found that baking soda, table salt, and detergent are surprisingly effective ingredients for cooking up carbon nanotubes....
Jun 11, 2019
The method provides manufacturers with a practical way to measure and improve their control of the properties of magnetic nanoparticles for a host of medical and environmental applications.
Jun 10, 2019
The EU has a one billion euro ten-year project to develop Quantum technologies. The EU has a long-term plan for a Quantum Web. A Quantum Web would have Quantum computers, simulators and sensors interconnected via quantum networks distributing info...
Jun 10, 2019
Graphene has a lot of potential because it can be the strongest material and has many other exceptional characteristics. There has been a lot of research around the material since 2004, when Professor Sir Andre Geim and Professor Sir Kostya Novose...
Jun 10, 2019
After unveiling its first 7-nanometer "Navi" GPUs a few weeks ago at Computex, the Radeon RX 5000 series, AMD finally gave us more details at E3. Its first cards from the new "RDNA" family will be the $449 Radeon RX 57...
Jun 10, 2019
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have developed a method to isolate thin layers of tungsten diselenide (WSe2) — a 2D material — from crystals, to allow layers of WSe2 to be stacked on top of other atomically thin materials suc...
Jun 10, 2019
New biomimetic super-elastic, lightweight carbon-tube-based material is based on a hollow hair microstructure The post Polar bears inspire insulating aerogel appeared first on Physics World.
Jun 10, 2019
A team led by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) explored how 2D crystals grow over 3D objects and how the curvature of 3D objects can stretch and strain the 2D crystals. The team’s findings could lead to a strategy for engineering strain du...
Jun 10, 2019
Tiny rod-like structures minimize Raleigh scattering The post Nanocrystals give dragonfish their transparent teeth appeared first on Physics World.
Jun 10, 2019
Metal-free antennas made of thin, strong, flexible carbon nanotube films are as efficient as common copper antennas, according to researchers.
Jun 10, 2019
