Strategy to bypass trade-off between thermoelectric voltage and conductivity.
Dec 2, 2019
Perovskite nanocrystals show potential for enhancing a broad range of optoelectronic devices, from light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to lasers. However, these materials are not extensively used at the...
Dec 2, 2019
They look like toothpicks, but much, much smaller: 10,000 times shorter and 1,000 times thinner. The research team around physicist Professor Eva Weig succeeded in constructing nanopillars so closely together that they can be coupled via the stra...
Dec 2, 2019
How a liquid interacts with the surface of a solid is important in batteries and fuel cells, chemical production, corrosion phenomena, and many biological processes.
Dec 2, 2019
Researchers have produced graphene by molten carbonate electrolytic splitting of CO2 to a nano-thin carbon product (carbon nanoplatelets) comprised of 25 to 125 graphene layers, and subsequent electrochemical exfoliation of the nanoplatelets to gr...
Dec 2, 2019
How a liquid interacts with the surface of a solid is important in batteries and fuel cells, chemical production, corrosion phenomena, and many biological processes.
Dec 2, 2019
Scientists at Aalto University, Finland, and Nagoya University, Japan, have found a new way to make ultra-clean carbon nanotube transistors with superior semiconducting properties. Single-wall... The post Ultra-Clean Carbon Nanotube Transistors Wi...
Dec 1, 2019
Scientists have removed an important obstacle to the practical use of nanooptical traps. Nanooptical traps are a promising building block for quantum technologies. Austrian and... The post Atoms Don’t Like Jumping Rope: Breakthrough in Using Nanoo...
Nov 30, 2019
Relatively small ion traps could be linked via photons The post Entanglement lights the way to scalable quantum computers appeared first on Physics World.
Nov 30, 2019
Growing nanoscale polymer brushes on materials' surfaces overcomes a key challenge in surface chemistry, researchers report, creating a new way to fabricate a diverse array of materials that could hol...
Nov 30, 2019
