Inside all of us are trillions of tiny molecular nanomachines that perform a variety of tasks necessary to keep us alive.
May 25, 2019
University of Toronto Engineering researchers have combined two emerging technologies for next-generation solar power -- and discovered that each one helps stabilize the other. The resulting hybrid ma...
May 25, 2019
Metallic nanoparticle ensembles are capable of emitting short bunches of electrons when irradiated by powerful laser pulses of femtosecond (1 fs = 10-15 s) duration. Scientists at Lobachevsky Universi...
May 24, 2019
Anna Demming argues that carbon plays a fundamental role in everything from disruptive nanotechnologies to the chemistry of life The post Battle of the elements: What makes carbon King of the Elements? appeared first on Physics World.
May 24, 2019
An international research group has improved graphene's ability to catalyze the 'hydrogen evolution reaction,' which releases hydrogen as a result of passing an electronic current through water. They designed a mathematically predic...
May 24, 2019
An international research group has improved graphene's ability to catalyse the 'hydrogen evolution reaction', which releases hydrogen as a result of passing an electronic current through water.
May 24, 2019
An international research group has improved graphene's ability to catalyse the hydrogen evolution reaction, which releases hydrogen as a result of passing an electronic current through water. They designed a mathematically-predicted graphene...
May 24, 2019
Researchers at Delft University of Technology have recently carried out a study investigating spin-orbit interaction in Majorana nanowires. Their study, published in Physical Review Letters, is the first to clearly show the mechanism that enables ...
May 24, 2019
Surgical medical meshes were invented about five decades ago and since then have become important elements in the recovery processes of damaged-tissue surgeries, with hernia repair being the most...
May 24, 2019
A technique to stabilize alkali metal vapor density using gold nanoparticles, so electrons can be accessed for applications including quantum computing, atom cooling and precision measurements, has now been patented.
May 24, 2019