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Measurement of semiconductor material quality is now 100,000 times more sensitive

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

The enhanced power of the new measuring technique to characterize materials at scales much smaller than any current technologies will accelerate the discovery and investigation of 2D, micro- and nanoscale materials. Being able to accurately measu...

Apr 11, 2019

Measurement of semiconductor material quality is now 100,000 times more sensitive

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

The enhanced power of the new measuring technique to characterize materials at scales much smaller than any current technologies will accelerate the discovery and investigation of 2D, micro- and nanoscale materials. Being able to accurately measu...

Apr 11, 2019

World’s First Individual 2D Phosphorene Nanoribbons Could Revolutionize Electronics

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In 2014, following the isolation of two-dimensional phosphorene, which is the phosphorus equal of graphene, over 100 theoretical studies have projected that new and stimulating properties could...

Apr 11, 2019

'Nanobodies' from alpacas could help bring CAR T-cell therapy to solid tumors

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Most CAR T-cell therapies look for antigens specific to cancer cells. A new approach described in this week's PNAS instead targets the environment around the tumor, using unusually small antibodies made naturally by alpacas, camels and llamas...

Apr 11, 2019

New microscopy method provides more details about nanocomposites

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have developed a new microscopy approach for imaging gel nanocomposites in their natural state, which will reveal more useful information about their assembly and properties.

Apr 11, 2019

Rice, Northwestern find new ways to image, characterize unique material

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at Rice and Northwestern have imaged and modeled the unique geometry of 2D borophene, a material that could surpass the promises of graphene for electronic, thermal, optical and other applications.

Apr 11, 2019

Oregon scientists drill into white graphene to create artificial atoms

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

By drilling holes into a thin two-dimensional sheet of hexagonal boron nitride with a gallium-focused ion beam, University of Oregon scientists have created artificial atoms that generate single photons, which work in air and room temperature.

Apr 11, 2019

2D gold quantum dots are atomically tunable with nanotubes

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Gold atoms ski along boron nitride nanotubes and stabilize in metallic monolayers. The resulting gold quantum dots could be a promising material for future electronics and quantum computing.

Apr 11, 2019

New tunable nanomaterials possible due to flexible process invented by Bath physicists

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Physicists at the University of Bath have developed a flexible process allowing the synthesis in a single flow of a wide range of novel nanomaterials with various morphologies, with potential applications in areas including optics and sensors.

Apr 11, 2019

Wonder material: Individual 2D phosphorene nanoribbons made for the first time

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Tiny, individual, flexible ribbons of crystalline phosphorus have been made in a world first, and they could revolutionize electronics and fast-charging battery technology. Since the isolation of 2-dimensional phosphorene, which is the phosphorus ...

Apr 10, 2019

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