Physicists from the University of Sheffield have discovered that when two atomically thin graphene-like materials are placed on top of each other their properties change, and a material with novel hybrid properties emerges, paving the way for des...
Mar 13, 2019
The material is a quaternary nanocrystalline tungsten-tantalum-vanadium-chromium alloy that has been characterized under extreme thermal conditions. Pacific Northwest
Mar 13, 2019
Today, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, energy, and digital technologies and KU Leuven, both partners in EnergyVille, present a novel nanomesh material that could...
Mar 13, 2019
“One of the most important characteristics for bicycle rims is impact resistance. In recent tests of TUBALL graphene nanotubes, we have shown that we can improve this by more than 15% by evenly...
Mar 13, 2019
Cleaning pollutants from water with a defective filter sounds like a non-starter, but a recent study by chemical engineers at Rice University found that the right-sized defects helped a molecular sieve soak up more perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PF...
Mar 13, 2019
Nanostructures made of carbon are extremely versatile: they can absorb ions in batteries and supercapacitors, store gases, and desalinate water. How well they cope with the task at hand depends largely on the structural features of the nanopores. ...
Mar 13, 2019
International research team developed a new method of synthesizing miniature light sources. It is based on a special laser producing millions of nanolasers from a perovskite film in a few minutes. Such lasers look like small disks, work at room te...
Mar 13, 2019
Researchers from the Russia teamed up with colleagues from the US and Switzerland and returned the state of a quantum computer a fraction of a second into the past. They also calculated the probability that an electron in empty interstellar space ...
Mar 13, 2019
U of T Engineering researchers have built a set of magnetic 'tweezers' that can position a nano-scale bead inside a human cell with unprecedented precision. The nano-bot has already been used to study the properties of cancer cells, and ...
Mar 13, 2019
A new NSF grant will support a five-year project to develop a unique system of microscale self-propelled particles (SPPs) that will enable them to control the movement and interaction of colloidal SPPs (moving microparticles suspended in a liquid)...
Mar 12, 2019
