Paragraf, a recent spin-out company of the University of Cambridge, has begun the manufacture of graphene—a sheet of carbon with a thickness of just one atomic layer—of up to 8 inches (20...
Mar 13, 2019
Scientists of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) together with Russian colleagues from ITMO University, researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas, and Australian National University have developed an efficient, fast and cheap way to ...
Mar 13, 2019
In everyday life, blinking lights can send signals—for example, that a car is going to turn. Now, researchers have engineered tiny "blinkers" that reveal single molecules of RNA or protein inside cells based on the duration and frequency...
Mar 13, 2019
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
