SPIE Optics + Photonics 2019, scheduled for Aug. 11-15 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif., is North America’s largest international and multidisciplinary optical science and technology meeting. Hosted by SPIE, the internationa...
Aug 1, 2019
Researchers have developed an environmentally friendly technique to remove these contaminants from water The post Magnetic nanosprings break down microplastic pollutants appeared first on Physics World.
Aug 1, 2019
This week’s podcast focuses on the intertwining of physics and industry, and discusses the latest findings in the emerging field of twistronics The post Nanotechnology for quantum computers, industry skills for physics students, technologies that ...
Aug 1, 2019
In recent decades, enormous research efforts have been expended on the exploration and explanation of high-temperature (high-Tc) superconductors, a class of materials exhibiting zero resistance at particularly high temperatures. Now a team of scie...
Aug 1, 2019
The renewable, eco-friendly, and sustainable characteristics of high-performance biomass-based nanocomposites have helped them emerge as potential materials for future structural and functional...
Aug 1, 2019
Bacteria have the ability to dynamically move toward a nutrient source—a phenomenon called chemotaxis—and they can move together through a process called swarming. Chinese researchers...
Aug 1, 2019
A new study into better understanding how tiny, yet powerful, bubbles develop and collapse on underwater surfaces could enable the development of more robust industrial structures like ship...
Aug 1, 2019
Selective catalysis plays a key role in various applications, such as the chemical industry and oil refining, hence, developing catalysts with high efficiency and excellent chemoselectivity has become a research hotspot. Compared with other materi...
Aug 1, 2019
An international team headed up by Alexander Holleitner and Jonathan Finley, physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has succeeded in placing light sources in atomically thin material layers with an accuracy of just a few nanometer...
Aug 1, 2019
Engineers use a single enzyme biomineralization process to create a solar-driven water splitting catalyst that produces hydrogen with the potential to be manufactured sustainably, cheaply and abundantly.
Aug 1, 2019
