A new study describes how electrons in a single atomically-thin sheet of graphene scatter off the vibrating carbon atoms which make up the hexagonal crystal lattice.
Jul 26, 2019
The ancient art of paper folding known as origami is used to make intricate birds or other shapes. Inspired by the work of DNA origami, in which nanostructures are made from folding DNA, a team of engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at...
Jul 26, 2019
Chemical engineers have developed a new class of high-performance membranes for carbon capture that greatly exceed current targets.
Jul 26, 2019
Engineers find new way to create single-chain protein nanostructures using synthetic biology and protein-assembly techniques.
Jul 26, 2019
Sometimes the best discoveries happen when scientists least expect it. While trying to replicate another team's finding, Stanford physicists recently stumbled upon a novel form of magnetism, predicted but never seen before, that is generated ...
Jul 26, 2019
Physicists were stunned when two twisted sheets of graphene showed signs of superconductivity. Now scientists have shown that the material also generates a type of magnetism once only dreamed of theoretically.
Jul 26, 2019
The tiny rings that chemists at the Center for Nanointegration (CENIDE) at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) create in the laboratory are as small as a bacterium. Self-organized, individual polymer chains form the flexible structures that ca...
Jul 26, 2019
A new disruptive technology is on the horizon and it promises to take computing power to unprecedented and unimaginable heights.
Jul 26, 2019
As a flat sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a lattice, graphene is pretty simple, and yet it keeps surprising scientists with new properties. For the latest in this long line of breakthroughs, a team from Stanford has shown that graphene arranged ...
Jul 26, 2019
Fans of the Mission Impossible movies may recall the agents' use of a slim, throat-mounted device that changes the user's voice. Well, Chinese scientists have now developed something similar, that could one day allow the mute to s...
Jul 25, 2019
