Applied Graphene Materials recently announced it has achieved significant technological progress (patent pending) on the deployment of graphene into water-based coatings to enhance their barrier...
Jul 23, 2019
All life is cellular, but the origins of cellularity remain unknown. Scientists at the Earth-Life Science Institute have discovered that simple organic compounds like glycolic and lactic acid polymerize and self-assemble into cell-sized droplets w...
Jul 23, 2019
IBS researchers and colleagues have reported a novel phenomenon, called Valley Acoustoelectric Effect, which takes place in 2D materials, similar to graphene. This research is published in Physical Review Letters and brings new insights to the st...
Jul 23, 2019
Polarisable microrobots components can be designed to find each other in an electric field.
Jul 23, 2019
A team of chemists at Kiel University (Germany) built the first artificial assembler, which uses light as the energy source. These molecular machines are performing synthesis in a similar way as biological nanomachines. Advantages are fewer side p...
Jul 23, 2019
An international research team has studied how photons travel in the plane of the world's thinnest semiconductor crystal. The results of the physicists' work open the way to the creation of monoatomic optical transistors -- components fo...
Jul 23, 2019
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a graphene device that's thinner than a human hair but has a depth of special traits...
Jul 22, 2019
Nanocarbon’s remarkable electronic qualities originate from its atomic and molecular properties The post Why carbon is an amazing material – part two appeared first on Physics World.
Jul 22, 2019
The interaction between graphene and light suggests that graphene could be used to control infrared (IR) and terahertz (THz) waves. Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University of Manchester have demonstrated an efficient w...
Jul 22, 2019
Scientists precisely manipulated the ion’s oscillations and energy levels, a key step toward building better quantum computers.
Jul 22, 2019
