There are super-technologies which are emerging that will define the 21st century. The highest potential super-technologies are ones which will enhance intelligence and human control of the material world at molecular and other levels. The super-t...
Jul 8, 2019
By using the wave nature of heat in holey nanostructures heat conduction can be reduced by over hundredfold.
Jul 8, 2019
The general public knows the chemical compound of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and because of its global-warming effect. However, carbon dioxide can also be a useful raw material for chemical reactions. A working group has ...
Jul 8, 2019
If scientists could find a way to control the process for making semiconductor components on a nanometric scale, they could give those components unique electronic and optical properties—opening the door to a host of useful applications.
Jul 8, 2019
Researchers have discovered a way of making semiconducting, photoluminescent nanotubes form spontaneously in liquid solutions. The tubes, which consist of several walls that are perfectly uniform and just a few atoms thick, display optical propert...
Jul 8, 2019
Researchers have found a way to manipulate a soliton on a silicon chip at both the source and reception end of an optical fiber without altering the wave shape. They used a Bragg gated structure on a silicon substrate. The discovery, which is the ...
Jul 8, 2019
Researchers have discovered 'greener' nanocrystals that can be manipulated to produce high-quality pictures and lighting in electronic devices such as televisions.
Jul 8, 2019
The fabrication of electronic devices from exfoliated 2-D materials can be tricky. The group of Daniel Granados at IMDEA Nanociencia has engineered a solution that consists of the after-fabrication tailoring of MoS2-FET transistors using pulsed-fo...
Jul 8, 2019
Scientists chemically treated the surface of wire-looking nanostructures made of zinc oxide to apply a uniform coating of titanium dioxide; these semiconducting nanowires could be used as high-activity catalysts for solar fuel production.
Jul 8, 2019
A team at the University of Tsukuba introduced a new procedure of harvesting energy and organic molecules from algae using nanoporous graphene and porous graphene foams. By developing a reusable system that can evaporate water at high rate without...
Jul 8, 2019
