Solar rays are a plentiful, clean source of energy that is becoming increasingly important as the world works to shift away from power sources that contribute to global warming. But current methods of...
Jan 25, 2019
IBM recently unveiled what it claimed was the world's first commercial quantum computer. While the announcement of the Q System One wasn't scientifically groundbreaking, the fact that IBM sees this as a commercial product that organisati...
Jan 25, 2019
Platinum, a noble metal, is oxidized more quickly than expected under conditions that are technologically relevant. Devices that contain platinum, such as the catalytic converters used to reduce exhaust emissions in cars, can suffer a loss in effi...
Jan 25, 2019
NUS Engineers have developed a cost-effective and scalable strategy for designing tiny semiconductor particles known as transition metal dichalcogenide quantum dots (TMD QDs) which can potentially generate cancer-killing properties. The team is al...
Jan 25, 2019
Researchers at Tokai University report in Nano Letters a systematic study on the effects that using different forms of titanium oxide in planar perovskite solar cells has on the performance of the devices.
Jan 25, 2019
Technologically important noble metal oxidises more readily than expected.
Jan 25, 2019
Solar rays are an abundant, clean source of energy that is becoming more and more important as the world strives to move away from power sources that lead to global warming. However, existing...
Jan 25, 2019
A Columbia University-led team has developed a new method to finely tune adjacent layers of graphene—lacy, honeycomb-like sheets of carbon atoms—to induce superconductivity. Above – Applying pressure to twisted bilayer graphene transforms the mate...
Jan 25, 2019
Two-dimensional (2-D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) nanomaterials such as molybdenite (MoS2), which possess a similar structure as graphene, have been donned the materials of the future for their wide range of potential applications in b...
Jan 25, 2019
A Northwestern University team is reshaping the world of graphene — literally. The team has turned graphene oxide
Jan 25, 2019
