Boron nitride nanotubes truly like to stick together. They would remain stuck if they weren’t very useful. But since they are beneficial, Rice University chemists have established that...
Dec 21, 2018
Researchers have created a graphene-based terahertz detector. Their device doubles as a sensitive detector and a spectrometer operating in the terahertz range, and it?s also a tool for studying plasmons in two-dimensional materials. All of these t...
Dec 21, 2018
Coming up with potent anti-cancer drugs is one thing, delivering them to the site of a tumor inside the body is very much another. With a complicated organism guarded by a highly evolved immune system to navigate, getting these particles t...
Dec 21, 2018
Scientists from Russia and China discovered a host of new and unexpected nanoparticles and found a way to control their composition and properties the findings that break fresh ground in the use of nanoparticles.
Dec 21, 2018
A team of researchers from Russia, Great Britain, Japan, and Italy has created a graphene-based terahertz detector. Their device doubles up as a sensitive detector and a spectrometer operating in the terahertz range, and it's also a tool for ...
Dec 21, 2018
Brown University researchers have discovered a new type of quasicrystal, a class of materials whose existence was thought to be impossible until the 1980s.
Dec 20, 2018
The strange class of materials known as quasicrystals has a new member. In a paper published on Thursday, Dec. 20, in Science, researchers from Brown University describe a quasicrystalline superlattice that self-assembles from a single type of nan...
Dec 20, 2018
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved the final version of the National Quantum Initiative (NQI) Act, H.R. 6227. The Senate passed the legislation last week, and the bill will now head to President Trump for his signature. The National Ph...
Dec 20, 2018
Researchers discovered a new way to get more energy out of energetic materials containing aluminum, common in battlefield systems, by igniting aluminum micron powders coated with graphene oxide.
Dec 20, 2018
The technology could be used to develop more sophisticated nanomachines with reconfigurable parts.
Dec 20, 2018
