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New property revealed in graphene could lead to better performing solar panels

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An international research team, co-led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has discovered a new mechanism for ultra-efficient charge and energy flow in graphene, opening up opportunities for developing new types of light-har...

Dec 17, 2018

Data storage using individual molecules

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Researchers from the University of Basel have reported a new method that allows the physical state of just a few atoms or molecules within a network to be controlled. It is based on the spontaneous self-organization of molecules into extensive net...

Dec 17, 2018

Data storage using individual molecules

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have reported a new method that allows the physical state of just a few atoms or molecules within a network to be controlled. It is based on the spontaneous self-organization of molecules into extensive networks with pores about one na...

Dec 17, 2018

Researchers demonstrate teleportation using on-demand photons from quantum dots

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A team of researchers from Austria, Italy and Sweden has successfully demonstrated teleportation using on-demand photons from quantum dots. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group explains how they accomplished this fea...

Dec 17, 2018

New type of low-energy nanolaser that shines in all directions

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Researchers have developed a new type of low-energy, nanoscale laser that shines in all directions. The key to its omnidirectional light emission is the introduction of something that is usually highly undesirable in nanotechnology: irregularities...

Dec 17, 2018

From foe to friend: Graphene catalyzes the C-C bond formation

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Graphene monolayers can be epitaxially grown on many single-crystal metal surfaces under ultra-high vacuum. On one side, these monolayers protect highly reactive metallic surfaces from contaminants, but on the other side, the piling of the layers ...

Dec 17, 2018

For a longer battery life: Pushing lithium ion batteries to the next performance level

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Conventional lithium ion batteries, such as those widely used in smartphones and notebooks, have reached performance limits. Materials chemist Freddy Kleitz from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Vienna and international scientists ha...

Dec 17, 2018

For a longer battery life: Pushing lithium ion batteries to the next performance level

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Conventional lithium ion batteries, such as those widely used in smartphones and notebooks, have reached performance limits. Materials chemist Freddy Kleitz from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Vienna and international scientists ha...

Dec 17, 2018

Optimizing Drug Delivery Using Electrospun Polymeric Nanofibers

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Nanotechnology has turned out to be an intriguing strategy toward solving challenges in the field of medicine in the latest studies. Dr Jose Manuel Cornejo Bravo has shown the use of electrospun...

Dec 17, 2018

MIT can shrink 3D objects down to nanoscale versions

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It's difficult to create nanoscale 3D objects. The techniques either tend to be slow (such as stacking layers of 2D etchings) or are limited to specific materials and shapes. MIT researchers might have a better way -- they've de...

Dec 17, 2018

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