Scientists have constructed functional metalenses that are one-tenth to one-half the thickness of the wavelengths of light that they focus. Their metalenses, which were constructed out of layered 2D materials, were as thin as 190 nanometers -- les...
Nov 14, 2018
Rice University scientists have built a better epoxy for electronic applications.
Nov 14, 2018
Due to a lack of quality control in commercial graphene, poor quality products are being touted as high-grade, therefore an NUS study team has come up with a reliable way to test the quality of...
Nov 14, 2018
A new thermal transistor could help conduct heat away from delicate electronic components and also insulate them against chip and circuit failure.
Nov 14, 2018
Scientists combine graphene foam, epoxy into tough, conductive composite.
Nov 14, 2018
aluminum alloys have unique material properties and are indispensable materials in aircraft manufacturing and space technology. With the help of high-resolution electron tomography, researchers at TU Graz have for the first time decoded mechanisms...
Nov 14, 2018
A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with researchers from Monash University Australia, has succeeded in significantly increasing the stability and biocompatibility of special light-transducin...
Nov 14, 2018
Electrically conductive polymer nanostructures that are many times longer than they are wide make graphene—atom-thin sheets of carbon—a
Nov 14, 2018
Scientists from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) have dramatically improved the response of graphene to light through self-assembling wire-like nanostructures that conduct electricity. The improvement could pave the way for the devel...
Nov 14, 2018
Scientists at HZB have found evidence that double layers of graphene have a property that may let them conduct current completely without resistance. They probed the bandstructure at BESSY II with extremely high resolution ARPES and could identif...
Nov 14, 2018