Researchers at Tokyo Tech have developed a nanosized container bearing photoswitches that takes up hydrophobic compounds of various size and shape in water and subsequently releases them quantitatively by non-invasive light stimulus. The installed...
Apr 25, 2019
The nano research team led by professors Helge Weman and Bjørn-Ove Fimland at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's (NTNU) Department of Electronic Systems has succeeded in creating light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, from a nanoma...
Apr 25, 2019
Nanochannel technology allows scientists to conduct an experiment never attempted before: map all the locations where DNA replication begins simultaneously on millions of single DNA fibers.
Apr 25, 2019
Researchers demonstrate, for the first time, a tellurium@selenium (Te@Se) heterostructure used as a working material in a photoelectrochemical-type photodetector. Specifically, Te@Se nanotube heterojunctions synthesized by epitaxial growth of sele...
Apr 25, 2019
In addition to governing the quantum vacuum or the Universe, negative pressure, despite being of a different nature, also appears in liquid crystals restrained in nanopores. Now, a technique has...
Apr 25, 2019
The use of solid-state refrigerators to cool appliances and electronic devices is a potential technological application for a theoretical research carried out at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP)...
Apr 25, 2019
Researchers have explored the hierarchical micro-/nanostructures from human hair and isolated these structures as a new kind of biomaterial.
Apr 25, 2019
By studying how electrons in two-dimensional graphene can literally act like a liquid, researchers have paved the way for further research into a material that has the potential to enable future electronic computing devices that outpace silicon tr...
Apr 25, 2019
For the first time, physicists at the University of Basel have succeeded in measuring the magnetic properties of atomically thin van der Waals materials on the nanoscale. They used diamond quantum sensors to determine the strength of the magnetiza...
Apr 25, 2019
Nanotech-powered electrodes help solve the challenges of using sweat to assess biological conditions in real time.
Apr 25, 2019
