Researchers have found a way to control the lifetime of the quantum states of gold nanoclusters by three orders of magnitude, which could lead to improvements in solar cell and photocatalysis technologies.
Apr 26, 2019
Scientists have found a way to control the lifetime of the quantum states of gold nanoclusters by three orders of magnitude, which could lead to improvements in solar cell and photocatalysis technologies.
Apr 26, 2019
Graphene quantum dots drawn from common coal may be the basis for an effective antioxidant for people who suffer traumatic brain injuries, strokes or heart attacks.
Apr 26, 2019
Quantum computers, quantum cryptography and quantum (insert name here) are often in the news these days. Articles about them inevitably refer to entanglement, a property of quantum physics that makes all these magical devices possible.
Apr 26, 2019
Single-spin microscopy sheds light on 2D magnets including a puzzling anomaly in the properties of 2D CrI3 crystals The post Diamond quantum microscope images nanoscale features in 2D magnets appeared first on Physics World.
Apr 26, 2019
The ICN2 Oxide Nanophysics Group, led by ICREA Prof. Gustau Catalán, has published in Physical Review Letters how, due to flexoelectricity, cracks in ferroelectrics (switchable polar materials) propagate more easily in the polar direction than in ...
Apr 26, 2019
Electrochemical imaging shows that phosphorus and nitrogen atoms are vital for improving the potential of holey graphene to boost the liberation of hydrogen during electrolysis. An international...
Apr 26, 2019
For all its complexity, chemistry amounts to just two things: making and breaking bonds between atoms. Understanding how
Apr 26, 2019
A team of researchers from Germany, the U.S. and the U.K. has found that a significant number of H-C bonds formed when hydrogen atoms were forced at high speed to collide with graphene. In their paper published in the journal Science, the research...
Apr 26, 2019
Researchers have created phosphorene nanoribbons by accident - a material made from one of the universe?s basic building blocks, but that has the potential to revolutionise a wide range of technologies.
Apr 26, 2019
