The use of solid-state refrigerators to cool appliances and electronic devices is a possible technological application for a theoretical study conducted at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo State, Brazil.
Apr 25, 2019
ETH researchers have cooled a nanoparticle to a record low temperature, thanks to a sophisticated experimental set-up that uses scattered laser light for cooling. Until now, no one has ever cooled a nanoparticle to such low temperatures in a phot...
Apr 25, 2019
Scientists at Tokyo Tech’s Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science have produced a micelle-type nano-container that can be toggled between assembled and disassembled states through simple...
Apr 25, 2019
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
