Researchers map nanoscale changes in memory material.
Nov 6, 2018
A team from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) developed a novel nanostructure embedded into a semiconductor nanofibre that results in superb conductivity. The nanocomposite addresses a key inhibitor to conductivity, with the potential t...
Nov 6, 2018
Technology could be scaled-up to create quantum-computer chips The post Silicon device reads and writes quantum information appeared first on Physics World.
Nov 6, 2018
Researchers from Brown University and the Institute of Metals Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a new way to use nanotwins -- tiny linear boundaries in a metal's atomic lattice that have identical crystalline structures ...
Nov 6, 2018
Scientists are working to develop a method to convert water and carbon dioxide to the renewable energy of the future, using the energy from the sun and graphene applied to the surface of cubic silicon carbide.
Nov 6, 2018
In recent years, black-phosphorus-analogue (BPA) two-dimensional materials have been demonstrated to exhibit promising optoelectronic performances and distinguished ambient stabilities, holding great promise in practical applications. In new work...
Nov 6, 2018
A team of Penn Engineers has demonstrated a new material they call 'nanocardboard,' an ultrathin equivalent of corrugated paper cardboard. A square centimeter of nanocardboard weighs less than a thousandth of a gram and can spring back i...
Nov 6, 2018
A whiff of plasma, when combined with a nanosized catalyst, can cause chemical reactions to proceed faster, more selectively, at lower temperatures, or at lower voltages than without plasma. Using computer modeling, researchers investigated the in...
Nov 6, 2018
Moving away from a decade of using quantum dots, this on-chip design dramatically boosts the efficiency of quantum emitters
Nov 5, 2018
Moving away from a decade of using quantum dots, this on-chip design dramatically boosts the efficiency of quantum emitters
Nov 5, 2018
