A team of researchers from the U.K., Japan and the U.S. has found that Umklapp scattering in moiré superlattices can degrade the intrinsic high-temperature mobility of its graphene's charge carriers. In their paper published in the journal Na...
Oct 25, 2018
A mixture of nanoparticles and water can be used in the nano-water alternating gas approach (NWAG) to enhance oil recovery from an oil field. Now, the wettability of rock, relative permeability curves, and the interfacial tension has been analysed...
Oct 25, 2018
A nanoparticle-coated collagen membrane could help avoid infection in bone reconstruction before dental implants The post Nanoparticle-coated membrane improves dental implants appeared first on Physics World.
Oct 25, 2018
An international research team reports that light confined in the nanoscale propagates only in specific directions along thin slabs of molybdenum trioxide, a natural anisotropic 2-D material. Besides its unique directional character, this nanoligh...
Oct 25, 2018
Breakthroughs in the field of nanophotonics — how light behaves on the nanometer scale — have paved the
Oct 25, 2018
Light is the fastest thing we know of, so it makes sense to tap into it for ultra-fast communication systems. Fiber optics do just that, allowing us to precisely guide where we want to send messages, but speed isn't the only factor – ...
Oct 25, 2018
Rice University scientists use thin films of multiwalled carbon nanotubes to keep lithium metal from sprouting dendrites, tentacle-like growths that can cause batteries to fail. The strategy could be key to developing batteries that hold more ener...
Oct 25, 2018
Using engineered nanocomposite structures called metamaterials, a City College of New York-led research team reports the ability to measure a significant increase in the energy transfer between molecules. Reported in the journal ACS Photonics, thi...
Oct 25, 2018
Neural networks enable learning of error correction strategies for computers based on quantum physics
Oct 25, 2018
Professor Liu Xiaogang from the National University of Singapore led a team to develop novel lead halide perovskite nanocrystals that are highly sensitive to X-ray irradiation.
Oct 25, 2018
