One in five mobile phone users in the UK have cracked their screen by dropping the phone in a three year period, according to a YouGov poll. The mobile screens break easily because they are usually made from an oxide material which allows the touc...
Sep 10, 2018
The blood-brain barrier is an effective shield for our most vital of organs, and while that's great when it comes to infection, it's not so helpful when you're trying to get drugs in there. Recent research has found that nas...
Sep 10, 2018
Engineers have developed a new tool to model how magnetic materials, which are used in smartphones and other communications devices, interact with incoming radio signals that carry data. It accurately predicts these interactions down to the nanome...
Sep 10, 2018
Remember the suspenseful scene in a Mission: Impossible movie when Tom Cruise sneaks into a vault? He had to make
Sep 10, 2018
Perovskite nanocrystals could be used as tunable scintillators for high sensitivity X-ray detection The post All-inorganic perovskite nanocrystals illuminate the future of scintillators appeared first on Physics World.
Sep 10, 2018
Solar-powered water splitting is a promising means of generating clean and storable energy. A novel catalyst based on semiconductor nanoparticles has now been shown to facilitate all the reactions needed for “artificial photosynthesis”. In the li...
Sep 10, 2018
Scientists have developed a photoelectrode that can harvest 85 percent of visible light in a 30 nanometers-thin semiconductor layer between gold layers, converting light energy 11 times more efficiently than previous methods.
Sep 10, 2018
Scientists have developed a photoelectrode that can harvest 85 percent of visible light in a 30 nanometers-thin semiconductor layer between gold layers, converting light energy 11 times more efficiently than previous methods.
Sep 10, 2018
A new 'active nanocomposite' is teeming with motion: small particles connect or separate, thus changing the color of the entire material.
Sep 10, 2018
A new 'active nanocomposite' is teeming with motion: small particles connect or separate, thus changing the color of the entire material.
Sep 10, 2018
