Benjamin Fingerhut, junior group leader at the Max Born Institute (MBI), is recipient of the 2018 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant to address ultrafast biomolecular dynamics via a nonadiabatic theoretical approach. The award is gra...
Sep 6, 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'.
Sep 6, 2018
Truly secure communications. No eavesdropping. That's the promise of quantum communication. One challenge to making it a reality is light. We need an efficient way to create packets of light, called photons. Now, scientists have identified ho...
Sep 6, 2018
An international research group improved perovskite solar cells efficiency by using materials with better light absorption properties. For the first time, researchers used silicon nanoparticles.
Sep 6, 2018
An international research group improved perovskite solar cells efficiency by using materials with better light absorption properties. For the first time, researchers used silicon nanoparticles.
Sep 6, 2018
Gold is the noblest metal—the most resistant to oxidation. However, nano-size gold has a unique ability to perform as a catalyst, even at low temperatures. The underlying mechanism for this size-dependent change in properties has puzzled scientist...
Sep 6, 2018
One day in the not-so-distant future, light sails may hurtle through space at speeds of around 20% of the speed of light (or 60,000 km/sec), propelled not by fuel but rather by the radiation pressure from high-power lasers on Earth. Traveling at t...
Sep 6, 2018
Efficient generation of photon pairs from modified carbon nanotubes shows path to new types of light sources.
Sep 6, 2018
Efficient generation of photon pairs from modified carbon nanotubes shows path to new types of light sources.
Sep 6, 2018
Scientists uncover a way to control terahertz radiation using tiny engineered particles in a magnetic field, potentially opening the doors for better medical and environmental sensors.
Sep 6, 2018
