Hyperbolic metamaterials are structures created artificially by depositing alternating thin layers of a conductor such as graphene or silver onto a substrate. One of their distinct abilities is aiding...
Feb 13, 2019
Complex, three-dimensional (3-D) structures are regularly constructed using a reliable commercial method of 3-D laser micro- and nanoprinting. In a recent study, Frederik Mayer and co-workers in Germany and Australia have presented a new system in...
Feb 13, 2019
Laser-induced graphene, or LIG in short, is a flaky foam of carbon that measures only one atom thick. It possesses a number of interesting characteristics on its own, but as part of a composite, it is...
Feb 13, 2019
When Rice University chemist and engineer Hossein Robatjazi set out to marry a molecular sieve called MOF to a plasmonic aluminum nanoparticle two years ago, he never imagined the key would be the same process nature uses to petrify wood. In a ne...
Feb 13, 2019
New process combines 3D laser lithography with microfluidics.
Feb 13, 2019
Researchers have shown substantial degradation of these nanoparticles, followed in certain cases by the cells 're-magnetizing'. This phenomenon is the sign of biosynthesis of new magnetic nanoparticles from iron released in the intracell...
Feb 13, 2019
The formation of dendrites on the metal electrodes of lithium metal batteries causes safety and performance concerns. To avoid dendrites, researchers are experimenting with new battery electrolyte chemistries, new separator technologies, and new p...
Feb 13, 2019
Ten years into the future. That's about how far UC Santa Barbara electrical and computer engineering professor John Bowers and his research team are reaching with the recent development of their mode-locked quantum dot lasers on silicon. It&#...
Feb 13, 2019
In a finding that runs counter to a common assumption in physics, researchers at the University of Michigan ran a light emitting diode (LED) with electrodes reversed in order to cool another device mere nanometers away.
Feb 13, 2019
In February the article 'Metal-doped organic aerogels for photocatalytic degradation of trimethoprim' written by the researchers of two research groups (nanoporous materials and environmental technology research groups) of Tallinn Univer...
Feb 13, 2019
