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UC Riverside’s Professor Receives $750K DOE Grant for Organic-Inorganic Materials

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Ming Lee Tang, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, has received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to continue her work on developing hybrid organic-inorganic materials that have a...

Aug 10, 2018

UC Riverside’s Professor Receives $750K DOE Grant for Organic-Inorganic Materials

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Ming Lee Tang, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, has received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to continue her work on developing hybrid organic-inorganic materials that have a...

Aug 10, 2018

Tying down electrons with nanoribbons

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Scientists are experimenting with narrow strips of graphene, called nanoribbons, in hopes of making cool new electronic devices, but University of California, Berkeley scientists have discovered another possible role for them: as nanoscale electr...

Aug 10, 2018

Taming defects in nanoporous materials to put them to a good use

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The word "defect" universally evokes some negative, undesirable feature, but researchers at the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University have a different opinion: in the realm of nanoporous materials, defects can be put to a ...

Aug 10, 2018

Trickle-Down Graphene: An Economical Production Mechanism

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By making carbon leak (trickle-down) through the cracks of a metal, researchers have produced graphene directly on a substrate. This versatile process enables graphene to be economically grown on...

Aug 10, 2018

MIT extrudes electronic-laden fibres for fabric-based wearables eeNews Europe

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Researchers from MIT have demonstrated how it was possible to embed and connect high speed optoelectronic semiconductor devices, including LEDs and diode photodetectors impermeably within polymer fibres as they are extruded. Detailing their...

Aug 10, 2018

Haydale prepreg for graphene-skinned plane

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The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) also includes graphene batteries and 3D printed parts....

Aug 10, 2018

Nanospheres may provide alternative to heart-attack surgery

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When a clot blocks a blood vessel in the heart, a heart attack is the unfortunate result. Frequently, surgery is required in order to remove that clot. Thanks to an experimental new drug-delivery system, however, that approach may become i...

Aug 9, 2018

Capasso Group Designs Metasurface Polarization Optics

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The Capasso Group at Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is focusing much of its research on metasurfaces and metasurface polarization optics. The metasurfaces are made of titanium dioxide and co...

Aug 9, 2018

Capasso Group Designs Metasurface Polarization Optics

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

The Capasso Group at Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is focusing much of its research on metasurfaces and metasurface polarization optics. The metasurfaces are made of titanium dioxide and co...

Aug 9, 2018

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