Airy, Airier, Aerogel. Until now, brittleness has limited the practical application of these delicate solids, which consist almost entirely of air-filled pores. This may now change: Japanese researchers have now introduced extremely elastic aerog...
Jul 27, 2018
Semiconductor material Gelest Inc. has announced the commercializing of diiodosilane to meet the global demand of the semiconductor industry for next-generation semiconductor chips. Gelest’s dedicated diiodosilane plant in Morrisville is fully o...
Jul 27, 2018
Following the isolation of graphene in 2004, a race began to synthesize new two-dimensional materials. These are single-layer substances with a thickness of between one atom and a few nanometers (billionths of a meter). They have unique properties...
Jul 27, 2018
Researchers at the Higher School of Economics and the Federal Scientific Research Centre “Crystallography and Photonics” have developed multi-layered nanowires to analyze their...
Jul 27, 2018
For the first time, researchers have been successful in measuring the attributive patterns of folds that give proteins their three-dimensional shape in water at the nanoscale. They achieved this by...
Jul 27, 2018
Carbon nanotubes coated onto a holey silicon substrate emit a superabundance of single particles of light.
Jul 27, 2018
An international team of researchers has discovered a new mechanism for controlling electronic devices using molecules. The ferroelectric ordering of polar molecules attached to the edge of graphene can be toggle-switched by an electrostatic gate ...
Jul 27, 2018
An international team of researchers has discovered a new mechanism for controlling electronic devices using molecules. The ferroelectric ordering of polar molecules attached to the edge of graphene can be toggle-switched by an electrostatic gate ...
Jul 27, 2018
Researchers have created a new type of optical system. Their 'nano-hedgehogs of light', also known as optical skyrmions, set the stage for a new platform for information processing, transfer and storage applications.
Jul 27, 2018
In synthetic biology, the control of gene expression requires a multistep processing of biological signals. The key steps are sensing the environment, computing information and outputting products. To achieve such functions, the laborious, combina...
Jul 26, 2018
