When two atomically thin two-dimensional layers are stacked on top of each other and one layer is made to rotate against the second layer, they begin to produce patterns the familiar moiré patterns...
Nov 6, 2018
When choosing materials to make something, trade-offs need to be made between a host of properties, such as thickness, stiffness and weight. Depending on the application in question, finding just the right balance is the difference between success...
Nov 6, 2018
Engineers have demonstrated a new material they call 'nanocardboard,' an ultrathin equivalent of corrugated paper cardboard. A square centimeter of nanocardboard weighs less than a thousandth of a gram and can spring back into shape afte...
Nov 6, 2018
In cooperation with French and Greek researchers, scientists from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI have found a simple way to lower the production costs of nano-electronics through controlled deformation of nanotubes and other tiny o...
Nov 6, 2018
Researchers have identified the weak molecular forces that hold together a tiny, self-assembling box with powerful possibilities. The
Nov 6, 2018
Researchers map nanoscale changes in memory material.
Nov 6, 2018
A team from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) developed a novel nanostructure embedded into a semiconductor nanofibre that results in superb conductivity. The nanocomposite addresses a key inhibitor to conductivity, with the potential t...
Nov 6, 2018
Technology could be scaled-up to create quantum-computer chips The post Silicon device reads and writes quantum information appeared first on Physics World.
Nov 6, 2018
Researchers from Brown University and the Institute of Metals Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a new way to use nanotwins -- tiny linear boundaries in a metal's atomic lattice that have identical crystalline structures ...
Nov 6, 2018
Scientists are working to develop a method to convert water and carbon dioxide to the renewable energy of the future, using the energy from the sun and graphene applied to the surface of cubic silicon carbide.
Nov 6, 2018
