In recent years, black-phosphorus-analogue (BPA) two-dimensional materials have been demonstrated to exhibit promising optoelectronic performances and distinguished ambient stabilities, holding great promise in practical applications. In new work...
Nov 6, 2018
A team of Penn Engineers has 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 i...
Nov 6, 2018
A whiff of plasma, when combined with a nanosized catalyst, can cause chemical reactions to proceed faster, more selectively, at lower temperatures, or at lower voltages than without plasma. Using computer modeling, researchers investigated the in...
Nov 6, 2018
Moving away from a decade of using quantum dots, this on-chip design dramatically boosts the efficiency of quantum emitters
Nov 5, 2018
Moving away from a decade of using quantum dots, this on-chip design dramatically boosts the efficiency of quantum emitters
Nov 5, 2018
If you've ever had your bus show up later than scheduled, here's a welcome development for you. Volkswagen, with the help of D-Wave, has tapped the power of quantum computing to develop a traffic management system that can bette...
Nov 5, 2018
A new molecular probe, based on the fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) technique, uses compact quantum dots (QDs) instead of fluorescent dyes to illuminate molecules and diseased cells. Developed by a team from the University of Illinois at...
Nov 5, 2018
Propeller-shaped devices can easily swim through the dense, vitreous tissue of the eye The post Magnetic nanobots could treat retinal disease appeared first on Physics World.
Nov 5, 2018
New materials are being synthesized by twisting and stacking atomically thin layers. To bring it all under one roof, physicists propose this field of research be called ''electron quantum metamaterials.'
Nov 5, 2018
Researchers for the first time have shown that they can use electrical fields to gain valuable information about the tiny, floating vesicles that move around in animals and plants and are critically important to many biological functions.
Nov 5, 2018
