Nanocrystals are promising building blocks for new and improved electronic devices, due to their size-tunable properties and ability to integrate into devices at low-cost.
Oct 26, 2018
Personal electronic devices — smartphones, computers, TVs, tablets, screens of all kinds — are a significant and growing
Oct 26, 2018
A new class of curved plasmon beams named as a photonic hook plasmon can be used as a nanoparticle manipulator, as well as in biosensors to study substances in small volumes and plasmon microscopes for benefiting superresolution.
Oct 26, 2018
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are working to make better electronic devices by delving into the way
Oct 26, 2018
Disperse graphene in a suitable solvent and the resulting nanofluid will have much better thermal properties than the original liquid. Three ICN2 research groups collaborate to describe and explain...
Oct 26, 2018
X-rays are one of the most commonly used medical imaging tools. And while no-one is likely to reach the 10,000 X-ray lifetime limit (100 mSv) recommended by the American College of Radiology, no-one is going to argue against technology tha...
Oct 26, 2018
Naegleria fowleri is a pretty scary amoeba. Found in warm freshwater lakes, rivers and hot springs, it enters a person's body through their nose, then proceeds to kill them by eating their brain. Infections are rare, fortunately, and ...
Oct 25, 2018
Blood Cell sized robots could be mass-produced using a new method developed by researchers at MIT. Nature Materials – Autoperforation of 2D materials for generating two-terminal memristive Janus particles Syncells (short for synthetic cells), migh...
Oct 25, 2018
Rice University scientists are counting on films of carbon nanotubes to make high-powered, fast-charging lithium metal batteries a logical replacement for common lithium-ion batteries.
Oct 25, 2018
Scientists use thin films of multiwalled carbon nanotubes to keep lithium metal from sprouting dendrites, tentacle-like growths that can cause batteries to fail. The strategy could be key to developing batteries that hold more energy and charge fa...
Oct 25, 2018
