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Graphene shows unique potential to exceed bandwidth demands of future telecommunications

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Researchers within the Graphene Flagship project, one of the biggest research initiatives of the European Commission, showed that integrated graphene-based photonic devices offer a unique solution for the next generation of optical communications....

Oct 12, 2018

Nanoscale spin-wave circuits based on engineered reconfigurable spin-textures

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Information processing technologies that are typically based on electron charges can also theoretically make use of the electric spin. Magnon spintronics can harness quantized spin waves, magnons, as carriers of spin currents in integrated magnoni...

Oct 12, 2018

High-performance self-assembled catalyst for SOFC

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A recent study affiliated with UNIST has introduced a novel catalyst that can significantly enhance the performance of perovskite electrodes in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC).

Oct 12, 2018

Nanosurf User Meeting 2018

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Join your fellow Nanosurf AFM users and take the opportunity to discuss applications, techniques, and breakthroughs with your peers from research, industry, and life science.

Oct 12, 2018

Frances Ross discusses witnessing nanostructure formation

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Professor Frances Ross joined the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering this fall after a career of developing techniques that probe materials reactions while they take place. Formerly with the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in...

Oct 12, 2018

Researchers quickly harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization

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Since the 2003 discovery of the single-atom-thick carbon material known as graphene, there has been significant interest in other types of 2-D materials as well.

Oct 12, 2018

Hidden gapless states on the path to semiconductor nanocrystals

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When chemists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw were starting work on a new material designed for the efficient production of nanocrystalline zinc oxide, they didn't expect any surprises. The...

Oct 12, 2018

Light switch: Scientists develop method to control nanoscale manipulation in high-powered microscopes

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Researchers from Japan have taken a step toward faster and more advanced electronics by developing a a better way to measure and manipulate conductive materials through scanning tunneling microscopy. The team published their results in July in Nan...

Oct 12, 2018

Determining catalytic active sites using carbon nanotubes

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Catalytic research led by University of Oklahoma researcher Steven Crossley has developed a new and more definitive way to determine the active site in a complex catalyst. Catalysts consisting of metal particles supported on reducible oxides show...

Oct 12, 2018

Light switch: Scientists develop method to control nanoscale manipulation in scanning tunneling microscopes

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Scientists have taken a step toward faster and more advanced electronics by developing a way to better measure and manipulate conductive materials through scanning tunneling microscopy.

Oct 12, 2018

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