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Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Big award enables study of small surfaces: Rice U.'s Matt Jones wins Packard Fellowship to view nanoscale chemical reactions

Nanotechnology Now   -   Nanotechnology Websites

It's one thing to start a chemical reaction and get a result, but it's quite another thing to watch it in progress. Rice University chemist Matt Jones wants to see it happen.

Oct 16, 2018

Exploring new spintronics device functionalities in graphene heterostructures

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Graphene Flagship researchers have shown how heterostructures built from graphene and topological insulators have strong, proximity induced spin-orbit coupling which can form the basis of novel information processing technologies.

Oct 16, 2018

Graphene may exceed bandwidth demands of future telecommunications

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from the Cambridge Graphene Centre, together with industrial and academic collaborators within the European Graphene Flagship project,

Oct 16, 2018

Computer Model Determines Ideal Conditions to Develop Nanodiamonds

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Nanodiamonds - the tiny crystalline carbon - have fascinating chemical and surface properties and hold promising applications in quantum computing, optoelectronics, and medicine. These materials...

Oct 16, 2018

Study shows faster, scalable way to make molecular semiconductors

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Recent work may enable scalable production of the nanoscale electrodes that are needed in order to explore molecules and exploit their behavior as potentially valuable electronic materials.

Oct 16, 2018

Exploring new spintronics device functionalities in graphene heterostructures

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In new work, scientists show heterostructures built from graphene and topological insulators have strong, proximity induced spin-orbit coupling which can form the basis of novel information processing technologies.

Oct 16, 2018

Molecular semiconductors could be the future of electronics, and this new technique offers a way to mass produce them

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Visions for what we can do with future electronics depend on finding ways to go beyond the capabilities of silicon conductors. The experimental field of molecular electronics is thought to represent a way forward, and recent work at KTH may enable...

Oct 16, 2018

High entropy alloys hold the key to studying dislocation avalanches in metals

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

New research findings have made it possible to understand how dislocations organize and react at nanoscale.

Oct 16, 2018

Exploring the challenges of exfoliating novel two-dimensional materials

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Ever since researchers at the University of Manchester used a piece of tape to isolate, or "exfoliate," a single layer of carbon, known as graphene, scientists have been investigating the creation of and applications for two-dimensional ...

Oct 16, 2018

Over 400,000 8K TVs to be shipped in 2019, says IHS Markit eeNews Europe

eeNews Europe   -   General News Websites

After declining unit-shipment volumes in 2017, global TV shipments are forecast to grow 3.6 percent year over year in 2018, with additional 1.4 percent growth in 2019, according to a new report from business information provider IHS Markit....

Oct 16, 2018

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