For decades researchers have studied materials from structures to see why and how they fail. Before catastrophic failure, there are individual cracks or dislocations that form, which are signals that a structure may be weakening. While researchers...
Oct 15, 2018
Using elaborate chemical synthesis techniques, a team of Spanish researchers led by Rubén Costa of IMDEA Materials (Madrid) was able to synthetize all three Red Green Blue (RGB) colour down-converters typically used for the manufacture of w...
Oct 15, 2018
Nanodiamonds, bits of crystalline carbon hundreds of thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, have intriguing surface and chemical properties with potential applications in medicine, optoelectronics and quantum computing. To forge these na...
Oct 15, 2018
To forge nanodiamonds, which have potential applications in medicine, optoelectronics and quantum computing, researchers expose organic explosive molecules to powerful detonations in a controlled environment. These explosive forces, however, make ...
Oct 15, 2018
The discovery of graphene, a material made of one or very few atomic layers of carbon, started a boom. Today, such two-dimensional materials are no longer limited to carbon and are hot prospects for many applications, especially in microelectronic...
Oct 15, 2018
Nanoscope Technologies has been awarded a bioengineering research grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance bioluminescent multicharacteristic opsin (MCO) for the simultaneous optical stimulation and large-scale monitoring of the...
Oct 15, 2018
Researchers reported a high-performance and transparent nanoforce touch sensor by developing a thin, flexible, and transparent hierarchical nanocomposite (HNC) film. The research team says their sensor simultaneously features all the necessary cha...
Oct 15, 2018
Researchers reported a high-performance and transparent nanoforce touch sensor by developing a thin, flexible, and transparent hierarchical nanocomposite film.
Oct 15, 2018
Catalysis, in the course of which a substance accelerates a chemical reaction, but remains unchanged, is of central importance to many industrial processes. To develop efficient catalysts optimized for various applications, researchers of differen...
Oct 15, 2018
Researchers have developed a procedure and a computer model that can simulate the highly variable conditions of explosions on phenomenally short time scales.
Oct 15, 2018
