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All-inorganic perovskite nanocrystals illuminate the future of scintillators - Physics World

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Perovskite nanocrystals could be used as tunable scintillators for high sensitivity X-ray detection The post All-inorganic perovskite nanocrystals illuminate the future of scintillators appeared first on Physics World.

Sep 10, 2018

All-in-one light-driven water splitting

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Solar-powered water splitting is a promising means of generating clean and storable energy. A novel catalyst based on semiconductor nanoparticles has now been shown to facilitate all the reactions needed for “artificial photosynthesis”. In the li...

Sep 10, 2018

Golden sandwich could make the world more sustainable

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Scientists have developed a photoelectrode that can harvest 85 percent of visible light in a 30 nanometers-thin semiconductor layer between gold layers, converting light energy 11 times more efficiently than previous methods.

Sep 10, 2018

Golden sandwich could make the world more sustainable

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Scientists have developed a photoelectrode that can harvest 85 percent of visible light in a 30 nanometers-thin semiconductor layer between gold layers, converting light energy 11 times more efficiently than previous methods.

Sep 10, 2018

Researchers develop a solid material with mobile nanoparticles that react to the environment

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A new 'active nanocomposite' is teeming with motion: small particles connect or separate, thus changing the color of the entire material.

Sep 10, 2018

Researchers develop a solid material with mobile nanoparticles that react to the environment

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A new 'active nanocomposite' is teeming with motion: small particles connect or separate, thus changing the color of the entire material.

Sep 10, 2018

Algorithm accurately predicts how electromagnetic waves and magnetic materials interact

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UCLA Samueli engineers have developed a new tool to model how magnetic materials, which are used in smartphones and other communications devices, interact with incoming radio signals that carry data. It accurately predicts these interactions down ...

Sep 10, 2018

Novel nano material for quantum electronics

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An international team led by Assistant Professor Kasper Steen Pedersen, DTU Chemistry, has synthesized a novel nano material with electrical and magnetic properties making it suitable for future quantum computers and other applications in electron...

Sep 10, 2018

Graphene enables clock rates in the terahertz range

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Graphene is considered a promising candidate for the nanoelectronics of the future. In theory, it should allow clock rates up to a thousand times faster than today's silicon-based electronics. Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Ros...

Sep 10, 2018

Researchers discover how caged molecules 'rattle and sing'

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A team of energy researchers from the University of Minnesota and University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered that molecular motion can be predicted with high accuracy when confining molecules in small nanocages. Their theoretical method is...

Sep 10, 2018

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