A team of researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the University of Potsdam has investigated heat transport in a model system comprising nanometre-thin metallic and magnetic layers. Similar systems are candidates for future high-e...
Aug 27, 2018
Researchers have achieved highly stable and efficient colloidal quantum dot-based solar cells by using an amorphous organic layer to block oxygen and water permeation.
Aug 27, 2018
Researchers have achieved highly stable and efficient colloidal quantum dot-based solar cells by using an amorphous organic layer to block oxygen and water permeation.
Aug 27, 2018
Nanotubes of the right diameter can prompt water inside to solidify into a square tube, transitioning into a kind of ice. The discovery could lead to new types of nanochannels devices, like nanoscale capacitors or syringes.
Aug 24, 2018
First, according to Rice University engineers, get a nanotube hole. Then insert water. If the nanotube is just the right width, the water molecules will align into a square rod.
Aug 24, 2018
Engineers show how water molecules square up in nanotubes.
Aug 24, 2018
Nanoparticle manufacturing, the production of material units less than 100 nanometers in size (100,000 times smaller than a marble), is proving the adage that “good things come in small packages.” Today’s engineered nanoparticles are integral com...
Aug 24, 2018
An international interdisciplinary team of virologists and biochemists that includes scientists at Freie Universität has developed low-cost and "cell-friendly" nanogels that can efficiently prevent viral infections. The flexible nanogels...
Aug 24, 2018
Engineers have altered a virus to arrange gold atoms into spheroids measuring a few nanometers in diameter. The finding could make production of some electronic components cheaper, easier, and faster.
Aug 24, 2018
The race is on to find manufacturing techniques capable of arranging molecular and nanoscale objects with precision.
Aug 24, 2018
