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Imperial Motion pitches the first self-healing tent

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

Everything from electronics to concrete is getting the self-healing treatment nowadays, but the technology rarely seems to make it to commercial products. Now, Imperial Motion is pitching a self-healing tent, made out of a proprietary mate...

Jul 3, 2018

Graphene and the atomic crystals that could see next big breakthrough in tech

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

What could we do with layered structures with just the right layers? What would the properties of materials be if we could really arrange the atoms the way we want them?

Jul 3, 2018

Light Mixer Generates 11 Colors Simultaneously

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

An optical frequency mixer has been developed that uses a novel nanostructured metamaterial to concurrently generate 11 different colors of light. The metamaterial is made from an array of gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanocylinders. Each nanocylinder i...

Jul 2, 2018

Nanotechnology Takes Giant Leap Foward by Manipulating Molecules

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Scientists have been able to move atoms around for 30 years, but moving molecules has proven much more difficult

Jul 2, 2018

Nanotechnology Takes Giant Leap Foward by Manipulating Molecules

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Scientists have been able to move atoms around for 30 years, but moving molecules has proven much more difficult

Jul 2, 2018

Water compresses under a high gradient electric field: Discovery of new physics may be useful for filtering biomolecules through a graphene nanopore

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Scientists have predicted new physics governing compression of water under a high-gradient electric field. Physicists found that a high electric field applied to a tiny hole in a graphene membrane would compress the water molecules traveling throu...

Jul 2, 2018

MIT Technology Review Applauds Georgia Tech’s Dahlman in ‘35 Innovators Under 35’

Georgia Tech   -   Organizations and Universities Websites

July 2, 2018 Atlanta, GA DNA barcoding has landed James Dahlman in a list that has previously honored Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Helen Greiner Research Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics Cancer Research Chemistry and Chem...

Jul 2, 2018

Trapping ions in graphene

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

Invigorating the idea of computers based on fluids instead of silicon, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown how computational logic operations could be performed in a liquid medium by simulating the ...

Jul 2, 2018

Quantum-enhanced sensing of magnetic fields

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

An international team of physicists has demonstrated that algorithms and hardware developed originally in the context of quantum computation can be harnessed for quantum-enhanced sensing of magnetic fields.

Jul 2, 2018

A ruthenium-based catalyst with highly active, flat surfaces outperforms metal-based competitors

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Scientists in Japan and India have developed a reusable, high-performance catalyst based on flat-shaped ruthenium nanoparticles (Ru-NP) for the production of valuable chemicals. Due to its demonstrated durability, the catalyst could be widely used...

Jul 2, 2018

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