Researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich, in collaboration with partners from Peking University, the University of Warwick and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, have succeeded in attaching electrodes to individual atomically precise graph...
Aug 16, 2023
Move over, quantum dots – quantum rods could be the next big display technology. These tiny sticks could improve 3D displays for VR headsets, and now engineers at MIT have overcome a logistical hurdle by arranging them onto a scaffold made of DNA.
Aug 16, 2023
When California biotech company Second Sight ran out of money in 2020, the future looked dim for hundreds of blind users around the world relying on its Argus II retinal implant, or its next-generation Orion brain implant, for some approximation o...
Aug 15, 2023
Scientists recreate and compare molecular languages at the origin of life -- opening new doors for the development of novel nanotechnologies.
Aug 15, 2023
Two molecular languages at the origin of life have been successfully recreated and mathematically validated. The breakthrough opens new doors for the development of nanotechnologies with applications ranging from biosensing, drug delivery and mole...
Aug 15, 2023
Graphene nanoribbons have outstanding properties that can be precisely controlled. Researchers have succeeded in attaching electrodes to individual atomically precise nanoribbons, paving the way for precise characterization of the fascinating ribb...
Aug 15, 2023
Chemists have discovered that tiny gold 'seed' particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spheres that are cousins of the Nobel Prize-winning carbon buckyb...
Aug 15, 2023
Two molecular languages at the origin of life have been successfully recreated and mathematically validated, thanks to pioneering work by Canadian scientists at Université de Montréal.
Aug 15, 2023
Pt-based intermetallic alloys with high activity and stability are promising for accelerating the cathodic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and large-scale application of proton exchange membrane fuel cells.
Aug 15, 2023
Graphene nanoribbons have outstanding properties that can be precisely controlled. Researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich, in collaboration with partners from Peking University, the University of Warwick and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Rese...
Aug 15, 2023
