Prof. Peng Chenhui's team from the School of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), realized the collective transfer and reconfigurable self-assembly of colloidal particles by combining the light-driven molecular motor...
Apr 21, 2023
Researchers have successfully fabricated mechanical metamaterials with ultra-high energy absorption capacity using the ion track technology.
Apr 21, 2023
Graphene conducts electricity well – too well, in fact, to be useful in microelectronic technology. But by sandwiching graphene between two layers of boron nitride, which also has a hexagonal pattern, a moiré pattern results. The presence of this ...
Apr 21, 2023
Researchers at Brown University have developed an approach to scattering-type scanning near-field microscopy (s-SNOM) that uses blue light to enable measurement of electrons in semiconductors, as well as other nanoscale materials. The findings, wh...
Apr 21, 2023
Researchers at The University of Manchester have discovered record-high magnetoresistance in graphene, offering potential breakthroughs in understanding strange metals and applications in magnetic sensors.
Apr 20, 2023
In a new study, immunostimulatory drugs slowed tumor growth without producing systemic inflammation. MIT researchers discovered that immunostimulatory prodrugs with optimized activation timing can slow tumor growth without causing systemic inflamm...
Apr 20, 2023
A team of materials scientists has developed a translucent and thermally insulating building component based on silica aerogel granules -- an aerogel glass brick.
Apr 20, 2023
While glass bricks are effective for allowing daylight into buildings, they're not good insulators and they can't be used for entire load-bearing walls. Such is reportedly not the case, however, with experimental new aerogel-filled trans...
Apr 20, 2023
Non-classical states of light such as single photons and entangled photons are key ingredients for chips dedicated to quantum computation, quantum sensing, quantum measurement, etc. Fabrication of a traditional chip is hard, but with billions of d...
Apr 20, 2023
Hydrogen substitution is an innovative strategy for boosting the performance of thermoelectric oxide SrTiO3, find researchers at Tokyo Tech. Their latest study reveals that the approach lowers the thermal conductivity and also realizes high electr...
Apr 20, 2023
