The precious metal platinum is a key catalyst for the chemical reactions at the heart of the next generation of more compact, high-performing hydrogen fuel cells. But platinum's high cost is preventing widespread adoption of this technology.
Dec 15, 2022
When a material with magnetic properties, constructed from appropriately selected layers, is illuminated by a pulse from an X-ray laser, it instantly demagnetizes. This phenomenon, so far poorly understood, could in the future be used in nanoelect...
Dec 15, 2022
By taking advantage of nature's own inherent symmetry, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have found a way to control and communicate with the dark state of atoms. This finding opens another door toward building quantu...
Dec 15, 2022
On the 1st of February 2023 Nanosurf will join an online seminar to present AFM technology as a research tool for nanomechanical testing in academia and industry, joining experts from other companies developing tools for mechanical materials surfa...
Dec 15, 2022
A new study demonstrates a new, counterintuitive way to protect atomically-thin electronics -- adding vibrations, to reduce vibrations. By squeezing a liquid-metal gallium droplet, graphene devices are painted with a protective coating of gallium-...
Dec 15, 2022
Researchers have developed a new all-optical method for driving multiple highly dense nanolaser arrays. As described in Optica, the approach could enable chip-based optical communication links that process and move data faster than today's el...
Dec 15, 2022
Researchers from Monash University, The University of Melbourne and RMIT University have shown a surprising way to protect atomically-thin electronics – adding vibrations, to reduce vibrations.
Dec 15, 2022
Recently, flexible electrochromic energy storage devices (FECESDs) have received a lot of interest as energy sources for powering flexible devices. Silver nanowires (AgNWs) are attractive nanomaterials for use as flexible transparent electrodes (F...
Dec 15, 2022
First measurement in a non-Abelian system will be useful for studies of complex systems, with implications for quantum computation and quantum simulation The post Geometric tensor measured in a superconducting quantum circuit appeared first on Phy...
Dec 14, 2022
This year saw the launch of ChatGPT, an AI that anyone can converse with, and the news that a quantum computer simulated a wormhole. Are our sensibilities about what is real changing, asks Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Dec 14, 2022
