PNRs are ribbon-like strands of the 2D material phosphorous, which, like graphene, are made of single-atom-thick layers of atoms. They were first created in 2019 by a team led by Professor Chris Howard of UCL following over a hundred theoretical p...
Nov 17, 2022
Incorporating phosphorene nanoribbons into lithium-ion batteries dramatically improves performance and stability.
Nov 17, 2022
A new paper examines in detail the origin of curvature effects at the nanoscale and illustrates their potential applications in innovative electronic, spintronic and superconducting devices.
Nov 17, 2022
In a recently published paper in Nature Electronics, an international research group from Italy, Germany, the UK, and China examined significant development directions in the field of electronic materials with curved geometries at the nanoscale. F...
Nov 17, 2022
Extremely thin ceramic coatings can completely change the properties of technical components. Coatings are used, for example, to increase the resistance of metals to heat or corrosion. Coating processes play a role for large turbine blades as well...
Nov 17, 2022
What determines the durability of high-performance coatings for turbines or highly stressed tools? Surprising results show: It is not material fatigue.
Nov 17, 2022
Efficient spectral control of network lasers is possible and could lead to fast-switching, multifunctional light sources for on-chip photonic applications. Using experiments and mathematical models, researchers at Imperial College London demonstra...
Nov 17, 2022
Advanced Material Development (AMD) has announced that it has signed a contract for collaborative work with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for AMD’s proprietary thin-film graphene-based coatings technology - a Radio Frequency absorbing nan...
Nov 17, 2022
Neuromorphic chip consists of a thin film plastic semiconductor combined with stretchable gold nanowire electrodes.
Nov 17, 2022
Companies such as IBM offer timeshare access to prototype quantum computers, but researchers have shown that they can access other users’ data on these machines
Nov 16, 2022
