To gild sculptures in the late Middle Ages, artists often applied ultra-thin gold foil supported by a silver base layer. For the first time, scientists have managed to produce nanoscale 3D images of this material, known as Zwischgold.
Oct 10, 2022
A new advance overcomes present limitations in spatial transcriptomics with a DNA nanotechnology-driven method called 'Light-Seq.' Light-Seq allows researchers to 'geotag' the full repertoire of RNA sequences with unique DNA ba...
Oct 10, 2022
Entanglement-like non-local phenomenon cannot be perfectly cloned, a finding that could have implications for quantum cryptography and quantum computing
Oct 10, 2022
Many weight-sensitive applications such as vehicles, electronics, and aircraft need a thin and lightweight radiative cooling paint made of nanoporous materials. However, achieving high solar reflectance in nanoporous paints with thin layers is a m...
Oct 10, 2022
Graphene is a suitable active substance for electric double-layer supercapacitors (EDLCs) because of its high electric conductance and lightweight composition. However, a porous configuration is needed to maximize the specific energy density of gr...
Oct 10, 2022
Field-effect transistor (FET) devices based on functionalized nanocarbon materials are a promising technology for biomolecular sensing applications. Nanocarbon-based field-effect transistor (NC-FET) devices allow for label-free detection of biomol...
Oct 10, 2022
Computer chips contain billions of microscopic transistors that allow robust computation, but also produce an enormous amount of heat.
Oct 10, 2022
Quantum computers have the potential to outperform classical computers on several complex tasks, yet many challenges will need to be overcome before they reach their full potential. In the meantime, physicists and computer scientists have been try...
Oct 10, 2022
The construction of substrate-specific nanopockets in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with allosteric effects has been demonstrated to facilitate the formation of the transition state in catalytic reactions, as enzymes do.
Oct 10, 2022
Researchers demonstrate a multitarget real-time trajectory tracking system by using a time-division position sensitive detector (TD-PSD) system by employing a graphene-silicon Schottky heterojunction. The system allows for multi-target real-time t...
Oct 10, 2022
