Chemistry
Highly efficient charge-to-spin interconversion in graphene heterostructures
Researchers present a new route for designing a graphene-based active spintronic componentCredit: KAIST KAIST physicists described a route to design...
Efficient, ‘green’ quantum-dot solar cells exploit defects
Quantum-dot approach shows promise for a new type of toxic-element-free, inexpensive, defect-tolerant solar cellsCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory Novel quantum...
Riddled with holes: Making flexible thin-film electronics more durable
Scientists explain how perforating flexible electrodes with micrometer-sized holes makes them resistant to bending and foldingCredit: DGIST The prospect of...
Scientists break the link between a quantum material’s spin and orbital states
The advance opens a path toward a new generation of logic and memory devices based on orbitronics that could be...
Big data and synthetic chemistry could fight climate change and pollution
University of South Carolina chemists look to the future of materials designCredit: University of South Carolina COLUMBIA, S.C. -- May...
Using big data to design gas separation membranes
Columbia engineers apply machine learning techniques to narrow down and speed up the development of new materials for removing CO2...
Controlling cells with light
A research team from Jena, Munich and New York develops an active substance that controls an important component of the...
Light, fantastic: the path ahead for faster, smaller computer processors
Australian and German researchers build modular bridge design for nanoscale photonic chipCredit: Louise Cooper/University of Sydney Light is emerging as...
UTA civil engineer leads projects with city of Coppell to inspect sewer pipelines
Robots, artificial intelligence and sewer systemsCredit: UT Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington and the city of Coppell in...
Quantifying the impact of interventions
Göttingen team analyzes the progression of the epidemicCredit: (c) MPIDS Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization...
‘Hot and messy’ entanglement of 15 trillion atoms
Credit: ICFO Quantum entanglement is a process by which microscopic objects like electrons or atoms lose their individuality to become...
A soft touch for robotic hardware
Combined muscles and sensors made from soft materials allow for flexible robotsCredit: © 2020 Nakajima et al. Robots can be...
New algorithm predicts optimal materials among all possible compounds
Credit: Zahed Allahyari and Artem R. Oganov / NPJ Computational Materials Skoltech researchers have offered a solution to the problem...
Researchers reveal largest and hottest shield volcano on Earth
Credit: NOAA In a recently published study, researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth...
2D sandwich sees molecules with clarity
Rice University engineers adapt 2D 'sandwich' for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopyCredit: Lou Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 14, 2020) - A...
Seeing the universe through new lenses
Images collected for dark energy telescope project reveal hundreds of new gravitational lens candidatesCredit: Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, Hubble...
Clever new robot rover design conquers sand traps
Credit: hristopher Moore, Georgia Tech) RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Built with wheeled appendages that can be lifted, a new...
Catnip’s chemical attractant is new twist on old family tradition
Credit: Alex Abair GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Catnip is most famous for its ability to launch felines into a euphoric frenzy,...
Making quantum ‘waves’ in ultrathin materials
Study co-led by Berkeley Lab reveals how wavelike plasmons could power up a new class of sensing and photochemical technologies...
Unlocking the gate to the millisecond CT
Credit: Tohoku University Many will undergo a CT scan at some point in their lifetime - being slid in and...
