Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: WMG, University of Warwick Researchers in WMG at the University of Warwick, in collaboration with Imperial College London, have ...

Reducing traps increases performance of organic photodetectors

Credit: Christian Körner Organic photodetectors (OPDs) have a huge potential for applications in low-cost imaging, health monitoring and near infrared ...

Targeted coating improves graphene oxide membranes for nanofiltration

Credit: LI Sushuang Nanofiltration (NF) is an advanced technology for treating wastewater containing organic micropollutants (OMPs). Recently, a research group ...

Record-breaking laser link could help us test whether Einstein was right

Credit: ICRAR Scientists from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and The University of Western Australia (UWA) have set a ...

Bringing atoms to a standstill: NIST miniaturizes laser cooling

Credit: NIST It's cool to be small. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have miniaturized the ...

Personalizing cancer care with improved tumor models

Credit: Bryan Welm WASHINGTON, January 21, 2021 -- Cancer is a major, worldwide challenge, and its impact is projected to ...

Combining best of both worlds for cancer modeling

Tiny devices use samples taken directly from patients to combine in vivo and in vitro testing.Credit: Terry Juang WASHINGTON, January ...

Squeezing a rock-star material could make it stable enough for solar cells

A promising lead halide perovskite is great at converting sunlight to electricity, but it breaks down at room temperature; now ...

Researchers develop new graphene nanochannel water filters

Credit: Hurt lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- When sheets of two-dimensional nanomaterials like graphene are stacked on top ...

Having sustainability in mind: lithium from the Upper Rhine Graben for batteries

Research project on the use of deep geothermal energy to extract the raw material - funding is granted by the ...

Turbulence model could help design aircraft capable of handling extreme scenarios

Engineers make it possible to simulate complete 'dance' of colliding vortices at reduced computational timeCredit: Purdue University/Rebecca McElhoe WEST LAFAYETTE, ...

A display that completely blocks off counterfeits

Credit: POSTECH Despite the anticounterfeiting devices attached to luxury handbags, marketable securities, and identification cards, counterfeit goods are on the ...

Smooth touchdown: novel camera-based system for automated landing of drone on a fixed spot

Researchers demonstrate automated drone landing using 2D camera-based symbol detection, with potential applications in rescue missionsCredit: Malik Demirhan and Chinthaka ...

Drug-delivery microcapsules tagged with zirconium-89 can be tracked by PET imaging

If these hollow capsules are modified to target a solid tumor, PET imaging and therapeutic ultrasound can be used to ...

INL partners with Coreform to improve open-source modeling and simulation tool MOOSE

Credit: Idaho National Laboratory Long before an advanced nuclear reactor begins to generate power or another complicated project comes to ...

Electrons caught in the act

Scientists at the University of Tsukuba combine scanning tunneling microscopy with ultrafast spectroscopy to image the motion of electrons with ...

Innovations through hair-thin optical fibres

Study by the University of Bonn shows what miniaturised optical filters make possibleCredit: © Uni Bonn Scientists at the University ...

Producing green hydrogen through the exposure of nanomaterials to sunlight

A research team from INRS has joined forces with French researchers from ICPEES to pave the way towards the production ...

Lasers create miniature robots from bubbles (video)

Credit: Video credit belongs to the American Chemical Society. Robots are widely used to build cars, paint airplanes and sew ...

Researchers develop a new approach to detect pancreatic cancer