Tag: Materials

Miguel Modestino is honored for research to make chemical production processes greenerCredit: NYU Tandon BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, June 17, ...

Order from disorder

Using turbulence to generate frequency combs from small ring lasersCredit: Harvard SEAS We've all experienced turbulent air and water, but ...

Microlandscaped abrasive tools deliver perfect grinding results

Credit: Oliver Dietze Tiny pyramids and cubes precisely aligned in rows and columns or radial lines of minute raised dots ...

Using tiny electrodes to measure electrical activity in bacteria

Organic microbial electrochemical transistor monitoring extracellular electron transferCredit: Thor Balkhed Scientists at Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, have developed ...

Photonics: From custom-built to ready-made

Credit: Lin Chang (UCSB) Information technology continues to progress at a rapid pace. However, the growing demands of data centers ...

Energy storage using oxygen to boost battery performance

Credit: Jeung Ku Kang, KAIST Researchers have presented a novel electrode material for advanced energy storage device that is directly ...

Nanofiber masks can be sterilized multiple times without filter performance deterioration

$345K NSF grant to fund research to modify paper electronics to make them stretchable

Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York A three-year, $345,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will fund research ...

The smallest motor in the world

On the trail of enigmatic quantum phenomenaCredit: Empa The smallest motor in the world - consisting of just 16 atoms: ...

Scientists discover a long-sought-after nitrogen allotrope in black phosphorus structure

Credit: Cheng Ji Graphene, or a single layer of graphite, has a set of novel properties that have attracted tremendous ...

Determining effective magnetic moment of multicore nanoparticles

Magnetic nanoparticles can be used for drug targeting, storage media, moreCredit: Frank Ludwig WASHINGTON, June 16, 2020 -- Magnetic nanoparticles, ...

All of the performance, none of the fuss: Nitrile hydrogenation done right

Osaka University researchers synthesize an easy-to-handle nano-cobalt phosphide catalyst for efficient hydrogenation of nitriles to primary aminesCredit: Osaka University Osaka, ...

Borrowing from robotics, scientists automate mapping of quantum systems

Understanding the character of hardware errors helps stabilise the technologyCredit: University of Sydney Scientists at the University of Sydney have ...

MIT, NIST create first room-temp ‘magnon switch’ with industrially useful properties