Tag: Materials

Using an infrared photodiode pointed to the sky, a new device harvests energy from the temperature difference between Earth and ...

New class of catalysts for energy conversion

Material researchCredit: RUB, Marquard Numerous chemical reactions relevant for the energy revolution are highly complex and result in considerable energy ...

The power of randomization: Magnetic skyrmions for novel computer technology

First steps towards a practical application for magnetic skyrmionsCredit: ill./©: Andreas Donges, University of Konstanz Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University ...

Plastic gets a do-over: Breakthrough discovery recycles plastic from the inside out

Scientists from Berkeley Lab have made a next-generation plastic that can be recycled again and again into new materials of ...

Driving chemical reactions with light

Chemical nature of surface molecules influences plasmon responses of metal nanoparticles How can chemical reactions be triggered by light, following ...

Review of preparation and structures of silicon nanowire/germanium quantum dot composite materials

Credit: Xiaokang Weng et al. In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, a team of ...

Review on the synthesis and anti-oxidation of copper nanowires for transparent conductive electrodes

Credit: Jia Feng Chao et al. In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, a team ...

Taming defective porous materials for robust and selective heterogeneous catalysis

Credit: Manuel A. Ortuño (ICIQ) The production of 1-butene via ethylene dimerization is one of the few industrial processes that ...

Stanford researchers’ artificial synapse is fast, efficient and durable

Credit: Armantas Melianas and Scott Keene The brain's capacity for simultaneously learning and memorizing large amounts of information while requiring ...

Bottom-up approach can synthesize microscopic diamonds for bioimaging, quantum computing

Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington Scientists are excited about diamonds -- not the types that adorn jewelry, but the microscopic ...

Stickier than expected: Hydrogen binds to graphene in 10 femtoseconds

Bound for only ten quadrillionths of a secondCredit: Oliver Bünermann / Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry & University of ...

Monitoring the lifecycle of tiny catalyst nanoparticles

Since they are so tiny, it is difficult to investigate single nanoparticlesCredit: RUB, Marquard Nanoparticles can be used in many ...

Andrea Alù receives Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship

The Defense Department's most prestigious single-investigator award will provide $3 million to support Alù's effort to engineer highly innovative materials ...

Sculpting super-fast light pulses

NIST nanopillars shape light precisely for practical applicationsCredit: S. Kelley/NIST Imagine being able to shape a pulse of light in ...

Promising material could lead to faster, cheaper computer memory

Researchers confirmed that bismuth ferrite, which responds to both magnetic and electric fields, can be used to effienctly store informationCredit: ...

Researchers make organic solar cells immune to the ravages of water, air and light

BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, May 3, 2019 - The market for organic solar cells is expected to grow more than ...

Exploding electrical wires underwater to understand shock waves

Researchers offer a new tool to characterize shock waves with their experimentally confirmed model that describes the relationship between the ...

Laser-driven spin dynamics in ferrimagnets: How does the angular momentum flow?

Credit: Photograph by Erik Gustafson, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives, Margrethe Bohr Collection. When exposed to intense laser ...

High thermal conductivity of new material will create energy efficient devices

Researchers at the University of Bristol have successfully demonstrated the high thermal conductivity of a new material, paving the way ...

Transforming waste heat into clean energy