Tag: Materials

February 4, 2021

Bielefeld researchers provide 3D images of coronavirusesCredit: Photo left: Bielefeld University/M.-D. Müller, photo right: Thomas Popien Scientists at Bielefeld University's ...

How metal atoms can arrange themselves on an insulator

February 4, 2021

Bielefeld researchers publish study in Nature CommunicationsCredit: Photo: Bielefeld University/M.-D. Müller In order to produce tiny electronic memories or sensors ...

Nickel phosphide nanoparticle catalyst is the full package

February 4, 2021

Osaka University researchers report an air-stable, reusable, non-noble metal catalyst for the environmentally friendly hydrogenation of glucose to sorbitol with ...

Dynamic 3D printing process features a light-driven twist

Light provides freedom to control each layer and improves precision and speedCredit: Northwestern University The speed of light has come ...

SPARKZ licenses ORNL technology to speed up rechargeable battery production

Credit: ORNL/U.S. Dept. of Energy Energy storage startup SPARKZ Inc. has exclusively licensed a battery cycling technology from the Department ...

New piezoelectric material remains effective to high temperatures

Credit: Elizabeth Flores-Gomez Murray, Penn State Piezoelectric materials hold great promise as sensors and as energy harvesters but are normally ...

ORNL receives three 2021 FLC Awards for technology transfer

Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Three technologies developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...

Quantum tunneling in graphene advances the age of terahertz wireless communications

Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Scientists from MIPT, Moscow Pedagogical State University and the University of Manchester have created a ...

Thanks to machine learning, the future of catalyst research is now!

New study defies conventions and proposes a technology-driven method to identify useful catalyst combinationsCredit: JAIST To date, research in the ...

Load-reducing backpack powers electronics by harvesting energy from walking

Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c07498 Hikers, soldiers and school children all know the burden of a heavy ...

A new hands-off probe uses light to explore electron behavior in a topological insulator

Just as pressing a guitar string produces a higher pitch, sending laser light through a material can shift it to ...

Beyond qubits: Sydney takes next big step to scale up quantum computing

In partnership with Microsoft, Sydney scientists have removed a roadblock to scaling up quantum machinesCredit: University of Sydney Scientists and ...

Fine tuned: adjusting the composition and properties of semiconducting 2D alloys

Scientists experimentally realize 2D Si-Ge alloys with tunable electronic properties, getting us closer to a breakthrough in modern electronicsCredit: Picture ...

Novel photocatalyst effectively turns carbon dioxide into methane fuel with light