Nanotechnology/Micromachines

Materials that shrink when heated -- changing colour from black to golden -- could save expensive electronics from heat damageCredit: K. Takenaka/John Wojdylo One way that heat damages electronic equipment is it makes components expand…
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Machine learning helps solve a puzzle of how strongly interacting electrons behave at atomic levelCredit: JC Séamus Davis For the last 100 years materials such as gold and silicon have been conduits to the force which has powered…
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The Graphene Flagship participates in a sounding-rocket launch in collaboration with the European Space Agency to test the printing of graphene devices in space.Credit: Christophe Minetti, ULB Graphene Flagship partners,…
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Credit: Image by CUI Jie Prof. LIU Bo and colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) have developed a chiral separation membrane capable of capturing left-handed chiral molecules and releasing…
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Credit: Kanazawa University The living cell can be viewed as a factory where protein machines are in charge of various processes, such as transport of material inside the cell or operations with other macromolecules like DNA. Their…
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Nanofluidic device delivered controlled dosesCredit: Houston Methodist People with chronic diseases like arthritis, diabetes and heart disease may one day forego the daily regimen of pills and, instead, receive a scheduled dosage of…
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Researchers have developed a cost-effective and eco-friendly way of producing graphene using one of Australia's most abundant resources, eucalyptus trees.Credit: RMIT University Graphene is the thinnest and strongest material known…
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Credit: Kobe University Photoreceptor cells in our eyes can adjust to both weak and strong light levels, but we still don't know exactly how they do it. Emeritus Professor Fumio Hayashi of Kobe University and his colleagues revealed…
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Researchers at the University of Surrey believe their tin based perovskite solar cell could clear the runway for solar panel technology to take off and help the UK reach its 2050 carbon neutral goal. As countries look to get to grips…
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Nanophotonic devicesCredit: UT Arlington A research team from The University of Texas at Arlington is working with the Army Research Laboratory to develop nanophotonic devices that could have applications in thermal imaging and…
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Phosphorene shows efficiency promise A nanomaterial made from phosphorus, known as phosphorene, is shaping up as a key ingredient for more sustainable and efficient next-generation perovskite solar cells (PSCs). PSCs which are one of…
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Transistors connected with twisted electrodes maintain functionality even after being bent and washed over 1,000 times and can activate LED or detect electrocardiogram signalsCredit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST) With the…
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Discovery will lead to new methods for materials design It's not an electron. But it sure does act like one. Northwestern University researchers have made a strange and startling discovery that nanoparticles engineered with DNA in…
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Credit: Emberion / Graphene Flagship Emberion was one of the first spinouts of the Graphene Flagship. It was founded in 2016 to take work done in the Graphene Flagship Optoelectronics work package to the market. Emberion's ultra-sensitive…
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