Rice’s Haotian Wang wins Packard fellowship
Five-year grant will support technology to turn greenhouse gases into fuelCredit: Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 15, 2020) -Haotian Wang ...
Tag: Nanotechnology/Micromachines
Quantum engines with entanglement as fuel?
University of Rochester researcher receives $1 million grant to study quantum thermodynamicsCredit: University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster ...
What laser color do you like?
Microchip devices produce a wide range of huesCredit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and ...
COVID-19 rapid test has successful lab results, research moves to next stages
University of Nevada, Reno engineers and virologists team up for novel approachCredit: Photo courtesy of University of Nevada, Reno. RENO, ...
Wearable circuits printed directly on human skin
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c11479 Wearable electronics are getting smaller, more comfortable and increasingly ...
Controlling the speed of enzyme motors brings biomedical applications of nanorobots closer
Recent advances in this field have made micro- and nanomotors promising devices for solving many biomedical problemsCredit: CNIC/ IBEC A ...
Well-formed disorder for versatile light technologies
Credit: ETH Zurich / Jolanda Mueller From microscopes to data transfer via optical fibres all the way to modern quantum ...
The perfect angle for e-skin energy storage
The trick to extremely thin supercapacitors with improved performance is spraying graphene ink at an angle.Credit: DGIST Materials scientists Sungwon ...
A new strategy for the synthesis of crystalline graphitic nanoribbons
Credit: Peijie Zhang New work from a team of scientists led by Drs. Kuo Li and Haiyan Zheng from the ...
Finding the right colour to control magnets with laser pulses
Credit: Lancaster University Scientists have discovered a new way to manipulate magnets with laser light pulses shorter than a trillionth ...
Multi-state data storage leaving binary behind
Stepping 'beyond binary' to store data in more than just 0s and 1sCredit: Pixabay: Akela999 Electronic data is being produced ...
Surface waves can help nanostructured devices keep their cool
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan -- The continuing progress in miniaturization of silicon microelectronic ...
New virtual reality software allows scientists to ‘walk’ inside cells
Credit: Alexandre Kitching Virtual reality software which allows researchers to 'walk' inside and analyse individual cells could be used to ...
Liquid metals come to the rescue of semiconductors
Possible pathway to fast-switching, ultra-low energy electronics based on 2D materialsCredit: FLEET Moore's law is an empirical suggestion describing that ...
New NIST project to build nano-thermometers could revolutionize temperature imaging
Cheaper refrigerators? Stronger hip implants? A better understanding of human disease? All of these could be possibleCredit: A. Biacchi/NIST Cheaper ...
What tiny surfing robots teach us about surface tension
Credit: Saeed Jafari Kang and Hassan Masoud/Michigan Tech Spend an afternoon by a creek in the woods, and you're likely ...
Graphene microbubbles make perfect lenses
New method generates precisely controlled graphene microbubbles with perfectly spherical curvature for lensesCredit: H. Lin et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.2.5.055001. Tiny ...
Bacterial cellulose degradation system could give boost to biofuels production
Credit: NINS/IMS Efforts to find ways to break down cellulose, the tough stuff that makes up plant cell walls, faster ...
An electrical trigger fires single, identical photons
The precisely controlled photon source, made from an atomically thin semiconducting material, could aid the development of advanced quantum communicationCredit: ...
Scientists developed key principles for creating an artificial vessel
Researchers implanted a polymer scaffold as a vascular prosthesis into the rat abdominal aorta and monitored the process of its ...
