New organic material unlocks faster and more flexible electronic devices
Credit: Jack Fox, ANU Mobile phones and other electronic devices made from an organic material that is thin, bendable and ...
Tag: Nanotechnology/Micromachines
A nanomaterial path forward for COVID-19 vaccine development
Credit: UC San Diego From mRNA vaccines entering clinical trials, to peptide-based vaccines and using molecular farming to scale vaccine ...
New lithium battery charges faster, reduces risk of device explosions
Researchers at Texas A&M University have invented a technology that can prevent lithium batteries from heating and failingCredit: Juran Noh/Texas ...
A new path for electron optics in solid-state systems
A novel mechanism for electron optics in two-dimensional solid-state systems opens up a route to engineering quantum-optical phenomena in a ...
Tale of the tape: Sticky bits make better batteries
Rice University scientists stick to their laser guns to improve lithium metal technologyCredit: Tour Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 14, ...
Nanoelectronics learn the same way as the human brain
Researchers at TU Dresden and HZDR develop the first neurotransistorCredit: TU Dresden / E. Baek Especially activities in the field ...
Australian collaboration to deliver world-leading gyroscope technology
Coming soon: the world's most precise, compact and cost-effective gyroscopeCredit: RMIT University Australian researchers and industry partners will collaborate to ...
POSTECH solves the durability issue of hydrogen cars
Credit: Yong-Tae Kim (POSTECH) When a bicycle gets wet in the rain, the frame and chain become corroded or rusty ...
Review of progress towards advanced Lithium-sulfur batteries
Credit: Author How should one design porous carbon materials for advanced Li-S batteries cathodes? What electrolytes are extensively studied for ...
Molecularly thin interface between polymers — for efficient CO2 capture membrane
Researchers in I2CNER, Kyushu University discovered the highly selective separation of CO2 over nitrogen in composite membranes with ultrathin layers ...
For next-generation semiconductors, 2D tops 3D
Credit: Jang-sik Lee(POSTECH) Netflix, which provides an online streaming service around the world, has 42 million videos and about 160 ...
Russian scientists have discovered a new physical paradox
Scientists offered their explanation on how to eliminate the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou paradoxCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers from the ...
NUS researchers develop novel COVID-19 swabs to address global and local shortage
Credit: National University of Singapore Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there has been a global surge in demand for nasopharyngeal ...
Microscopy technique reveals nanoscale detail of coatings as they dry
In paper published in Scientific Reports, Lehigh University researchers studying in situ drying behavior of thin film coatings visualize interactions ...
Polarization of Br2 molecule in vanadium oxide cluster cavity and new alkane bromination
Credit: Kanazawa University Alkanes are major constituents of natural gas and oil, consisting of carbon and hydrogen atoms only. The ...
Liquid metal synthesis for better piezoelectrics: Atomically-thin tin-monosulfide
Potential materials for future wearable electronics and other motion-powered, energy-harvesting devicesCredit: FLEET RMIT-UNSW collaboration applies liquid-metal synthesis to piezoelectrics, advancing ...
Brookhaven and Forge Nano to mature noble gas-trapping technology
Through DOE's Technology Commercialization Fund, the national lab-startup team will develop "nanocages" for nuclear applicationsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--A ...
Looking at linkers helps to join the dots
Credit: © 2020 Ahmad R. Kirmani Better understanding the science that underpins well-known techniques for developing quantum dots--tiny semiconducting nanocrystals--can ...
Fishing for a theory of emergent behavior
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba study the collective swimming of ayu fish and quantify the degree of group cohesion ...
Novel “dual-resonant method” in 2D materials can spur advances in the field of photonics
Scientists in Korea explain a new process that maximizes photon conversion in 2D materials, which could innovate photonic-based applicationsCredit: DGIST ...
