Tag: Nanotechnology/Micromachines

January 24, 2020

A team from Wits (South Africa) and HUST (China) show that multi-dimensional quantum communications with twisted light is possible down ...

Nano-thin flexible touchscreens could be printed like newspaper

January 24, 2020

New touch-responsive technology is 100 times thinner than existing touchscreen materials and so pliable it can be rolled up like ...

A megalibrary of nanoparticles

Credit: Schaak Laboratory, Penn State Using straightforward chemistry and a mix-and-match, modular strategy, researchers have developed a simple approach that ...

Quantum experiments explore power of light for communications, computing

Credit: Christopher Tison and Michael Fanto/Air Force Research Laboratory. A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...

The easy route the easy way: New chip calculates the shortest distance in an instant

Scientists have developed the world's first fully coupled AI chip that can solve the traveling salesman problem for 22 cities ...

Wannier90 program becomes community code in major new release

New functionalities, improvements make it very robust, efficient and feature-richCredit: Valerio Vitale @Imperial College London Wannier functions were first introduced ...

How’re your cells’ motors running?

A new 'molecular nano-patterning' technique reveals that some molecular motors coordinate differentlyCredit: Science Graphics Japan -- Any kind of body ...

Integrate micro chips for electronic skin

Researchers from Dresden and Osaka present the first fully integrated flexible electronics made of magnetic sensors and organic circuits which ...

Deep-sea osmolyte makes biomolecular machines heat-tolerant

Credit: Munmun, T. et. al., Chemical Communications, Dec. 26, 2019 Researchers have discovered a method to control biomolecular machines over ...

Physicists trap light in nanoresonators for record time

The reference particle captured light for a time exceeding 200 periods of one wave oscillation, 20-40 times longer than usual; ...

Less may be more in next-gen batteries

Rice lab tests cells with silicon anodes, aluminum coatings that protect cathodesCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 21, 2020) ...

$2M NSF grant fuels Lehigh U research partnership with Michelin North America, Cornell

Lehigh bioengineering chair Anand Jagota lands university's first LEAP HI GOALI award in support of work on friction that could ...

Designer-defect clamping of ferroelectric domain walls for more-stable nanoelectronics

Improved stability a significant step forward for domain-wall nanoelectronic data storageCredit: FLEET A UNSW study published today in Nature Communications ...

New image analysis method for time-lapse microscopy shows how giant viruses infect amoeba

Scientists at Tokyo University of Science, Japan, devised a new method that reveals how amoebae react to infection by giant ...

Light-up wheels: Unique organic light-emitting molecular emitters

Researchers at Osaka Univ. design and synthesize highly efficient carbon-based 3rd-generation OLED molecular emitters by linking the donor and acceptor ...

New self-assembled monolayer is resistant to air

Buckyballs can pave the way for molecular electronicsCredit: Xinkai Qiu, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen Organic self-assembled monolayers ...

Improved brain chip for precision medicine

January 16, 2020

Device chooses right combo of cancer drugs in record timeCredit: University of Houston The Akay Lab biomedical research team at ...

Colloidal Quantum Dot Photodetectors can now see further than before

January 16, 2020

Credit: ©ICFO Optical sensing in the mid to long infrared (5microns - um) is becoming of utmost importance in different ...

Pretty with a twist

January 16, 2020

Complex porous, chiral nano-patterns arise from a simple linear building blockCredit: Bodong Zhang / TUM Nanoscience can arrange minute molecular ...

Decontaminating pesticide-polluted water using engineered nanomaterial and sunlight