Radiation detector with the lowest noise in the world boosts quantum work
The nanoscale radiation detector is a hundred times faster than its predecessors, and can function without interruptionCredit: Roope Kokkoniemi/Aalto University ...
Tag: Nanotechnology/Micromachines
Kent State researcher and professor elected to the European Academy of Sciences
Credit: Kent State University Quan Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow in Kent State's Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, joins ...
Improving neural implants
Pitt bioengineer Xinyan Tracy Cui receives $2.37M NIH award to deliver improved neural recording technologyCredit: University of Pittsburgh/Swanson School of ...
Explained: The lifetime of an evaporating liquid drop
Credit: University of Warwick Liquids evaporating into vapour is a daily occurrence, and yet the time it takes a liquid ...
Electrochemistry to benefit photonics: Nanotubes can control laser pulses
Credit: Skoltech An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Laboratory of Nanomaterials at the Skoltech Center for ...
Masashi Watanabe elected to inaugural class of Microanalysis Society Fellows
Professional association honors electron microscopy expert and Lehigh University materials science and engineering professor for outstanding leadership and innovationCredit: Courtesy ...
Watching energy transport through biomimetic nanotubes
Credit: Dina Maniar Scientists from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and the University of Würzburg (Germany) have investigated a ...
Graphene substrate improves the conductivity of carbon nanotube network
Scientists at Aalto University, Finland, and the University of Vienna, Austria, have combined graphene and single-walled carbon nanotubes into a ...
Brain tissue kept alive for weeks on an artificial membrane
Credit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Japan have developed a new system for keeping ...
Army bio-inspired theoretical research may make robots more effective on the future battlefield
Credit: US Army-Shutterstock In an effort to make robots more effective and versatile teammates for Soldiers in combat, Army researchers ...
Lithuanian researchers developed new technology for precision grinding
By experimenting with tungsten carbide a team of researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania, created an innovative technology ...
Physicists couple key components of quantum technologies
Researchers develop an easy-to-produce interface between quantum emitters and nanophotonic networksCredit: J. Olthaus, P. Schrinner et al./Adv. Quantum Technol. Quantum ...
WPI wave motion research may lead to protections for police, missile silos and satellites
Funding from the National Science Foundation will support research of a new class of granular materials that should provide shock ...
Cooling nanotube resonators with electrons
Credit: © ICFO/ C. Urgell & W. Yang Mechanical resonators have been used with great success as new resources in ...
A close up on the real world - atomic migration under ambient conditions
Researchers from Osaka University take a closer look at electrostatically driven reactions at metal surfaces under atmospheric conditionsCredit: Osaka University ...
Smaller than a coin
Credit: ETH Zurich / Pascal A. Halder Nowadays, a mobile phone can do almost anything: take photos or video, send ...
A simple way to control swarming molecular machines
Credit: Daisuke I. et al., ACS Nano. October 4, 2019 The swarming behavior of about 100 million molecular machines can be ...
Modified quantum dots capture more energy from light and lose less to heat
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers discover a new approach for capturing energy from light-generated, 'hot' electrons, avoiding wasteful heat lossCredit: ...
New silk materials can wrinkle into detailed patterns, then unwrinkle to be ‘reprinted’
Scientists engineer on-demand high resolution wrinkling for reversible printing and thermal regulationCredit: Fio Omenetto, Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (October 7, ...
Bacteria trapped — and terminated — by graphene filter
Rice lab adapts laser-induced graphene to remove pathogens from the airCredit: Tour Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 7, 2019) - ...
