A research team from Caltech and the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has demonstrated a promising way to efficiently convert carbon dioxide into ethylene —…
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Researchers led by Katja Nowack, assistant professor of physics, created this micron-scale Hall-effect sensor by sandwiching graphene between sheets of hexagonal boron nitride, resulting in…
Self-assembled peptides, when aligned, show great promise for electricity generation. Nanogenerators capable of converting mechanical energy into electricity are typically made from metal oxides and…
Dr. Ye’s team uses the CO2 infrared laser system to generate graphene. Experiment results show that the graphene they produced exhibit a much better anti-bacterial…
Magnon excitation. Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Scientists Excite Magnons in Nanostructures With Laser Pulses Physicists from MIPT and the Russian Quantum Center, joined by…
Credit: EPFL 2020 Managing the heat generated in electronics is a huge problem, especially with the constant push to reduce the size and pack as…
Temperature of C. elegans measured via tracking of embedded nanodiamonds. Credit: Masazumi Fujiwara, Osaka City University A team from Osaka City University, in collaboration with…
Illustration depicts a faithful reproduction of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring” using millions of nanopillars that control both the color and intensity of…
Models and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images of various 3D polyhedra that were constructed by connecting the self-linked triangular M-DNA and rectangular M-DNA. From left…
Scientists from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands separate microparticles on the basis of their shape. Credit: TU Delft Scientists in Delft have…
Information is stored by changing the relative position of the metal layer (the gold ball in the figure) with the thickness of three atomic layers.…
Researchers from Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania built microsopic robots that consist of a simple circuit made from silicon photovoltaics – essentially the torso…
A concept image of electronic skin that can sense touch, pain, and heat. Credit: Ella Maru Studio Prototype device electronically replicates the way human skin…
An illustration of how a metalens refracts light. Credit: Giuseppe Strangi & Federico Capasso Case Western Reserve scientists, collaborators at Harvard and Italian university Unical,…
Common whitetail dragonfly. Credit: Christopher Johnson (Insects Unlocked, University of Texas at Austin Scientists reveal how nanomaterials inspired by insect wings are able to destroy…
An artist rendering of a high-Q metasurface beamsplitter. These “high-quality-factor” or “high-Q” resonators could lead to novel ways of manipulating and using light. Credit: Riley…
An artist’s depiction of a Co-LOCKR nano-device coming together on the surface of a cell that has the right combination of cell surface markers. Credit:…
The prototype device non-invasively detects COVID-19 in the exhaled breath of infected patients, similar to a breathalyzer test for alcohol intoxication. Few people who have…
For the first time ever, scientists have witnessed the interaction of a new phase of matter known as ”time crystals.” The discovery, published in Nature…
Global economic growth comes with increasing demand for energy, but stepping up energy production can be challenging. Recently, scientists have achieved record efficiency for solar-to-fuel…