A single-layer of tungsten disulfide, a two-dimensional material, was put on a silicon dioxide, a hydrophilic substrate and it showed tungsten disulfide interacting with water…
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Light makes the conditioned liquid crystal move. Credit: Aalto University, Tampere University, Cell Press Researchers trained material the same way as Pavlov trained dogs. Conditioning…
Engineers have characterized the thermal energy conversion mechanism in the lattice of an advanced nanomaterial called chalcogenide perovskite and demonstrated its ‘tunability’ — important for…
Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution. Credit: Marys_Photos; Pixabay Graphene Flagship partners the University of Bologna, Politecnico di Milano, CNR, NEST, Italcementi HeidelbergCement Group, the…
Infrared light is focused onto the sharp metallic tip of an atomic force microscope, enabling the acquisition of vibrational spectra from a graphene-liquid interface. Credit:…
An MIT-invented circuit uses only a nanometer-wide “magnetic domain wall” to modulate the phase and magnitude of a spin wave, which could enable practical magnetic-based…
Schematic design of the electrical sensing region in the microfluidic impedance cytometry device. The lateral position of single particles or cells flowing through the N-shaped…
Qinglan and Cunningham found a way to use nanoantenna technology to harvest light. Credit: Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of…
Researchers have engineered ceramic nanotubes, which act as antennas that use light-matter oscillations to control heat radiation. The design is a step toward a new…
Illustration of controlled rotation of boron nitride (BN) layers above and below a graphene layer introduce coexisting moiré superlattices, which change size, symmetry, and complexity…
This is professor Ernst Bauer in his lab. Credit: TU Wien A new type of material generates electrical current very efficiently from temperature differences. This…
Professor Zhiyong (Richard) Liang and research faculty member Ayou Hao holding pieces of carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites with a protective heat shield made of…
Tiny holes punched into a high-temperature superconducting material revealed that Cooper pairs, electron duos that enable superconductivity, can also conduct electricity the way metals do.…
Tubulane Inspired Ultrahard Polymers Are Full of Holes, but Stop Bullets Better Than Solid Materials
Tubulane-like polymer structures created at Rice University were better able to handle the impact of a bullet than the polymer reference cube at bottom right.…
A nanoreactor developed at Chalmers University of Technology visualizes the activity of individual catalytic nanoparticles. To identify the efficiency of each particle in the catalytic…
Large-scale integrated circuits, LSI, can be used, for example, to power an electrochromic display, itself manufactured as printed electronics. Credit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at Linköping…
Focused laser light generates an optical “tractor beam,” which can manipulate and orient semiconductor nanorods (red) with metal tips (blue) in an organic solvent solution.…
Monash University researchers have gained insights into how nanoparticles could develop a biosensor to prevent deadly diseases contracted on medical equipment, such as catheters. Candida…
Figure (left) Meisje met de parel (J. Vermeer, circa 1665, collection Mauritshuis, The Hague, the Netherlands); (center) chrome nano-dots replica; (right-top) normal image taken under…
A metallic structure etched lasers, right, floats to the top on the water’s surface in professor Chunlei Guo’s lab. University of Rochester researchers, inspired by…