A new look at disordered carbon

Jul 18, 2022 (Nanowerk News) When carbon atoms stack into a perfectly repeating three-dimensional crystal, they can form precious diamonds. Arranged another way, in repetitive flat sheets, carbon makes the shiny gray graphite found in pencils. But there are other forms of carbon that are less well understood. Amorphous carbon...

Intelligent wireless walls for contactless in-home monitoring

Jul 18, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Patient health care strongly relies on in-hospital situation and remote monitoring at home is very challenging. Various human activity recognition systems have been proposed exploiting sensors, cameras and wearables. However, these techniques raise either privacy concerns or discomfort of carrying wearables all the time. These...