Home > Press > The best semiconductor of them all? Researchers have found a material that can perform much better than silicon. The next step is finding practical and economic ways to make it A team of researchers say cubic boron arsenide is the best semiconductor material ever found, and...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Quantum computer works with more than zero and one: Quantum digits unlock more computational power with fewer quantum particles
Home > Press > Quantum computer works with more than zero and one: Quantum digits unlock more computational power with fewer quantum particles The Innsbruck quantum computer stores information in individual trapped calcium atoms, each of which has eight states, of which the scientists have used up to seven for...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Generating power where seawater and river water meet
Home > Press > Generating power where seawater and river water meet Researchers looked at the different types of materials that can be used in osmotic power generation. CREDIT Nano Research Energy, Tsinghua University Press Abstract:Scientists have known since the 1950s that it is theoretically possible to generate electricity through...
Study conceptualizes energy efficient, wireless charging roads
Jul 23, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Wireless charging roads equipped with energy storage systems are promising electric vehicle solutions by virtue of their strong advantages in time saving and reduced pressure on the existing power infrastructure, according to a paper by Cornell researchers published in Applied Energy ("Efficient energy management of...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Biologys hardest working pigments and MOFs might just save the climate: A range of processes that currently depend on fossil fuels but are really hard to electrify will depend on the development of genuinely clean fuels, and for that to happen, much more efficient catalysts wi
Home > Press > Biologys hardest working pigments and MOFs might just save the climate: A range of processes that currently depend on fossil fuels but are really hard to electrify will depend on the development of genuinely clean fuels, and for that to happen, much more efficient catalysts wi...
Researchers explore a hydrodynamic semiconductor where electrons flow like water
Jul 23, 2022 (Nanowerk News) You don’t normally want to mix electricity and water, but electricity behaving like water has the potential to improve electronic devices. Recent work from the groups of engineer James Hone at Columbia and theoretical physicist Shaffique Adam at the National University of Singapore and Yale-NUS...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: At the waters edge: Self-assembling 2D materials at a liquidliquid interface: Scientists find a simple way to produce heterolayer coordination nanosheets, expanding the diversity of 2D materials
Home > Press > At the waters edge: Self-assembling 2D materials at a liquidliquid interface: Scientists find a simple way to produce heterolayer coordination nanosheets, expanding the diversity of 2D materials This image depicts the formation of the second layer in a heterolayer coordination nanosheet. Cobalt ions pass through the...
New device design brings unparalleled confidence to cell measurements
Jul 23, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Measuring the numbers and properties of cells moving in a stream — a process called flow cytometry — is critically important to diagnostic medicine, pharmaceutical research and biomedical science. Now researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a way to...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: First electric nanomotor made from DNA material: Synthetic rotary motors at the nanoscale perform mechanical work
Home > Press > First electric nanomotor made from DNA material: Synthetic rotary motors at the nanoscale perform mechanical work Image: Anna-Katharina Pumm / TUM Abstract:A research team led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has succeeded for the first time in producing a molecular electric motor using the...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Lithiophilic seeds and rigid arrays synergistic induced dendrite-free and stable Li anode towards long-life lithium-oxygen batteries
Home > Press > Lithiophilic seeds and rigid arrays synergistic induced dendrite-free and stable Li anode towards long-life lithium-oxygen batteries The enhanced lithiophilic properties and the rigid array structure of Al2O3-CNTA/3DG synergistically induce dendrite-free and stable Li anode. The LOBs full battery assembled with the Al2O3-CNTA/3DG-Li anode and CNTA/3DG cathode...