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Spinach Could Lead to Alternative Energy More Powerful Than Popeye
July 23, 2014 — Spinach gave Popeye super strength, but it also holds the promise of a different power for a group of scientists: the ability to convert sunlight into a clean, efficient alternative fuel. Physicists ... full story -
The Birth of Topological Spintronics: New Material Combo Could Lead to More Efficient Computers
July 23, 2014 — The discovery of a new material combination that could lead to a more efficient approach to computer memory and logic is the first promising indication that it may be possible to build a practical ... full story -
A Crystal Wedding in the Nanocosmos May Lead to Fast Multi-Functional Processing Units on Single Chip
July 23, 2014 — Researchers have succeeded in embedding nearly perfect semiconductor crystals into a silicon nanowire. With this new method of producing hybrid nanowires, very fast and multi-functional processing ... full story -
Technique Simplifies Creation of High-Tech Crystals
July 22, 2014 — Highly purified crystals that split light with uncanny precision are key parts of high-powered lenses, specialized optics and, potentially, computers that manipulate light instead of electricity. But ... full story -
Quantum Leap in Lasers Brightens Future for Quantum Computing
July 22, 2014 — Scientists have devised a breakthrough laser that uses a single artificial atom to generate and emit particles of light. The laser may play a crucial role in the development of quantum computers, ... full story -
A New Multi-Bit 'Spin' for Magnetic Random Access Memory Storage
July 22, 2014 — Interest in magnetic random access memory (MRAM) is escalating, thanks to demand for fast, low-cost, nonvolatile, low-consumption, secure memory devices. MRAM boasts all of these advantages as an ... full story -
Scientists Use Simple, Low Cost Laser Technique to Improve Properties and Functions of Nanomaterials
July 22, 2014 — By ‘drawing’ micropatterns on nanomaterials using a focused laser beam, scientists could modify properties of nanomaterials for effective applications in photonic and optoelectric ... full story -
Supermaterial Gives Rejected Drugs a New Chance
July 22, 2014 — More than 80 percent of all drug candidates in the pharma R&D suffer from poor solubility and are therefore rejected early in the drug discovery process. Now researchers show that a new material, ... full story -
Bioprinting Methods on 2-D Surfaces to Link 3-D Cellular Structures
July 21, 2014 — New research focuses on the development of a novel, matrix-free method for generating 3-D cell spheroids that are combining knowledge from bioprinting methods on 2-D surfaces to link 3-D cellular ... full story -
Understanding Graphene's Electrical Properties on an Atomic Level
July 21, 2014 — For the first time, researchers have used a cutting-edge microscope to study the relationship between the atomic geometry of a ribbon of graphene and its electrical ... full story -
Chemists Eye Improved Thin Films With Metal Substitution
July 21, 2014 — The yield so far is small, but chemists have developed a low-energy, solution-based mineral substitution process to make a precursor to transparent thin films that could find use in electronics and ... full story -
Carbyne Morphs When Stretched: Calculations Show Carbon-Atom Chain Would Go Metal to Semiconductor
July 21, 2014 — Applying just the right amount of tension to a chain of carbon atoms can turn it from a metallic conductor to an insulator. The research has implications for mechanically activated nanoscale ... full story -
More Than Glitter: How Gold Nanoparticles Easily Penetrate Cells, Making Them Useful for Delivering Drugs
July 21, 2014 — A special class of tiny gold particles can easily slip through cell membranes, making them good candidates to deliver drugs directly to target cells. Scientists can now explain how gold nanoparticles ... full story -
New Drug Against Malaria Effective: Uses Synchrotron Light
July 21, 2014 — The CD27 drug is a true alternative against malaria, researchers now report. They have analyzed the crystalline structure of the DNA with the drug by performing X-ray diffraction experiments at the ... full story -
Tiny Laser Sensor Heightens Bomb Detection Sensitivity
July 20, 2014 — Researchers have created a plasmon laser detector that can sniff out tiny traces of airborne molecules of explosives. The sensor detected both DNT and ammonium nitrate at concentrations below one ... full story -
A Noble Gas Cage: New Material Traps Gases from Nuclear Fuel Better and Uses Less Energy Than Currently Available Options
July 20, 2014 — A new material called CC3 effectively traps xenon, krypton, and radon. These gases are used in industries such as lighting or medicine and, in the case of radon, one that can be hazardous when it ... full story -
Universal Three-Body Relation: Physicists Succeed in Revealing the Scaling Behavior of Exotic Giant Molecules
July 18, 2014 — When a two-body relation becomes a three-body relation, the behavior of the system changes and typically becomes more complex. While the basic physics of two interacting particles is well understood, ... full story -
New Material Puts a Twist in Light
July 18, 2014 — Scientists have uncovered the secret to twisting light at will. It is the latest step in the development of photonics, the faster, more compact and less carbon-hungry successor to electronics. A ... full story -
More Energy from a Liter of Biofuel
July 18, 2014 — Oil produced from biomass -- such as wood chips or plant residues -- seldom has the same quality and energy content as 'classical' crude oil. A new, simple catalyst improves the quality of ... full story -
'Nanocamera' Takes Pictures at Distances Smaller Than Light's Own Wavelength
July 17, 2014 — Researchers have demonstrated that an array of novel gold, pillar-bowtie nanoantennas can be used like traditional photographic film to record light for distances that are much smaller than the ... full story
- Spinach could lead to alternative energy more powerful than Popeye
- The birth of topological spintronics: New material combo could lead to more efficient computers
- A crystal wedding in the nanocosmos may lead to fast multi-functional processing units on single chip
- Technique simplifies creation of high-tech crystals
- Quantum leap in lasers brightens future for quantum computing
- A new multi-bit 'spin' for magnetic random access memory storage
- Scientists use simple, low cost laser technique to improve properties and functions of nanomaterials
- Supermaterial gives rejected drugs a new chance
- Bioprinting methods on 2-D surfaces to link 3-D cellular structures
- Understanding graphene's electrical properties on an atomic level
- Chemists eye improved thin films with metal substitution
- Carbyne morphs when stretched: Calculations show carbon-atom chain would go metal to semiconductor
- More than glitter: How gold nanoparticles easily penetrate cells, making them useful for delivering drugs
- New drug against malaria effective: Uses synchrotron light
- Tiny laser sensor heightens bomb detection sensitivity
- A noble gas cage: New material traps gases from nuclear fuel better and uses less energy than currently available options
- Universal three-body relation: Physicists succeed in revealing the scaling behavior of exotic giant molecules
- New material puts a twist in light
- More energy from a liter of biofuel
- 'Nanocamera' takes pictures at distances smaller than light's own wavelength
- Clearing the way for extremely efficient solar cells: First ab initio method for characterizing hot carriers
- Scientists experimentally re-create conditions deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter and many exo-planets
- When is a molecule a molecule? Scientists watch fast electron jumps in exploding molecules
- Improving the cost and efficiency of renewable energy storage
- Efficient structures help build a sustainable future
- An anti-glare, anti-reflective display for mobile devices?
- Supercomputers reveal strange, stress-induced transformations in world's thinnest materials
- Extending Moore's Law: Shrinking transistor size for smaller, more efficient computers
- 3-D nanostructure could benefit nanoelectronics, gas storage: functional advantages of 3-D boron nitride predicted
- New materials for future green tech devices
- Directly visualizing hydrogen bonds
- Removing disordered regions of shape-shifting protein explains how blood clots
- Fuel cells for powering homes
- Labs characterize carbon for lithion-ion batteries
- Researchers demonstrate novel, tunable nanoantennas
- Squishy robots: Phase-changing material could allow even low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft states
- Nano-sized silicon oxide electrode for the next generation lithium ion batteries
- Quantum computers? First photonic router demonstrated
- Technology produces clean-burning hydrogen fuel cheaply using carbon nanotubes
- Flashes of light on a superconductor
- Pumping efficiency into electrical motors
- Researchers discover boron 'buckyball'
- Deep within spinach leaves, vibrations enhance efficiency of photosynthesis
- Getting a charge out of water droplets: Water jumping from a superhydrophobic surface can be harnessed to produce electricity
- New simple setup for X-ray phase contrast
- Uncertainty gives scientists new confidence in search for novel materials
- Neutron crystallography resolves long-standing molecular mystery
- Silicon oxide for better computer memory: Use of porous silicon oxide reduces forming voltage, improves manufacturability
- Advancing the limits for ultrafast nano-devices
- Speeding up data storage by a thousand times with 'spin current'
- Postcards from the photosynthetic edge: Femtosecond snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation
- First snapshots of water splitting in photosynthesis
- 'Nano-pixels' promise thin, flexible, high resolution displays
- New paths into the world of quasiparticles
- Projecting a three-dimensional future based on nanoantennas
- Chemists develop novel catalyst with two functions
- More efficient fuel cells under developement by engineers
- Highway for ultracold atoms in light crystals
- Even geckos can lose their grip
- Using sand to improve battery performance
- Solar energy gets a boost: 'Singlet fission' can increase solar cell efficiency by as much as 30 percent
- Highly reactive gold carbene complex shines in emerald green
- Nanotechnology: Paving the way for electronic applications
- Solar cells: Powered by nanoholes
- Nano-optics: Getting the most out of tiny lasers
- Plasmonics: Minimizing loss by thinning, smoothing
- Improving the stability of clay for construction
- Silicon sponge improves lithium-ion battery performance
- Orgainic solar modules embedded in glass last longer
- Building much smaller, greener electronics: Atom-scale, ultra-low-power computing devices to replace transistor circuits
- The quantum dance of oxygen: Proposal for a new phase of the element, when atoms dance in quartets
- Solid-state physics: Consider the 'anticrystal'
- Ultra-cold atom transport made simple
- Efficient thermal cooling and heating
- From pencil marks to quantum computers
- With 'ribbons' of graphene, width matters: A narrow enough ribbon will transform a high-performance conductor into a semiconductor
- Tunable quantum behavior observed in bilayer graphene
- Hollow-fiber membranes could cut separation costs, energy use
- How beryllium causes deadly lung disease
- Artificial cilia: Scientists develop nano-structured transportation system
- Researchers invent 'meta mirror' to help advance nonlinear optical systems
- Inspired by nature, researchers create tougher metal materials
- Toward a new way to keep electronics from overheating
- 'Green buildings' have potential to improve health of low-income housing residents
- Squid sucker ring teeth material could aid reconstructive surgery, serve as eco-packaging
- Revolutionary device makes machining composites as easy as ‘cutting through butter’
- 3-D printer to aid the visually impaired students in their educational endeavors
- Making graphene from plastic?
- One of world's thinnest piezoelectric materials identified
- Superconducting-silicon qubits: Using a bottom-up approach to make hybrid quantum devices
- How do ants get around? Ultra-sensitive machines measure their every step
- New metamaterial gives light a one-way ticket
- Bolstering batteries with nanotubes
- Muscle-powered bio-bots walk on command
- Separating finely mixed oil and water: Membrane can separate even highly mixed fine oil-spill residues
- Bringing the bling to antibacterials: New way to combat bacterial biofilm formation with titanium encrusted with gold nanoparticles
- Up in flames: Evidence confirms combustion theory
- Weave a cell phone into your shirt? Engineers envision an electronic switch just three atoms thick
- Scientists discover how 'plastic' solar panels work
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