EPFL researchers have showed that a few-atom wide electrical channel can be created within 2D insulating materials. The simulations open new areas for producing new photovoltaic and electronic devices.
The 7th open meeting of European Bioanalysis Forum will be held at the Hesperia Tower Conference Centre, Barcelona, Spain, on the 19-21 November. Peak Scientific is delighted to be exhibiting its comprehensive range of laboratory gas generators at this pharmaceutical industry research and development event.
Researchers from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the Department of Energy have made a breakthrough in comprehending vanadium oxide, a typical transition metal oxide, by calculating the thermodynamic forces that cause the transformation.
Researchers have developed an advanced polymer nanomaterial that is electrically conductive, strong, and yet flexible enough to be folded easily. The material offers a new approach to improve aerospace components, flexible armor, water filtration, and electrical energy storage. The research was a joint effort of the Dalian University of Technology in China and the Drexel University.
By Alessandro Pirolini
12 Nov 2014
Hydro Infra Technologies (HIT), a Swedish clean tech company based in Stockholm, has developed an innovative patent pending approach for neutralizing carbon fuel emissions by generating a novel gas called Hydro Nano Gas ...
Researchers have developed an advanced, all-in-one nanopore battery array that has all the basic components of a battery. This innovation has implications to revolutionize miniaturization and integration of energy storage components. The project was a joint effort of chemists and materials scientists at the University of Maryland.
An international research team from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and North Carolina State University has discovered that high-efficient organic solar cells can be produced cost-effectively and in large quantities by applying temperature-dependent aggregation in semi-conducting polymers. The study was published in Nature Communications.
The international technology group SCHOTT offers a wide variety of specialty glass products for use in touch displays. From cover glasses for large format professional displays in public places to protective glasses for smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks and even control panels and displays in automobiles, the company offers many different solutions.
By leveraging the traits of a biological material and an inorganic material, Sharon C. Glotzer and Nicholas A. Kotov of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, along with their research colleagues, observed the spontaneou...
XEI Scientific Inc. announces the release of the Evactron® EP at the annual meeting of the American Vacuum Society in Baltimore, MD. This provides a new approach to plasma cleaning designed for those in the physics and materials science communities building and using custom-designed vacuum systems.
In order to improve aerodynamic efficiency, researchers have substituted the traditional aluminum flaps found in an airplane with trailing-edge wing flaps that can seamlessly bend and twist during flight.
By Alexander Chilton
10 Nov 2014
Experts will unveil a new 3D-printed model of the heart at EuroEcho-Imaging 2014, the official European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) annual meeting that is set to take place at the Reed Messe Wien GmbH congress centre, Vienna, Austria during 3-6 December.
VpCI®-389 is an environmentally friendly water-based, temporary coating that delivers exceptional multimetal protection for outside applications and salt-spray resistance.
In a study published in the Physical Review Letters journal, researchers from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) have shown the possibility of negative turbophoresis phenomenon. The movement of impure particles or dust in a turbulent flow, in an "impossible" direction is considered as the negative turbophoresis phenomenon.
By Stuart Milne
7 Nov 2014
A team of researchers led by Professor Henning Sirringhaus at the University of Cambridge, have discovered a new class of semiconducting polymers that can efficiently transport electrons despite their disorganised internal structure. Semiconducting polymers are used in flexible LED displays, solar cells and in printed electronic circuits.
By Stuart Milne
7 Nov 2014