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Novel Method for Assembling Nanomaterials as Desired

Whether in innovative high-tech materials, more powerful computer chips, pharmaceuticals or in the field of renewable energies, nanoparticles - smallest portions of bulk material - form the basis for a whole range of new technological developments.

31 Jul 2020

Researchers Significantly Improve Process that Leads to Polymers, Plasticizers

Every year, the chemical industry makes trillions of dollars synthesizing the countless chemical compounds we use every day.

31 Jul 2020

Diamond-Based Qubits, Quantum Photonics Help Develop Largest Quantum Chip

An Army-funded project marks a turning point in the field of scalable quantum processors, producing the largest quantum chip of its type using diamond-based qubits and quantum photonics.

31 Jul 2020

Interlayer Coupling in Van Der Waals Material can be Modulated Using Protonic Gate

A Chinese-Australian collaboration has demonstrated for the first time that interlayer coupling in a van der Waals material can be largely modulated by a protonic gate, which inject protons to devices from an ionic solid.

31 Jul 2020

Study Finds Common Chemical Reactions Accelerate Brownian Diffusion

Steve Granick, Director of the IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter and Dr. Huan Wang, Senior Research Fellow, report together with 5 interdisciplinary colleagues in the July 31 issue of the journal Science that common chemical reactions accelerate Brownian diffusion by sending long-range ripples into the surrounding solvent.

31 Jul 2020

New Technological Advances Could Make Wind Energy Viable

Florida is one of several states in the Southeast where wind energy is virtually nonexistent, which is one reason wind farms have not been an economically viable energy source in the region.

31 Jul 2020

A Ray of Sunshine for British Industry During the COVID-19 Pandemic

International manufacturing and engineering company TRB Lightweight Structures is one such company that has continued operating in Peterborough and Huntingdon, as well as in its US facility in Kentucky, and has maintained production and supply for its customers – including Hitachi Rail, CAF and Elekta – despite some of its own suppliers closing.

From TRB Lightweight Structures Ltd 30 Jul 2020

Researchers Solve Representative Model of Cuprate Superconductivity Problem

Forty-five years after superconductivity was first discovered in metals, the physics giving rise to it was finally explained in 1957 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory of superconductivity.

30 Jul 2020

Electrochemical Doping Enhances Properties of Transparent Conductors

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Aalto University have discovered that electrochemical doping with ionic liquid can significantly enhance the optical and electrical properties of transparent conductors made of single-walled carbon nanotube films.

30 Jul 2020

New Method to Fabricate Perovskites as Single-Crystal Thin Films

Nanoengineers at UC San Diego developed a new method to fabricate perovskites as single-crystal thin films, which are more efficient for use in solar cells and optical devices than the current state-of-the-art polycrystalline forms of the material.

30 Jul 2020

New "MechanicalTree" Uses Sorbent Materials to Remove Carbon from Air

A key component of ambient direct air capture systems that remove carbon dioxide from the air is the sorbent material that is used to first capture the carbon and then to release it.

30 Jul 2020

New Fabric Material Cools Wearer Without Using Electricity

Air conditioning and other space cooling methods account for about 10% of all electricity consumption in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

30 Jul 2020

New Alternative Route for Improving Light Extraction from LEDs

Introducing the newly designed 'meta-grid' of nanoparticles into the epoxy casing of light-emitting diodes offers a substantial improvement of their light output, besides increasing lifetime, according to the scientists who invented it.

30 Jul 2020

Lithium Could Help Harvest Fusion Energy on Earth

Lithium, the silvery metal that powers smart phones and helps treat bipolar disorders, could also play a significant role in the worldwide effort to harvest on Earth the safe, clean and virtually limitless fusion energy (link is external) that powers the sun and stars.

30 Jul 2020

Sub Ambient Synthesis of Novel Gold Organometallic Complexes

Asynt reports upon the synthesis of novel Gold (Au) organometallic complexes for use by researchers in the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol (UK) achieved using a DrySyn SnowStorm Reactor and DrySyn Splitter Manifold.

From Asynt 29 Jul 2020