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KAUST Team Develops Water-Stable, N-Doped Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Doping is commonly used to improve performance in semiconducting devices but has not previously been successful for electron transporting or n-type, organic electronic materials.

16 Jun 2020

Researchers Fabricate First-Ever Quantum Phase Battery Using InAs Nanowire

Batteries belongs to everyday life. A classical battery, the Volta´s pile, converts chemical energy into a voltage, which can power electronic circuits.

16 Jun 2020

Researchers Visualize Melting Process of Crystalline Solids

The introduction of topology, a branch of mathematics focusing on the properties of "knots", into physics has inspired revolutionary concepts such as topological phases of matter and topological phase transitions, which results in the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016.

16 Jun 2020

Study Reports First-Ever Experimental Observation of Plasmon Nanojet

Russian and Danish researchers have made a first-ever experimental observation of a plasmon nanojet.

16 Jun 2020

Researchers Observe Recoil of Pressure Exerted by Light

Light exerts a certain amount of pressure onto a body: sun sails could thus power space probes in the future.

16 Jun 2020

New Scalable Method to Create Customizable Nanocarbons On-Demand

Fabrication of flexible and wearable electronics often requires integrating various types of advanced carbon nanomaterials - such as graphene, nanotubes, and nanoporous carbon - because of their remarkable electrical, thermal, and chemical properties.

16 Jun 2020

Impurities in 2D Materials can Cause Melting to Start Earlier than Predicted

In 1972, physicists J. Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless published a groundbreaking theory of how phase changes could occur in two-dimensional materials.

16 Jun 2020

New Tool Uses Jenga Game to Explain Electrochemistry of Li-Ion Batteries

Tower block games such as Jenga can be used to explain to schoolchildren how lithium-ion batteries work, meeting an educational need to better understand a power source that has become vital to everyday life.

16 Jun 2020

Sustainable Recycling of CO2 into Useful Fuels and Chemicals

Carbon dioxide is essential to plant and animal life, but in excess it negatively impacts the environment by absorbing and radiating heat in the atmosphere, contributing to global warming.

16 Jun 2020

New Models of 2D Materials Could Help Manipulate Excitons in Useful Ways

Mixing and matching computational models of 2D materials led scientists at Rice University to the realization that excitons -- quasiparticles that exist when electrons and holes briefly bind -- can be manipulated in new and useful ways.

16 Jun 2020

Study Tests Effect of Environmental Factors on Plastic Degradation

Many of us have seen informational posters at parks or aquariums specifying how long plastics bags, bottles, and other products last in the environment.

16 Jun 2020

New Technique to Create Switches Within a Computer's Processing Chips

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated a potentially new way to make switches inside a computer's processing chips, enabling them to use less energy and radiate less heat.

16 Jun 2020

Study Reveals Noncyclic 3D Structure of Water Clusters

Water and its interactions with other substances are essential to human life. However, understanding the structure of liquid water and its hydrogen-bonding networks has been a challenge.

16 Jun 2020

New 3D-Printable Bio-Ink to Print Tissues Directly in Body

In the TV series Westworld, human body parts are built on robotic frames using 3D printers. While still far from this scenario, 3D printers are being increasingly used in medicine.

16 Jun 2020

Element Six Launches DNV-B1™ – Its First Commercially-Available, General-Purpose Quantum Grade Diamond

Element Six, part of the De Beers Group, is launching its first commercially-available, general-purpose chemical vapour deposition (CVD) quantum grade diamond, DNV-B1™. DNV-B1™, the first solution in Element...

From Element Six 15 Jun 2020