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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

SDK Group Completes Expansion of Lines to Produce Vinyl Ester Resin and Synthetic Resin Emulsion in Shanghai

Showa Denko expanded production lines to produce vinyl ester resin (VE) and synthetic resin emulsion (EM) in the premises of Shanghai Showa Highpolymer Co., Ltd. (SSHP), a Chinese subsidiary of SDK, and has increased production of VE and EM there, aiming to expand the Showa Denko Group's functional resin business in China.

From Resonac Corporation 15 Jun 2020

Materials Informatics Used to Regulate Thermal Conductivity of Semiconductors

Professor Junichiro Shiomi et al. from The University of Tokyo aimed to reduce the thermal conductivity of semiconductor materials by reducing the internal nanostructure, and successfully minimized thermal conductivity by designing, fabricating, and evaluating the optimal nanostructure-multilayer materials through materials informatics (MI), which combines machine learning and molecular simulation.

15 Jun 2020

New Functional LEDs Printed Using Metal Halide Perovskite

Microelectronics utilise various functional materials whose properties make them suitable for specific applications.

15 Jun 2020

New Gamme-PNA Nanotechnology Enables Self-Assembly in Organic Solvent Solutions

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with gamma-modified peptide nucleic acid, a synthetic mimic of DNA.

15 Jun 2020