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New Copper-Carbon Nanotube Composite with Improved Properties for Use in Electric Vehicles

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used new techniques to create a composite that increases the electrical current capacity of copper wires, providing a new material that can be scaled for use in ultra-efficient, power-dense electric vehicle traction motors.

22 Sep 2020

Peptide-Based Organic Materials Show Promise for Energy Harvesting Applications

Nanogenerators capable of converting mechanical energy into electricity are typically made from metal oxides and lead-based perovskites.

16 Sep 2020

CityU Develops Graphene Face Masks with Excellent Anti-Bacterial Efficiency

Face masks have become an important tool in fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic. However, improper use or disposal of masks may lead to "secondary transmission".

11 Sep 2020

RUDN Chemists Create New Type of 2D Nanofilm from an Organic Material

A chemist from RUDN University together with colleagues created a new type of two-dimensional nanofilm from an organic material called calixarene.

10 Sep 2020

Researchers Discover What Makes Vanadium Dioxide Films Conduct Electricity

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the RAS Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics have discovered what makes vanadium dioxide films conduct electricity.

9 Sep 2020

New Minuscule Instrument to Detect Extremely Faint Magnetic Fields

Physicists at the University of Basel have developed a minuscule instrument able to detect extremely faint magnetic fields.

9 Sep 2020

Scientists Develop New Method of Silicon Recycling

Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University have developed a new method of silicon recycling.

9 Sep 2020

Nanophotonics Enables Tunable Excitation of Spin Waves

Physicists from MIPT and the Russian Quantum Center, joined by colleagues from Saratov State University and Michigan Technological University, have demonstrated new methods for controlling spin waves in nanostructured bismuth iron garnet films via short laser pulses.

9 Sep 2020

Surfaces Containing Ledges can Act as Reusable Templates for Nanoelectronic Components

Semiconductor manufacturers are paying more attention to two-dimensional materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides, following the discovery, at KAUST, of an epitaxial growth process of single-crystal TMDs nanoribbons.

9 Sep 2020