Chemical Engineering Professor Tim Bender and Post-Doctoral Fellow Benoit Lessard's discovery of an unexpected side product of polymer synthesis could have implications for the manufacture of commercial polymers used in sealants, ...

Chemistry - Polymers

Apr 05, 2013 3.7 / 5 (7) 0 |

Wouldn't it be convenient if you could reverse the rusting of your car by shining a bright light on it? It turns out that this concept works for undoing oxidation on copper nanoparticles, and it could lead to an environmentally ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Mar 28, 2013 4.5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Electronic computing speeds are brushing up against limits imposed by the laws of physics. Photonic computing, where photons replace comparatively slow electrons in representing information, could surpass ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Mar 27, 2013 4.8 / 5 (12) 1 |

Scientists at the Department of Physics of the University of Oulu have teamed up with scientists in France, Russia and Japan to propose a new experimental method for researching positively charged ions. The study, In the ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Mar 25, 2013 not rated yet 0

Swiss scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties—graphene and molybdenite—into a flash memory prototype that is very promising in terms of performance, size, flexibility ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Mar 19, 2013 4.6 / 5 (25) 5 |

(Phys.org) —University of Oregon chemists have synthesized organic molecular structures that move both positive and negative electrical charges—a highly desired but often difficult combination to achieve ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Mar 18, 2013 5 / 5 (6) 1 |

(Phys.org) —Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, led by lab director Ian Akyildiz, are proposing that a graphene antenna could be built that would be capable of transferring data at the 10 to ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Mar 07, 2013 4.5 / 5 (12) 12 |

A multi-university research team has used a new spectroscopic method to gain a key insight into how light is emitted from layered nanomaterials and other thin films.

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Mar 05, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

Magnetism and electricity are two of the fundamental forces of nature. Combining them in a single multiferroic material in which one controls the other is not only of basic interest, but also relevant for ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Feb 22, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 2

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology show that a recently discovered class of materials can be used to create a new kind of solar cell.

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Feb 12, 2013 4.8 / 5 (11) 20 |

Like turning coal to diamond, adding pressure to an electrical material enhances its properties. Now, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have devised a method of making ferroelectric thin ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Feb 11, 2013 5 / 5 (8) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Exciting the atoms or molecules of a substance via the use of visible light, or photoexcitation, can play a significant role in a range of energy-conversion processes, such as natural photosynthesis ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 11, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0 |

The transistor is the ultimate on-off switch. When a voltage is applied to the surface of a semiconductor, current flows; when the voltage is reversed, current is blocked. Researchers have tried for decades ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Feb 08, 2013 4.7 / 5 (7) 0 |

Sound waves are widely used in medical imaging, such as when doctors take an ultrasound of a developing fetus. Now scientists have developed a way to use sound to probe tissue on a much tinier scale. Researchers from the ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Feb 01, 2013 4.5 / 5 (4) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Two independent groups of scientists in the U.S. and Germany have reduced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) down to the nanoscale, which may enable them in the future to non-destructively detect ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Feb 01, 2013 5 / 5 (8) 1 |