Today, computer chips are built by stacking layers of different materials and etching patterns into them.
Engineering
Jan 28, 2016
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A highly sensitive, wearable gas sensor for environmental and human health monitoring may soon become commercially available, according to researchers at Penn State and Northeastern University.
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 16, 2020
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The rise of the first complex life depended on vital metals brought up to the Earth's surface from far below in vast granite deposits, a new study argues.
Earth Sciences
Aug 7, 2012
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Want a surface that won't get wet? Grab some sandpaper.
Materials Science
Aug 4, 2022
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A team of nanotechnology researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University has used friction force microscopy to determine the nanoscale frictional characteristics of four atomically-thin materials, ...
Nanophysics
Apr 1, 2010
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In every modern microcircuit hidden inside a laptop or smartphone, you can see transistors—small semiconductor devices that control the flow of electric current, i.e. the flow of electrons. If we replace electrons with ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 23, 2019
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Solar power technologies, which use solar cells to convert sunlight to electricity or storable fuels, are gaining momentum in a world looking beyond fossil fuels for its energy needs.
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 18, 2023
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Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany have discovered that molybdenum trioxide nanoparticles oxidize sulfite to sulfate in liver cells in analogy to the enzyme sulfite oxidase. The functionalized Molybdenum ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 30, 2014
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of ancient oxygen levels presents the first concrete evidence that after aquatic plants evolved and boosted the levels of oxygen aquatic life exploded, leading to fierce competition that eventually ...
Researchers from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology report today that they have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin material, ...
Nanophysics
Oct 15, 2014
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