Search results for atomic engineering

Condensed Matter Feb 15, 2024

Innovative technique reveals that leaping atoms remember where they have been

University of Oxford researchers have used a new technique to measure the movement of charged particles (ions) on the fastest ever timescale, revealing new insights into fundamental transport processes. These include the ...

Materials Science Feb 14, 2024

Thermally engineering templates for highly ordered self-assembled materials

Self-assembled solidifying eutectic materials directed by a template with miniature features demonstrate unique microstructures and patterns as a result of diffusion and thermal gradients caused by the template. Despite the ...

Nanophysics Feb 1, 2024

Solving mysteries of metallic glass at the nanoscale

The matter of how metals deform or respond to external stresses has been extensively studied among metallurgists for centuries. When it comes to conventional metals—the crystalline kind with atoms that line up in neat patterns—the ...

Nanomaterials Jan 30, 2024

Ultrathin membranes for uncovering the atomic scale problem in operando conditions

When someone comes up with the word "magnify," it is referring either to making distant objects closer or making small objects bigger on a tangible scale. There is no doubt that the power of magnifying instruments, regardless ...

Nanomaterials Jan 22, 2024

Innovative membrane platform enables analysis 'down to a handful of gas atoms'

Northwestern University researchers have developed a novel method to host gas molecules as they are being analyzed in real time, using honeycomb structures found in nature as inspiration for an ultra-thin ceramic membrane ...

Biochemistry Jan 19, 2024

Novel strategy for ultrahigh density copper single atom enzymes developed for tumor therapies

A research group led by Prof. Wang Hui and Prof. Zhang Xin from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences introduced a new strategy to prepare ultrahigh density copper single-atom enzymes ...

Analytical Chemistry Jan 17, 2024

Researchers develop a low-cost catalyst for green hydrogen production

Electrolysis is a process that uses electricity to create hydrogen and oxygen molecules from water. The use of proton exchange membrane (PEM) and renewable energy for water electrolysis is widely regarded as a sustainable ...

Nanomaterials Jan 3, 2024

A novel avenue for engineering 2D MXene family via precious metals atomic layer deposition techniques

A team of researchers, led by Professor Soo-Hyun Kim in the Graduate School of Semiconductors Materials and Devices Engineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has made significant progress ...

Materials Science Jan 2, 2024

Strategies to engineer metal-organic frameworks for efficient photocatalysis

The ever-increasing global energy shortage and the worsening of the environment urgently require the substitution of conventional fossil-based energy for green and sustainable energy.

Condensed Matter Dec 27, 2023

Engineers pair laser light to crystal lattice vibrations to enhance optical properties of 2D material

Engineers at Columbia University and theoretical collaborators at the Max Planck for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter have found that pairing laser light to crystal lattice vibrations can enhance the nonlinear optical ...

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