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Materials Science Apr 4, 2018

Titanium carbide flakes obtained by selective etching of titanium silicon carbide

Metallic conductivity and hydrophilicity of MXenes have established them as electrodes in rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors, as well as other applications, including photothermal cancer therapy, electromagnetic shielding, ...

Internet Mar 28, 2018

Silicon Valley played by a different set of rules. Facebook's crisis could put an end to that

Facebook was 2 years old when it introduced its most transformative feature: a news feed that offered users a running list of updates about their friends' love lives, favorite new bands and latest vacation photos.

Internet Mar 24, 2018

Facebook crisis prompts Silicon Valley soul-searching

With Facebook mired in its worst-ever crisis, the rest of Silicon Valley is looking to come to terms with the dark side of its data-driven business model where tech titans have mined fortunes from what people reveal online.

Materials Science Mar 23, 2018

Researchers make breakthrough in light trapping technology for industrial multicrystalline silicon solar cells

Scientists from the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a low-cost and effective technique to texture diamond-wire sawn (DWS) multicrystalline ...

Nanophysics Mar 23, 2018

High-resolution full color images can be formed using silicon-nanostructure pixels

Color prints produced on contemporary printers have a resolution of a few thousand dots per inch (dpi), but an alternative strategy that harnesses the power of nanotechnology can improve this resolution by an order of magnitude.

General Physics Mar 22, 2018

High-energy ions' movement affected by silicon crystal periodicity

The thinner the silicon crystal, the better. Indeed, thinner crystals provide better ways to manipulate the trajectories of very high-energy ions in particle accelerators. Further applications include materials analysis, ...

Environment Mar 17, 2018

India's Silicon Valley faces man-made water crisis

Every day more than 1,000 water tankers rumble past Nagraj's small plywood store in Bangalore, throwing up clouds of dust as they rush their valuable cargo to homes and offices in India's drought-stricken tech hub.

General Physics Mar 12, 2018

Movable silicon 'lenses' enable neutrons to see new range of details inside objects

You can't see well without lenses that can focus, whether those lenses are in your eye or the microscope you peer through. An innovative new way to focus beams of neutrons might allow scientists to probe the interiors of ...

Quantum Physics Mar 9, 2018

Scaling silicon quantum photonic technology

An international team of quantum scientists and engineers led by the University of Bristol and involving groups from China, Denmark, Spain, Germany and Poland, have realised an advanced large-scale silicon quantum photonic ...

Quantum Physics Mar 7, 2018

Seeing is believing—precision atom qubits achieve major quantum computing milestone

The unique Australian approach of creating quantum bits from precisely positioned individual atoms in silicon is reaping major rewards, with UNSW Sydney-led scientists showing for the first time that they can make two of ...

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