Australian researchers have developed a molecular-sized, more efficient version of a widely used electronic sensor, in a breakthrough that could bring widespread benefits.
Bio & Medicine
Oct 3, 2023
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Air conditioning and other space cooling methods account for about 10% of all electricity consumption in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials ...
Materials Science
Jul 29, 2020
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The most economical way to kill bacteria that cause common food-borne illnesses—mostly caused by Salmonella enterica—is heat, but, the mechanisms that kill Salmonella at lower temperatures were not fully understood until ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2018
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have engineered a range of new single-walled transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanotubes with different compositions, chirality, and diameters by templating off boron-nitride ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 16, 2023
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(PhysOrg.com) -- German scientists discover surprising transport phenomena in ultracold quantum many body systems.
Quantum Physics
Mar 5, 2012
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Making a paper airplane in school used to mean trouble. Today it signals a promising discovery in materials science research that could help next-generation technology -like wearable energy storage devices- get off the ground. ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 11, 2014
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Less than a micrometre thin, bendable and giving all the colours that a regular LED display does, it still needs ten times less energy than a Kindle tablet. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed ...
Engineering
Oct 14, 2016
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Kansas State University engineers think the possibilities are deep for a very thin material.
Bio & Medicine
Apr 13, 2009
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We study the movement of incredibly small things. How small is small? Think smaller than "nano." Think smaller than atoms themselves. We measure the infinitesimally small shifts in the positions of atoms to electrical forces. ...
Nanophysics
Sep 18, 2013
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You don't normally want to mix electricity and water, but electricity behaving like water has the potential to improve electronic devices. Recent work from the groups of engineer James Hone at Columbia and theoretical physicist ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 20, 2022
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