Researchers use simulations to identify previously undiscovered semiconductors with promising attributes for optical and electronic applications. A nitride among those proposed has been successfully fabricated using high-pressure ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jun 21, 2016
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By doping a thermoelectric material with minute amounts of sulfur, a team of researchers has found a new path to large improvements in the efficiency of materials for solid-state heating and cooling and waste energy recapture. ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 20, 2016
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A joint research team consisting of Hiroshi Sakuma, senior researcher, Functional Geomaterials Group, Environment and Energy Materials Division, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, and Masahiro Ichiki, ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 17, 2016
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You may have heard of graphene, a sheet of pure carbon, one atom thick, that's all the rage in materials-science circles, and getting plenty of media hype as well. Reports have trumpeted graphene as an ultra-thin, super-strong, ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 15, 2016
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A new type of electronic sensor that might be used to quickly detect and classify bacteria for medical diagnostics and food safety has passed a key hurdle by distinguishing between dead and living bacteria cells.
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 14, 2016
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As anyone who has held a laptop computer or cell phone knows, they produce heat that has the potential to damage the microchips inside. However, layered, crystalline black phosphorus could lead to a new microchip design that ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 13, 2016
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Although proteins are usually electrically insulating, hair-like nanoscale filaments (called pili) on the surface of Geobacter bacteria exhibit metallic-like conductivity. To understand why pili are conductive, scientists ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 7, 2016
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Discovered just five years ago, topological semimetals are materials with unusual physical properties that could make them useful for future electronics.
Condensed Matter
Jun 6, 2016
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Recent research has shown that adding nanoparticles to liquids significantly enhances some of their properties. "Nanofluids" have been synthesised using carbon nanotubes and various metallic, oxide and ceramic nanoparticles. ...
Nanomaterials
May 20, 2016
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Electronic materials have been a major stumbling block for the advance of flexible electronics because existing materials do not function well after breaking and healing. A new electronic material created by an international ...
Nanomaterials
May 16, 2016
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