Proponents of clean energy will soon have a new source to add to their existing array of solar, wind, and hydropower: osmotic power. Or more specifically, energy generated by a natural phenomenon occurring when fresh water ...
Nanophysics
Jul 13, 2016
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Today, computer chips are built by stacking layers of different materials and etching patterns into them.
Engineering
Jan 28, 2016
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Nature loves crystals. Salt, snowflakes and quartz are three examples of crystals - materials characterized by the lattice-like arrangement of their atoms and molecules.
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 25, 2015
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What if peanut brittle, under certain conditions, behaved like taffy? Something like that happens to a two-dimensional dichalcogenide analyzed by scientists at Rice University.
Nanophysics
May 4, 2015
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In 2013 James Hone, Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia Engineering, and colleagues at Columbia demonstrated that they could dramatically improve the performance of graphene—highly conducting two-dimensional ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 27, 2015
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The relatively recent discovery of graphene, a two-dimensional layered material with unusual and attractive electronic, optical and thermal properties, led scientists to search for other atomically thin materials with unique ...
Nanophysics
Feb 19, 2015
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A door has been opened to low-power off/on switches in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and nanoelectronic devices, as well as ultrasensitive bio-sensors, with the first observation of piezoelectricity in a free standing ...
Nanophysics
Dec 22, 2014
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Rice University scientists who want to gain an edge in energy production and storage report they have found it in molybdenum disulfide.
Nanomaterials
Nov 4, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A little change in temperature makes a big difference for growing a new generation of hybrid atomic-layer structures, according to scientists at Rice University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 29, 2014
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For the ever-shrinking transistor, there may be a new game in town. Cornell researchers have demonstrated promising electronic performance from a semiconducting compound with properties that could prove a worthy companion ...
Nanophysics
Jun 30, 2014
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