Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have recently found record levels of microplastic in arctic sea ice. However, the majority of particles were microscopically small. The ice ...
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The UK's University of Cambridge and Japan's National Institute for Materials Science have developed single-photon emission devices using layers of graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), and transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) [Carmen ...
Over the last decade, advances in the technology of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, have helped to improve the performance of devices ranging from television and computer screens to flashlights. As the uses for LEDs expand, scientists ...
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The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has demonstrated the first electroluminescence from multi-layer molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), which could lead to a new class of materials for making ...
The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has for the first time, it is claimed, combined a novel synthesis process with commercial electron-beam lithography techniques to produce arrays of semiconductor junctions ...
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Eindhoven University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, or TU/e) and FOM Foundation have presented a prototype of a solar cell that produces fuel rather than electricity (Anthony Standing et al., 'Efficient water reduction ...
Led by Yang Yang, the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr Professor of Engineering at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a photodetector that ...
A team of chemists from New York University and the University of Cambridge has developed a method for examining the inner workings of battery-like devices called supercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat ...
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UNSW Australia researchers have invented a new type of tiny lab-on-a-chip device that could have a diverse range of applications, including to detect toxic gases, fabricate integrated circuits and screen biological molecules. The novel ...
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Researchers in Switzerland and Norway have used strain to alter the light-emitting properties of gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowires [G. Signorello et al, Nature Communications, vol5, p3655, published online 10 Apr 2014]. The researchers from ...
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(Phys.org) —Photovoltaic spray paint could coat the windows and walls of the future if scientists are successful in developing low-cost, flexible solar cells based on organic polymers. Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak ...
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Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies cannot directly use biomass as a fuel because of the lack of an effective catalyst system for ...
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are revealing the mysteries of new materials using ultra-fast laser spectroscopy, similar to high-speed photography where many quick images reveal subtle movements and changes ...
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Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Carnegie Mellon University Announce a unique micro-robotic technique to assemble the components of complex materials Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Carnegie Mellon ...
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IBM has built on their previous graphene research and developed what is being reported as the best graphene-based integrated circuit (IC) built to date, with 10 000 times better performance than previously reported efforts. This ...
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