Light can trigger coordinated, wavelike motions of atoms in atom-thin layers of crystal, scientists have shown. The waves, called phonon polaritons, are far shorter than light waves and can be "tuned" to particular frequencies and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
When swimming around, bacteria aren't good with the "pool rules."? In small quantities, they'll follow the lanes, but put enough together and they'll begin to create their own flow. In a collaboration between the U.S. Department of ...
An international team of scientists led by physicists from the University of York has paved the way for a new class of magnetic materials and devices with improved performance and power efficiency. Magnetic materials are currently used to ...
Smart Glass - technology globally popular enough. Such glasses have a number of advantages over conventional windows. "Smart" glass does not transmit infrared radiation, it will delay the heat in the room in winter and not let the hot ...
Interview conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, BA Hons (Cantab) What is nanoparticle analysis and what biomedical applications does it have? Nanoparticle analysis is a very important field. Basically, we live in a world that is ...
Tags: Microfluidics, Microscopy, Nanoparticle, Protein
(Phys.org) —From steel beams to plastic Lego bricks, building blocks come in many materials and all sizes. Today, science has opened the way to manufacturing at the nanoscale with biological materials. Potential applications range ...
Tags: Crystalline Structure, DNA, NSLS, virus
(Phys.org) —You use crystals everyday: sugar in your coffee, the active ingredient in hand warmers, maybe a diamond stud in your ear. A crystal is built of atoms arranged in a repeat pattern in all three dimensions. X-rays are good ...
Tags: Atomic Displacement, Crystal, NSLS-II, CSC
lllustration: University of Colorado Boulder Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a model of a thermoelectric material that can insulate itself from heat transfers while still allowing electricity to flow. Such ...
Tags: Nanopillars, Thermoelectric Material, conducting electricity, voltage
On a pound-per-pound basis, carbon nanotube-based fibers invented at Rice University have greater capacity to carry electrical current than copper cables of the same mass, according to new research. While individual nanotubes are ...
The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have co-developed inexpensive material that has the potential to capture and convert solar energy — particularly from the bluer part ...
Tags: Solar Cells, High-Energy Photons
One of the world's most common and costly chemical reactions, corrosion happens frequently at the boundaries between water and metal surfaces. In the past, the process of corrosion has mostly been studied from the metal side of the ...
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(Phys.org)—In 2012,a team of physicists from Germany proposed a scheme for realizing a nanoscale heat engine composed of a single ion.Like a macroscale heat engine,the theoretical nanoscale version can convert heat into mechanical ...
Tags: nanoscale heat engine, nanoscale, quantum heat engines
Diamonds may be a girl's best friend,but they could also one day help us understand how the brain processes information,thanks to a new sensing technique developed at MIT. A team in MIT's Quantum Engineering Group has developed a new ...
Researchers at New York University have developed a method for creating and directing fast moving waves in magnetic fields that have the potential to enhance communication and information processing in computer chips and other consumer ...
Tags: spin wave, NYU, STNO, Nanotechnology
As smartphones, tablets and other gadgets become smaller and more sophisticated, the heat they generate while in use increases. This is a growing problem because it can cause the electronics inside the gadgets to fail. Conventional wisdom ...
Tags: smartphones, tablets, Consumer Electronics