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AWI Researchers Discover Record Levels of Microplastic in Arctic Sea Ice
Apr 27, 2018Experts 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 ...
Tags: AWI
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Electrically Driven Single-Photon Emission From Atomically Thin Diodes
Oct 12, 2016The 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 ...
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UCLA Study Finds Multilayer MoS2 as Potential New LED Material
Nov 19, 2015Over 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 ...
Tags: LEDs, MoS2, LED Material
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CNSI at UCLA Demonstrated The First Electroluminescence From MoS2
Jul 27, 2015The 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 ...
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ORNL Combine a Novel Synthesis Process with Commercial Electron-Beam Lithography Technique
Jul 27, 2015The 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 ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, Heterojunctions
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TU/e and FOM Presents a Prototype of a Solar Cell That Produces Fuel
Jul 21, 2015Eindhoven 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 ...
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UCLA Developes a Photodetector That Uses Thin Coatings of Solution-Processed Material
Nov 25, 2014Led 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 ...
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Chemiists Develop a Method for Examining The Inner Workings of Battery-Like Devices
Aug 18, 2014A 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 ...
Tags: MRI, Supercaps, Electrical, Electronics
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UNSW Australia Researchers Invented a New Type of Tiny Lab-on-a-Chip Device
May 7, 2014UNSW 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 ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Chip
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Researchers Have Used Strain to Alter The Light-Emitting Properties of GaAs
Apr 29, 2014Researchers 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 ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
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Photovoltaic Spray Paint Could Coat The Windows and Walls of The Future
Mar 11, 2014(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 ...
Tags: Organic Solar Cells, Heavy Hydrogen, Solar
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researchers developed a new type of low-temperature fuel cell
Mar 6, 2014Although 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 ...
Tags: Hybrid Fuel Cell, Electricity
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Scientists Are Revealing Mysteries of New Materials Using Ultra-Fast Laser Spectroscopy
Mar 1, 2014Scientists 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 ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Researchers Announce a Unique Micro-Robotic Technique to Assemble The Components
Feb 26, 2014Researchers 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 ...
Tags: 3D Printing, Tissue Engineering, Micro-Robotic Technique, BWH
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IBM Has Built on Their Previous Graphene Research and Developed The Best IC Built to Date
Feb 26, 2014IBM 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 ...
Tags: IBM Research, Silcon Technology, IC, THz