Quantum communication moves forward
Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara have made a nanomechanical device that can convert electrical quantum signals into optical quantum ones.
Technology Update
Technology Update
Adding holes to graphene
Graphene (a sheet of carbon just one atom thick) can be successfully p-doped with boron, according to new experiments by researchers at Columbia University in the US.
Nanogaps intensify terahertz waves
Using a technique known as atomic layer deposition and, surprisingly, a roll of sticky tape, researchers from the US and Korea have come up with a new technique to produce extremely thin gaps in metal layers.
Islands in the sea configuration exposes platinum nanoparticles
A sinter-resistant, tri-phasic catalyst made of platinum (Pt), titanium dioxide (TiO2), and silica (SiO2) has been developed by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US.
Colloidal zinc phosphide for photovoltaics
Researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada are the first to have succeeded in synthesising colloidal zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) semiconducting nanocrystals
On the road to transparent, flexible computers
A new, low-cost, state-of-the-art CMOS compatible process to make flexible and semi-transparent silicon-based circuits has been unveiled by researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia
Defects help enhance photoluminescence in 2D semiconductors
Defects are generally thought to degrade a material’s physical properties, but new experiments by researchers in the US and China have revealed that they can actually help certain 2D semiconductors
Sizing up nanocrystals in phase transformations
Particle size is more important than previously believed when it comes to nanocrystal phase transformations.
A piano for electrons in a carbon nanotube
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have developed a nanoassembly technique that has allowed them to create new types of electronic devices using carbon nanotubes.
Porous polymers made simple
Researchers at Cornell University in the US have put forward a new and simple way to fabricate “hierarchical” porous polymers in a single step.
Skyrmion spin control could help speed up digital electronics
Researchers at the University of Hamburg in Germany have succeeded in controlling tiny magnetic spin patterns known as “skyrmions” for the first time.
New form of ice seen in graphene interlayers
A novel type of “bilayer” ice can form between stacked layers of graphene oxide according to new work by researchers at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study and Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
Nanoantennas monitor biomolecular interactions
Monitoring biomolecular interactions in real time may have just become a lot easier with the first plasmonic chip
Making narrow nanoribbons the easy way
Researchers at Rice University have developed a new top-down method to make very narrow nanoribbons from graphene (a 2D sheet of carbon just one atom thick).
Chlorine has got graphene covered
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US are reporting on a new way to p-dope graphene that does not sacrifice its excellent electronic properties
Printing nanosilver onto fibres could pave the way for flexible, wearable electronics
Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK’s National Measurement Institute, have developed a way to print silver directly onto fibres.
Nano scientists reach the holy grail in label-free cancer marker detection: single molecules
Just months after setting a record for detecting the smallest single virus in solution, researchers have announced a new breakthrough:
Plasma-treated nano filters help purify world water supply
Access to safe drinking water is a step closer to being a reality for those in developing countries, thanks to new research published in Nature Communications
Raising the IQ of smart windows with nanocrystals
Researchers have designed a new material to make smart windows even smarter.
Wigner molecule appears in carbon nanotube
Researchers in Israel, the US and Italy, say that they have observed a “Wigner molecule” in an ultraclean carbon nanotube.
Piezophototronics makes highly sensitive skin-like sensor
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made the first skin-like sensor array from individual-nanowire