Dec 30, 2020 (Nanowerk News) Scientists use incredibly bright and fast pulses of X-rays produced by an X-ray free electron laser to study some of the fastest reactions and processes in materials. X-rays in these experiments can have wavelengths of less than an Angstrommore than one million times smaller than...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Researchers develop new way to break reciprocity law: The breakthrough makes a significant step forward in photonics and microwave technology by eliminating the need for bulky magnets
Home > Press > Researchers develop new way to break reciprocity law: The breakthrough makes a significant step forward in photonics and microwave technology by eliminating the need for bulky magnetsOne-way light transmission. CREDIT Xuchen Wang / Aalto UniversityAbstract:An international research team lead by Aalto University has found a...
Powering up stretchy technology
Dec 30, 2020 (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers led by Michigan State Universitys Changyong Cao has created stretchable energy-storage devices using a specialized printing technology, innovative materials and the centuries-old art of origami. Developing such malleable energy devices will help existing wearable technologies, such as smart watches, become more...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Perfect transmission through barrier using sound: New study experimentally proved for the first time a century-old quantum theory that relativistic particles can pass through a barrier with 100% transmission
Home > Press > Perfect transmission through barrier using sound: New study experimentally proved for the first time a century-old quantum theory that relativistic particles can pass through a barrier with 100% transmissionThe phononic crystals are made by artificially placing the acrylic posts in the special pattern. CREDIT The...
Biotechnologists measure the forces with which algae cells adhere to surfaces and move on them
Dec 29, 2020 (Nanowerk News) How can cells adhere to surfaces and move on them? This is a question which was investigated by an international team of researchers headed by Prof. Michael Hippler from the University of Münster and Prof. Kaiyao Huang from the Institute of Hydrobiology (Chinese Academy of...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Experiment takes ‘snapshots’ of light, stops light, uses light to change properties of matter
Home > Press > Experiment takes 'snapshots' of light, stops light, uses light to change properties of matterAbstract:Light travels at a speed of about 300,000,000 meters per second as light particles, photons, or equivalently as electromagnetic field waves. Experiments led by Hrvoje Petek, an R.K. Mellon professor in the Department...
Detective work in theoretical physics: Researchers publish review article on the physics of interacting particles
Physicists have published a review article on the so-called dynamical density functional theory (DDFT). This is a method for describing systems consisting of a large number of interacting particles such as are found in liquids, for example.
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Scientists suggested a method to improve performance of methanol fuel cells
Home > Press > Scientists suggested a method to improve performance of methanol fuel cellsMetallic glass, microscopic image CREDIT FEFU press officeAbstract:Fuel cells based on methanol oxidation have a huge potential in the motor and technical industries. To increase their energy performance, scientists suggest using electrodes made of thin...
Shapeshifting crystals – Varying stability in different forms of gallium selenide monolayers
Dec 28, 2020 (Nanowerk News) The gallium selenide monolayer has been recently discovered to have an alternative crystal structure and has diverse potential applications in electronics. Understanding its properties is crucial to understand its functions. Now, scientists from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and the University of...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Chemists describe a new form of ice
Home > Press > Chemists describe a new form of iceA novel hydrogen clathrate hydrate CREDIT Pavel Odinev / SkoltechAbstract:Scientists from the United States, China, and Russia have described the structure and properties of a novel hydrogen clathrate hydrate that forms at room temperature and relatively low pressure. Hydrogen...