Material Science & Technology

In a study recently published in ACS Nano, a research group led by Prof. DU Haifeng and Dr. TANG Jin from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Hefei Institutes...

Researchers from the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University  (SPbPU) proposed a new approach to describe the interaction of metals with electromagnetic fluctuations (i.e., with random bursts of electric...

Nanophotonic integration for simultaneously controlling a large number of quantum mechanical spins in nanodiamonds. Courtesy: P. Schrinner/AG Schuck. Using modern nanotechnology, it is possible nowadays to produce structures which have...

Plastic waste comes back in black as pristine graphene, thanks to ACDC. That’s what Rice University scientists call the process they employed to make efficient use of waste plastic that...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust,...

Though we may not always realize it, photodetectors contribute greatly to the convenience of modern life. Also known as photosensors, photodetectors convert light energy into electrical signals to complete tasks...

Using an elaborate process, the research team has joined two polymers at the nanoscale in a flowing process: The transition from PV3D3 to Teflon (PTFE) in the scanning electron microscope...

A new study published in Nature Materials, an international multidisciplinary collaboration led by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), discovered a chemical structure behind defects in white graphene (hexagonal boron...

Figure 1. Field Emission-Scanning Electron Microscope images of copper nanoparticles and of the synthesized diamond-like carbon fiber film, and a High-Resolution transmission electron microscope image of a single nanofiber. Courtesy:...

Scientists develop a simple and scalable strategy to produce resin films with anti-reflective nanostructures－inspired by eyes of moths. There is a huge number of human problems that scientists and engineers...