A team led by Dr. Shinji Matsumoto, a Senior Researcher of the Magnet Development (Group Leader: Tsukasa Kiyoshi), Superconducting Wire Unit (Unit Director:…
Professor Jie Tang, Group Leader of the 1D Nanomaterials Research Group of the Materials Processing Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, and Mr….
And it’s based on a device found everywhere from kitchens to dorm rooms: a microwave oven.Chemists at Oregon State University have discovered that simple…
A radical new way of making structures visible at the nano level has been developed at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). This new method makes it…
The discovery is reported in the latest issue of Nature Materials.Quantum dots are nanoscale semiconductors that capture light and convert it into an energy…
The Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), an Institute of The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), is collaborating with…
The findings of their work have just been published in a paper entitled “Evolutionary search for superhard materials: Methodology and applications to forms of…
The national Gas Technology Institute (GTI) recently published a test report approving a new technology called PipeMedic that uses carbon and glass laminates…
Semiconductor thin films with special electronic, magnetic or optical functions are widely demanded for technical applications in increasingly smaller and…
Northwestern University scientists have developed new materials that can detect hard radiation, a very difficult thing to do. The method could lead to a…
A team led by Hansan Liu, Gilbert Brown and Parans Paranthaman of the Department of Energy lab's Chemical Sciences Division found that titanium dioxide creates…
Geckos, insects and spiders do even better: They stick to walls and ceilings and move along them. Hair-like fibrils covering their feet allow these animals to…
Graphene is a one-atom-thick layer of carbon that conducts electricity with little resistance or heat generation. After its discovery in 2004 – which earned a…
The Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), a research institute of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), puts…
Hard tissues of organisms, such as bones and shells, are composed of inorganic minerals (biominerals). While these substances are created by biomineralization,…
Geckos are famous for their ability to walk up walls and scamper across ceilings. The dry-adhesive surface of geckos’ toes has inspired many attempts to copy…
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