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Eco-Friendly Method to Convert Silicon Waste into Nanoparticles

A new technique for recycling silicon has been developed by researchers from Skoltech and their collaborators from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU).

8 Sep 2020

Titanium Dioxide Nanopillars Control Both Color and Intensity of Incident Light

By shining white light on a glass slide stippled with millions of tiny titanium dioxide pillars, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and their collaborators have reproduced with astonishing fidelity the luminous hues and subtle shadings of "Girl With a Pearl Earring," Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece.

7 Sep 2020

New Nano-Confinement Method Helps Form Sub-Nanometer Reactors for Electrocatalysis

In electrocatalysis processes, single-atom catalysts (SACs) exhibit high potential as they tend to utilize atomic-scale active species to the maximum possible extent.

7 Sep 2020

Autonomous AI System Plays with NanoLEGO

Molecules are the building blocks of everyday life. Many materials are composed of them, a little like a LEGO model consists of a multitude of different bricks.

4 Sep 2020

New 2D Nanomaterial may Help with High-Speed Electronics, Quantum Devices

Purdue University researchers have passed another significant milestone as they work to take a new two-dimensional nanomaterial to market for use in nanoelectronics, quantum devices and infrared technology used in national defense tools and biochemical sensors.

3 Sep 2020

Hydrophilic Vyon® Plastics Demonstrate Outstanding Performance for Drug Discovery Applications

Porvair Sciences reports on testing that demonstrates how its hydrophilic Vyon® porous plastics exhibit outstanding performance in drug discovery applications due to the high hydrophilic void volume conversion of the materials’ pore structure after a special treatment process.

From Porvair Sciences Limited 2 Sep 2020

First Quantum Analyzer Integrating a Full Qubit Readout Setup

The Zurich Instruments SHFQA Quantum Analyzer provides a qubit readout system designed for experimentalists working on superconducting or spin qubits.

From Zurich Instruments AG 1 Sep 2020

Nanohemisphere Arrays can Enhance Quality Factors of Surface Lattice Resonances

Plasmonic surface lattice resonances supported by metal nanoparticle arrays have many merits such as strong field enhancements extended over large volumes, as well as long lifetimes, narrow linewidths, angle-dependent dispersion, and a wide range of wavelength tunability.

31 Aug 2020

Sub-Nanometer Scale Spatial Resolution in Photoluminescence Imaging

Prof. DONG Zhenchao and Prof. HOU Jianguo from University of Science and Technology of China of Chinese Academy of Sciences improved the spatial resolution from 8 nm to ~8 Å of photoluminescence imaging.

31 Aug 2020

New Nanomachine Helps Explore Peptide-Loading Complex Involved in Immune System

An extraordinary nanomachine performed a small but significant step towards an effective immune reaction. Simulations are used by scientists to figure out its operation.

31 Aug 2020

AXT and Delmic Install Unique Cathodoluminescence and CLEM Solution at UTS

AXT and Delmic are proud of a first in the world installation. They recently installed a Delmic SPARC cathodoluminescence (CL) and SECOM correlative light and scanning electron microscope (CLEM) on the same FIB-SEM at the Microstructural Analysis Unit at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).

From AXT Pty Ltd 31 Aug 2020