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Optimizing the Growth of Coatings on Nanowire Catalysts

Solar energy harvested by semiconductors—materials whose electrical resistance is in between that of regular metals and insulators—can trigger surface electrochemical reactions to generate clean and sustainable fuels such as hydrogen. Highly stable and active catalysts are needed to accelerate these reactions, especially to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen.

10 Jul 2019

New Method to Improve Mechanical Properties of Recyclable Nanocomposite

László Szabó and Kenji Takahashi and colleagues at Kanazawa University and Kanazawa Institute of Technology demonstrated that irradiating short carbon fiber thermoplastics with an electron beam can improve their mechanical properties.

9 Jul 2019

Direct After-Fabrication Tailoring of MoS2-FET transistors

Transition metal dichalcogenides are discrete 2D atomically thin layers bound together by Van der Waals forces.

9 Jul 2019

Replicating Nanoscale Fluid-Transporting Structures of Desert Lizards

EU-funded LINABIOFLUID scientists studied desert-dwelling horned lizards by using electron microscopes.

8 Jul 2019

Spontaneous Synchronisation Achieved at the Nanoscale

Researchers from the ICN2 Phononic and Photonic Nanostructures Group have led a research which synchronised for the first time a couple of optomechanical oscillators.

5 Jul 2019

Nanoscale Pendulum Coupling Illustrated in New Research

In 1665, Lord Christiaan Huygens discovered that two pendulum clocks, placed in the same wooden structure, oscillated spontaneously and impeccably in line but in opposite directions: the clocks oscillated in anti-phase.

3 Jul 2019

Tiny Supersonic Jet Injector Speeds up Nanoscale Additive Manufacturing

Scientists have significantly quickened the fabrication of nanoscale structures by energizing precursor molecules using a minute, high-energy supersonic jet of inert gas.

3 Jul 2019

Researchers Develop Nanobio-Hybrid Microbes Capable of Converting CO2 Into Plastics

CU Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals.

29 Jun 2019

Low-Temperature Method to Make High-Performance Thermoelectric Materials

A low-cost nanomaterial created at KAUST could be used to recapture some of the enormous amounts of waste heat that devices and machines emit.

28 Jun 2019

Making Music from Proteins (Video)

Composers string notes of different pitch and duration together to create music. Similarly, cells join amino acids with different characteristics together to make proteins.

27 Jun 2019