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Researchers Extend 4D Printing to New Applications in Nanophotonics

The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and its research collaborators have successfully demonstrated the four-dimensional (4D) printing of shape memory polymers in submicron dimensions which are comparable to the wavelength of visible light. This novel development has allowed researchers to now explore new applications in the field of nanophotonics.

25 Jan 2021

Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Used to Design Low-Cost Electricity Storage System

In association with Imperial College London, researchers from WMG Energy Innovation Centre at the University of Warwick have identified a new way to improve hybrid flow batteries and their commercial applications.

25 Jan 2021

Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscope Used to Improve Lithium Battery Performance

Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) are extensively used in various day-to-day products, like cell phones, hybrid cars, etc.

15 Jan 2021

New Study Could Revolutionize the Field of Fluorescence Lifetime Microscopy

Fluorescence microscopy is widely used in biochemistry and life sciences because it allows scientists to directly observe cells and certain compounds in and around them.

4 Jan 2021

Study Helps Understand How Light and Matter Interact at the Nanoscale

A group of researchers has now resolved the longstanding question of how electrons move collectively as a group within cylindrical nanoparticles.

17 Dec 2020

Nature's Ubiquitous Weak Force can Indent Rigid Nanosheets

You have to look closely, but the hills are alive with the force of van der Walls.

16 Dec 2020

Researchers Observe Second Level of Fluorescence in Carbon Nanotubes

The fact that carbon nanotubes exhibit fluorescence is well known. However, it is surprising and potentially useful to find a second level of fluorescence. A new study has now revealed how that works.

4 Dec 2020

A Single Nanoparticle can Produce Laser Emissions at Low Power

Lasers are used in a range of everyday devices, harnessing the power of light molecules, photons, - lined up to form highly concentrated beams of light - to perform now common tasks such as scanning barcodes and removing tattoos.

2 Dec 2020

New Study Could Help Design Smaller Nanophotonics Devices

The use of barcodes to label and recognize day-to-day items is quite usual similar to a trip to the supermarket. What if those barcodes are shrunk a million times, from millimeter to nanometer scale, to enable their use within living cells to label, recognize, and monitor the building blocks of life, or mixed with inks to avoid counterfeiting.

1 Dec 2020

New Understanding of Light-Matter Interactions in Nanophotonic Materials

Physicists from the University of Konstanz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) and the University of Regensburg have successfully demonstrated that ultrashort electron pulses experience a quantum mechanical phase shift through their interaction with light waves in nanophotonic materials, which can uncover the nanomaterials' functionality. The corresponding experiments and results are reported in the latest issue of Science Advances.

25 Nov 2020