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New Technique to Super Charge Silicon Batteries Using Nanoparticles

There is a progressively increasing need for larger high-performance batteries as the world tries to move towards renewable energy from fossil fuels, but at the same time depending a lot more on energy-guzzling devices.

7 Sep 2017

Transparent Nanopaper Holds Promise for Developing Foldable Smartphones

According to a research paper published today, conductive, transparent paper may soon be used for transparent touchscreens, foldable computers, or digital camouflage clothing.

5 Sep 2017

Nanodiamonds Curtail Electrochemical Deposition that Leads to Short-Circuiting of Lithium Ion Batteries

Lithium-ion batteries have been behind a number of recent fires and meltdowns due to short-circuiting in mobile devices despite being extensively used in mobile devices from laptops to cell phones and are also considered to have one of the longest lifespans of commercial batteries today.

28 Aug 2017

New Technique to Create Semiconducting Nanocrystals for LED Displays

LMU researchers have made it possible to tweak the color of light emitted by an LED by modifying the size of their semiconductor crystals. They recently discovered a clever and cost-effective way of accomplishing this, which lends itself to mass-scale production.

8 Aug 2017

MIT Researchers Use Graphene to Create Transparent, Flexible Solar Cells

MIT has come up with a new flexible, transparent solar cell which would make it possible for solar cells to be used in numerous items around us in the near future – in cell phones and laptops, on windows and walls, and more.

31 Jul 2017

Researchers Aim to Create Graphene-Based Electronic Devices

Important electronic components, such as tunnel barriers and diodes, can be integrated into single graphene wires (nanoribbons) with atomic precision. The aim is to make graphene-based electronic devices with very fast operational speeds.

26 Jul 2017

$Physicists Look for Materials with High Refractive Index for Developing Nanoantennas$

Physicists Look for Materials with High Refractive Index for Developing Nanoantennas

Physicists from MIPT and ITMO University have performed a comparative analysis of a wide array of materials to ascertain whether they can be used for dielectric nanophotonics.

24 Jul 2017

Researchers Develop Innovative Technique for Synthesizing MoS2

Oxford Instruments has succeeded in commercializing wafer-scale fabrication technology for 2D material MoS2 by employing the world’s first non-destructive quality control method from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

12 Jul 2017

Tapping Electron Spin in Graphene to Develop Ambient-Temperature Field-Effect Transistor

A graphene-based spin field-effect transistor with the ability to function at ambient temperature has been developed by Graphene Flagship researchers from the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

6 Jul 2017

New 3D Chip Incorporates Data Storage and Computing

As embedded intelligence is gradually moving into more and more areas of day-to-day life, fields spanning from personalized medicine to autonomous driving are producing massive quantities of data. But just as the overflow of data is touching huge proportions, the ability of computer chips to process it into valuable information is delaying.

6 Jul 2017