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Nanocomposite-Based Method to Create Highly Efficient Solar Cells

A new technique to develop unique solar cells could considerably enhance their efficiency.

3 Feb 2021

Rice Chemists Refine the Process of Preparing 2D Nanoflakes

Just a little soap helps clean up the challenging process of preparing two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN).

28 Jan 2021

New Way to Customize Metallic Grain Structures of Nanoparticles

Metallurgists have developed different methods to make a chunk of metal harder than before. They can twist it, bend it, pound it with a hammer, or send it between two rollers.

25 Jan 2021

Exploiting DNA Origami to Build Superconducting Nanoarchitectures

The search for ever-smaller electronic components has made an international research group examine the use of molecular building blocks to develop them.

20 Jan 2021

Molecular Design to Modulate Helical Nanostructures in Liquid Crystal Phase

A team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Yuki Arakawa (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan) has successfully developed sulfur-containing liquid crystal (LC) dimer molecules1) with oppositely directed ester bonds, which exhibit a helical liquid crystal phase, viz.

20 Jan 2021

New Method to Add Electrical Charge to Atomically Thin Graphene Device

At Washington University in St. Louis, a group of physicists has found ways to add electrical charge locally to an atomically thin graphene device by adding multiple layers of flakes of another thin material called alpha-RuCl3 over it.

15 Jan 2021

New Atomically Smooth Silicon Pyramids Exhibit Unusual Magnetics Properties

Home appliances, mobile phones, cars, and other day-to-day technologies have been completely transformed by ultrasmall integrated circuits.

7 Jan 2021

New Design Theory to Control Length of Self-Assembling Nanobots

Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have solved a significant design challenge on the way to regulating the dimensions of so-called DNA nanobots—structures that get assembled on their own from DNA components.

7 Dec 2020

Nanoscale Building Method Could Power Anti-Counterfeiting Tools

Scientists have developed a new nanoscale building technique that could help create exclusive anti-counterfeiting and chemical sensing tools, which can be used with the human eyes.

18 Nov 2020