A hybrid material made from ultrathin graphite foam (UGF) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could be an ideal filler for making composite phase change materials (PCMs) that conduct heat better, according to new experiments by researchers in the US, Italy and the Republic of Korea. The composites have a significantly higher thermal conductivity than those without […]
A technique to authenticate the identity of electronic devices using quantum tunnelling has been developed by researchers in the UK. The idea takes a problem in quantum electronics – the extreme sensitivity of the energy levels of a quantum well to its height and breadth – and turns it into an opportunity for creating a […]
Researchers in the Netherlands and Australia have made the first “intelligent” quantum sensor based on the spin of a single electron trapped in a diamond nitrogen-vacancy centre. The device can measure magnetic fields at the very limits allowed by quantum physics, and if made to work at room temperature could be used to rapidly image […]
The most efficient electrically–pumped light-emitting device made from a single atomic layer semiconductor that works at room temperature has been unveiled by researchers at the universities of Manchester and Sheffield in the UK. The device could find applications in flexible optoelectronics such as LEDs, lasers and photodetectors……… http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/63281 The device
Thanks to a novel combinatorial growth process, researchers at Pennsylvania State University (PSU) in the US are the first to have produced wafer-sized thin films of vanadium dioxide (VO2)
Inspired by origami, researchers at Donghua University in Shanghai, China, have built self-folding paper from nanosheets of graphene oxide. The new paper bends in response to light or heat, can “walk” and even turn corners. The material could be used in a wide range of applications, including sensing, artificial muscles and robotics…….. http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/63120 The graphene […]
Light-responsive nanoparticles that can selectively destroy heart muscle cells while leaving nearby healthy cells intact have been designed by researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbour. The new technique could help overcome some of the limitations of catheter ablation – a common treatment for patients with arrhythmia…….. http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/63125 Sparing fibroblasts and vascular cells
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Despite the intense focus on graphene research in general, the diffusion properties of droplets on graphene surfaces have been studied relatively little. Now researchers have successfully simulated the diffusion of water nanodroplets on grapheme, and observed unusual and exceedingly fast transport…… http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/62950
Forcing semiconductor nanorods to align in a certain way by applying light to them while they self-assemble allows these structures to emit linearly polarized light. This new finding from researchers at the City University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology could help make better optoelectronics devices from these materials………. […]
Researchers in the UK and Russia have shown that electron chirality affects how current flows in graphene transistors. The new work could help make better tunnelling electronics devices from the carbon sheet and could even lead to a new technology, dubbed “chiraltronics”…. http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/62993 Device structure
Researchers at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) are the first to have used infrared nano-imaging to study how surface plasmons (collective oscillations of electrons) propagate in “moiré-patterned” graphene grown on hexagonal boron nitride. The observations, which reveal new collective plasmon modes, could help in the development of advanced plasmonic circuits for novel […]
Researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in the US are the first to have fabricated phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PHOLEDs) that emit both very bright and deep blue light. The new devices fulfill the most stringent requirements for blue pixel displays and other lighting applications…. http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/63009 Electrophosphorescent device characteristics
Since the first reports of atomic force microscopy 30 years ago, single-crystal silicon cantilevers have attracted much interest for high-sensitivity imaging and sensing. The energy dissipation during the cantilever oscillation that is central to these technologies is one of the limiting factors preventing higher sensitivities and spatial resolutions. Now researchers have traced these losses to […]
