Artificial neural networks have been used to simulate interactions between water molecules and provide important clues about the remarkable properties of this live-giving substance. The study has been carried out by physicists in Germany and Austria, who used the networks to perform simulations 100,000 times faster than possible with conventional computers. Their work offers explanations […]
Researchers in the US have succeeded in chemically assembling the electronic junctions between a 2D semiconductor (molybdenum sulphide) and graphene, and have made an atomic transistor with good properties. They have also assembled the heterostructures into 2D logic circuits, such as an NMOS inverter with a voltage gain as high as 70…………. http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/65627 The graphene–MoS2 […]
A 3D artificial scaffold network made from multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) could help locally “rewire” nerve tissue. This is the new finding from researchers in Italy and Spain, who say that the technology could be exploited as a neural interface to help repair nerve fibres after injury or disease……. http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/65631 3D carbon nanotube framework scaffolds […]
Although using catalysts in production leaves materials prone to impurities, with the extreme temperatures sometimes required for catalyst-free synthesis, their use has seemed unavoidable. Not according to BNNT, a company whose catalyst-free boron nitride nanotube synthesis at the whopping temperature of 4000 °C won this year’s NASA Invention of the Year Award…….. http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/65309 Production engineer […]
By making an optical cavity as small as just 40 cubic nanometres in volume, researchers in the UK have succeeded in mixing light with the optical transition of a single molecule placed inside the cavity so that the two become completely indistinguishable. Such intense cavity/single-molecule coupling could be used to probe the quantum properties of […]
Researchers at the University of Maryland have made the first flexible, solid-state membrane based on a 3D lithium-ion conducting ceramic nanofibre network. The membrane could replace conventional flammable organic liquid electrolyte systems in lithium-ion batteries…….. http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/65338 Solid-state electrolyte
