The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular machines, touted to herald a second industrial revolution. Just as the constant miniaturization of the transistor over recent decades has led to mobile phones and other pocket-sized devices with […]
Researchers in the US, Japan and China are the first to have studied the anisotropic light–matter interactions in gallium telluride (GaTe), a technologically important 2D semiconductor with in-plane anisotropy. Thanks to techniques like anisotropic optical extinction and Raman spectroscopy, they have found that the anisotropy is related to various parameters such as GaTe flake thickness, […]
Researchers in Moldova and Germany have made a new type of light-driven micro-engine from arrays of titania nanotubes.
Researchers led by Qiangfei Xia and Joshua Yang at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the US have made a “diffusive” memristor that emulates how a real synapse works. The device could be used as a key element in integrated circuits and next-generation computers that mimic how the human brain works………. http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/66462 Memristor mimics […]
Silica nanoparticles less than 10 nm in diameter in size could be used to kill cancer cells in a process known as ferroptosis according to new work by researchers at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The tumour-killing properties of the particles appear to be intrinsic to the particles themselves and as […]
Researchers in the US have succeeded in making an excellent multiferroic material out of two “failed” multiferroics. The new material, which is made from two types of lutetium iron oxide, could be used in ultra low-power microprocessors, storage devices and next-generation electronics…….. http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/66478 A new magnetic ferroelectric
