Scientists have used lasers to investigate how water surfaces can be used as a template for the regular arrangement of molecules in production of high-quality monolayers and what physicochemical mechanisms underlie this.
Making a dark human hair transparent, or even an opaque bar of silicon: this optical 'sorcery' is possible by manipulating the incident light. This new phenomenon is called 'mutual extinction and transparency'. Until now only existing in theory, photonics researchers demonstrated the effect with experiments.
Engineers are creating nanostructures of silica with a sophisticated 3D printer, demonstrating a method to make micro-scale electronic, mechanical and photonic devices from the bottom up.
Researchers have proposed a new strategy to investigate the regulation of nanoscale surface energy distribution at the interface layer of organic solar cells.
An international research team has achieved spin-electric control in molecular nanomagnets. This fact offers great advantages when preparing quantum devices based on magnetic molecules.
Teaming up with the cute, half-dead Kitty Q and Anna, the great-granddaughter of Nobel Prize winner Erwin Schroedinger, 'Kitty Q - a quantum adventure' lets young players dive into the mysterious secrets of particles, donuts, coincidences and entanglements.
A discovery of how to build little blocks out of DNA and get them to stick to lipids, the main constituents of plant and animal cells, has implications for biosensing and mRNA vaccines.
Researchers have succeeded in creating a new type of super-stable, durable glass with potential applications ranging from medicines, advanced digital screens, and solar cell technology.
Researchers demonstrated that two dissimilar materials - molecular energetic materials and ferroelectrics - can be combined to obtain a chemically driven electrical energy source with high-power density. They obtained chemically driven electrical energy with a high specific power of 1.8 kW/kg and achieve an estimated detonation velocity comparable to trinitrotoluene (TNT) and hexanitrostilbene (HNS). Such a power source could potentially be employed for on-demand energy sources, ...
Scientists have succeeded in building carbon-based quantum spin chains, where they captured the emergence of one of the cornerstone models of quantum magnetism first proposed by the 2016 Nobel laureate F. D. M. Haldane in 1983.
In the digital age, every byte of data needs to go somewhere - and preferably stay there a long time. In new work, researchers describe a novel storage approach that uses mixtures of seven commercially available fluorescent dyes to save data files.
Researchers have developed an antiviral dressing material with visible-light-activated sterilizing properties that enables physical and chemical protection against viral agents like Herpes simplex. They re-engineered a common additive agent found in sunscreen (zinc oxide) to be self-sterilizing within a non-woven fibrous mats for herpes virus treatment. The self-sterilizing function creates a 'green' associated oxidant hydrogen peroxide (hydrogen peroxide), capable of eliminating harmful ...
