Nanotechnology/Micromachines

'Green' process promises pristine graphene in bulk using waste food, plastic and other materialsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 27, 2020) - That banana peel, turned into graphene, can help facilitate a massive reduction…

UC Riverside-led research has applications in ultrafast and spin-based nanoscale devicesCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A team of physicists has discovered an electrical detection method for terahertz…

Led by the URV researcher Vladimir Baulin, this study has also discovered a new role of cholesterol that will help to understand the development of some diseases and cell processesCredit: URV Cholesterol is crucial to the formation of the…

Credit: Quantum Flagship, Graphene Flagship, Human Brain Project, Battery 2030+ The world is moving at full speed, pushing forward an amazing wave of novel and disruptive technologies that will change the way we see, move, behave…

New research exposes security risk for e-scooters and ridersCredit: Photo by MusicFox Fx on Unsplash (San Antonio -- January 27, 2020) Micromobility vehicles, such as e-scooters, zip in and out of traffic. In San Antonio alone, over…

A team from Wits (South Africa) and HUST (China) show that multi-dimensional quantum communications with twisted light is possible down legacy fiber networksCredit: Wits University New research done at the University of the…

New touch-responsive technology is 100 times thinner than existing touchscreen materials and so pliable it can be rolled up like a tubeCredit: RMIT University Researchers have developed an ultra-thin and ultra-flexible electronic material…

Credit: Schaak Laboratory, Penn State Using straightforward chemistry and a mix-and-match, modular strategy, researchers have developed a simple approach that could produce over 65,000 different types of complex nanoparticles, each…

Credit: Christopher Tison and Michael Fanto/Air Force Research Laboratory. A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has conducted a series of experiments to gain a better understanding of quantum mechanics…

Chad Mirkin, director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University, is the winner of the 2020 Philip Hauge Abelson Prize, which is presented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to a…