Month: December 2019

IMAGE: Fold your own nanocube! Although the nanocubes used in the research project build themselves, you can fold your own using this model. Each yellow X represents locations where researchers at… view more  Credit: Image by Shuichi Hiraoka, CC-BY-ND The process of building a tiny cube has revealed some of the fundamental mysteries of how molecules

A pioneering cloud and global gateway for nanotechnology research and education has received a National Science Foundation grant renewal, completing its 20-year mission while looking to the future to create new technologies. The cloud, known as nanoHUB, was developed through the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) as a virtual society that shares simulation software, data,

Berkeley — If you use a vacuum-insulated thermos to help keep your coffee hot, you may know it’s a good insulator because heat energy has a hard time moving through empty space. Vibrations of atoms or molecules, which carry thermal energy, simply can’t travel if there are no atoms or molecules around. But a new

CORVALLIS, Ore. – An international team co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher has uncovered a better way to scrub carbon dioxide from smokestack emissions, which could be a key to mitigating global climate change. Published today in Nature, the findings are important because atmospheric CO2 has increased 40 percent since the dawn of

IMAGE: This is an artistic illustration of nonclassical effects in nanoscale electromagnetism. When the confinement of electromagnetic fields in nanostructures becomes comparable to the electronic length scales in materials, the associated… view more  Credit: Marin Soljači Research Group More than one hundred and fifty years have passed since the publication of James Clerk Maxwell’s “A Dynamical

IMAGE: The Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society, has selected 58 computing innovators as ACM Fellows. view more  Credit: ACM ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 58 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, combating cybercrime, quantum computing and wireless networking. The accomplishments

IMAGE: Sussex researcher holding a self-adhering medical patch made from scalably printed graphene layer on rubber. view more  Credit: Daniel O’Driscoll Newborn babies, elderly people, sick hospital patients and sports enthusiasts all stand to gain from a breakthrough in the development of wearable technology using nanomaterials from the University of Sussex. Physicist Dr Conor Boland at

IMAGE: Ultrafast pulses of extreme ultraviolet light are created in a gas jet of white plasma, and are visible as blue dots on a phosphor screen as well as yellow beams… view more  Credit: Research to Reality For the first time, researchers have been able to record, frame-by-frame, how an electron interacts with certain atomic vibrations

IMAGE: Comparison of the drag coefficient between the experimental measurement and computational analysis. Variation in the deflection angle of the bristled wing with the airflow velocities of 0.7, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1… view more  Credit: Yonggang Jiang/Beihang University WASHINGTON, D.C., December 10, 2019 – Thrips are tiny insects 2 millimeters long, about as long as four human

Depending on the shape and orientation of their edges, graphene nanostructures (also known as nanographenes) can have very different properties – for example, they may ex-hibit conducting, semiconducting or insulating behavior. However, one property has so far been elusive: magnetism. Together with colleagues from the Technical University in Dresden, Aalto University in Finland, Max Planck

You see them all over city streets: pedestrians wearing headphones or earbuds – their faces glued to their phones as they stroll along oblivious to their surroundings. Known as “twalking,” the behavior is not without its dangers. Headphone-wearing pedestrians often can’t hear the auditory cues – horns, shouts, or the sound of approaching cars –

IMAGE: An illustration shows a battery’s cathode undergoing phase transition from iron phosphate (FP) to lithium iron phosphate (LFP) during charging. Simulations by Rice University scientists showed that adding defects –… view more  Credit: Kaiqi Yang/Rice University HOUSTON – (Dec. 9, 2019) – Here’s a case where detours speed up traffic. The result may be better