Month: February 2020

IMAGE: The new hole transport polymers with ethylene glycol side chains have high solubility in the green solvent and hold lead leaked from the aged perovskite solar cells. view more  Credit: Taiho Park (POSTECH) Solar energy that reaches the Earth is about 125 million gigawatt (Gw). When this solar energy generated for a year is converted

IMAGE: The image is a GIF showing the droplet interaction from underneath. view more  Credit: University of Leeds Cameras shooting up to 25,000 frames a second have been used to capture the moment two droplets of liquid come together and mix – and it is opening up research into new applications for 3D printing. With one

IMAGE: Even with a mesh screen covering an object, (top), Stevens quantum 3D imaging technique that generates images 40,000x clearer (middle) than current technologies (bottom). The technology is the first real-world demonstration… view more  Credit: Stevens Institute of Technology Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have created a 3D imaging system that uses light’s quantum properties

IMAGE: A simulation of 3-nm-grain-sized nickel under strain. Colored lines indicate partial or full grain dislocation. view more  Credit: Zhou et al You can’t see them, but most of the metals around you–coins, silverware, even the steel beams holding up buildings and overpasses–are made up of tiny metal grains. Under a powerful enough microscope, you can

A collaborative team of researchers at Utah State University and the University of Central Florida developed a tool to track cellular events that may lead to obesity-related conditions in people. The research findings were published Feb. 3 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team, led by Anhong Zhou, a professor in

IMAGE: NIST researcher June Lau with a transmission electron microscope (TEM) that she and her colleagues retrofitted in order to make high-quality atom-scale movies. view more  Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have developed a way to retrofit the transmission electron microscope — a long-standing scientific

Scientists have developed a three-dimensional imaging technique to observe complex behaviours in magnets, including fast-moving waves and ‘tornadoes’ thousands of times thinner than a human hair. The team, from the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow in the UK and ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, used their technique to observe how the

IMAGE: By combining laser and microwave excitation the researchers were able to change the spin states, for example “up ” to “down “, of atom-like impurities hosted in the material and show the… view more  Credit: Dr M. Kianinia A team of international scientists investigating how to control the spin of atom-like impurities in 2D materials

A new simple blood test for brain tumours that could be used by GPs in primary care is being developed thanks to funding of nearly £500,000 by Cancer Research UK. Around 60,000 patients in the UK are living with a brain tumour but only 20 per cent of patients are still alive five years after

IMAGE: Optical micrograph of the inside of a luminescent substrate showing the red fluorescent emission from the quantum dot layer on top of the micro-patterned bottom reflector. view more  Credit: Image: Cecile Chazot Do a Google search for dark-field images, and you’ll discover a beautifully detailed world of microscopic organisms set in bright contrast to their

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded new grants totaling $1.8 million to two University of Texas at Dallas scientists for their research related to lung and kidney cancers. The Individual Investigator Awards are among 55 new grants totaling more than $78 million that the institute announced Feb. 19. To date,