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IMAGE: Hall-bar device on solid proton conductor used for measurements view more  Credit: FLEET A Chinese-Australian collaboration has demonstrated for the first time that interlayer coupling in a van der Waals (vdW) material can be largely modulated by a protonic gate, which inject protons to devices from an ionic solid. The discovery opens the way to

HARWELL, UK (30 July 2020) The Faraday Institution has selected its first six Industry Fellowships in an innovative new programme to strengthen ties between battery researchers working in industry and academia. Each fellowship will enable academics and industrialists to undertake a mutually beneficial, electrochemical energy storage research project that aims to solve a critical industrial

IMAGE: The graph illustrates the stepwise synthesis of Silver-Zinc Oxide core-shell clusters. view more  Credit: © IEP – TU Graz Whether in innovative high-tech materials, more powerful computer chips, pharmaceuticals or in the field of renewable energies, nanoparticles – smallest portions of bulk material – form the basis for a whole range of new technological developments.

IMAGE: The new chip will remove the arduous task of manually testing swimming pools, avoids overuse of pool chemicals, and reduces the risk of infection from incorrect pool chemistry. view more  Credit: University of SA A new microchip that enables continuous monitoring of pH and chlorine levels in swimming pools will vastly improve water safety and

IMAGE: The material (thick gray line in the center of the image) derived from e-waste remained intact when indented, and increased the hardness of the steel below it. view more  Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c00485 A typical recycling process converts large quantities of items made of a single material into more of the

IMAGE: Katherine Hornbostel, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering view more  Credit: Ramon Cordero (Mainline Photography) As renewable power generation increases, conventional energy sources like natural gas, coal, and nuclear power will still be required to balance the nation’s energy portfolio. Traditional power plants will

IMAGE: This photo shows the fabrication procedure of a nondiffracting of a lightfield using a desired transversed caustic. view more  Credit: WWU – Alessandro Zannotti Modern applications as high resolution microsopy or micro- or nanoscale material processing require customized laser beams that do not change during propagation. This represents an immense challenge since light typically broadens

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Aalto University have discovered that electrochemical doping with ionic liquid can significantly enhance the optical and electrical properties of transparent conductors made of single-walled carbon nanotube films. The results were published in the journal Carbon. A single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) is a seamless rolled sheet of graphene, a list

IMAGE: A newly developed fabric repels water and allows moisture to evaporate from the skin.  view more  Credit: American Chemical Society Air conditioning and other space cooling methods account for about 10% of all electricity consumption in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces have

IMAGE: A single-crystalline perovskite thin film during the transfer process. view more  Credit: Yusheng Lei Nanoengineers at UC San Diego developed a new method to fabricate perovskites as single-crystal thin films, which are more efficient for use in solar cells and optical devices than the current state-of-the-art polycrystalline forms of the material. Their fabrication method–which uses

IMAGE: Local-differential recording of neuronal activities (top) Fabricated coaxial needle-electrode (bottom) view more  Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Overview Associate Professor Takeshi Kawano, Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT) and the research team at the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) have developed a coaxial cable-inspired

IMAGE: Researchers led by a University of Houston engineer have reported a new way to stimulate fluid flow at nanoscale by using a small increase in temperature or voltage. view more  Credit: ACS Applied Nano Materials The movement of fluids through small capillaries and channels is crucial for processes ranging from blood flow through the brain

Researchers have for the first time measured a fundamental property of magnets called magnon polarisation — and in the process, are making progress towards building low-energy devices. The existence of magnon polarisation has been a theoretical idea in physics for almost 100 years but no one has proved its existence. Scientists at the University of