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IMAGE: Photograph of a neuromorphic device used in this study. view more  Credit: Shunsuke Yamamoto “Neuromorphic” refers to mimicking the behavior of brain neural cells. When one speaks of neuromorphic computers, they are talking about making computers think and process more like human brains-operating at high-speed with low energy consumption. Despite a growing interest in polymer-based

IMAGE: ‘I have always been proud of the students that I have trained and worked with,’ says Kalantar-zadeh, shown here with his team at CASLEO, UNSW. ‘This award equally belongs to… view more  Credit: UNSW FLEET CI Professor Kourosh Kaantar-zadeh (UNSW Sydney) has been awarded the prestigious 2020 Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science by The

IMAGE: The Department of Energy awards a five-year Early Career grant to Rice physicist Ming Yi to explore the nature of magnetism in two-dimensional materials. view more  Credit: Jeff FItlow/Rice University HOUSTON – (June 23, 2020) – The Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences has awarded Rice University experimental physicist Ming Yi a five-year

IMAGE: University of Washington researchers used an infrared laser to cool a solid semiconductor material — labeled here as “cantilever ” — by at least 20 degrees C, or 36 F, below room temperature. view more  Credit: Anupum Pant To the general public, lasers heat objects. And generally, that would be correct. But lasers also show

IMAGE: Ames Laboratory’s technique for making heterostructured solids involves smashing the pristine materials to build new ones. Called mechanochemistry, the technique uses ball milling to take apart structurally incommensurate solids and… view more  Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and their collaborators from Iowa State University

Jonathan Klamkin, an associate professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellowship. The prestigious prize is awarded to only the top performers among recent recipients of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA), a program established to encourage young scientists to

Our computers are becoming more and more powerful all the time. They also often become smaller – just think of what a standard smartphone can do today compared to just a few years ago. But the development cannot last. – With our current technology, we will soon reach the limit of how small the components

Bentham Science and University of Bath are pleased to announce their partnership through the ‘Read and Publish’ Agreement. With this partnership the faculty, library and others affiliated with the university can access the entire host of more than 100 Bentham Science journals including archival access to the older volumes of all titles. The contract also

IMAGE: An artist’s illustration of the light-activated antenna-reactor catalyst Rice University engineers designed to break carbon-fluorine bonds in fluorocarbons. The aluminum portion of the particle (white and pink) captures energy from… view more  Credit: H. Robatjazi/Rice University HOUSTON — (June 22, 2020) — Rice University engineers have created a light-powered catalyst that can break the strong

IMAGE: Experimental setup to generate a set of stable frequencies in a cryogenically cooled laser microresonator frequency comb. The ring-shaped microresonator, small enough to fit on a microchip, operates at very… view more  Credit: NIST Just as a meter stick with hundreds of tick marks can be used to measure distances with great precision, a device

Microbubbles are used every day as contrast agents in medical sonography, and are the subject of intense research for the delivery of therapeutic agents. There are a number of options available to manipulate these microbubbles, including the use of light and sound, although the potential of the latter remains largely unexplored. In their research[1] published

IMAGE: Animation showing a topological soliton rotating anticlockwise. Laser light traveling through waveguides, intricate “wires for light ” carved through glass, interacts with itself to form self-sustaining wave patterns called solitons. The… view more  Credit: Rechtsman Laboratory, Penn State Laser light traveling through ornately microfabricated glass has been shown to interact with itself to form self-sustaining

IMAGE: Pathways of viral infection in everyday life shown in a simplified scheme (top) and illustrated by pictorial descriptions of exposure to virus in everyday activities (bottom). Placement of UV-C light… view more  Credit: Image sketches by Nacho Gaubert. The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak is posing an extraordinary challenge that requires swift worldwide action for the massive deployment

EVANSTON, Ill. — Northwestern University researchers have developed a family of soft materials that imitates living creatures. When hit with light, the film-thin materials come alive — bending, rotating and even crawling on surfaces. Called “robotic soft matter by the Northwestern team,” the materials move without complex hardware, hydraulics or electricity. The researchers believe the

Electronic properties of condensed matter are often determined by an intricate competition between kinetic energy that aims to overlap and delocalize electronic wave functions across the crystal lattice, and localizing electron-electron interactions. In contrast, the gaseous phase is characterized by valence electrons tightly localized around the ionic atom cores in discrete quantum states with well-defined