Innovations

Exotic Quantum Particle Observed in Bilayer Graphene

A team led by Cory Dean, assistant professor of physics at Columbia University, and James Hone, Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia...

Superconductivity Found in Thin Films of Titanium Oxide

Many of us are familiar with titanium dioxide (TiO2), a whitener commonly used in sunscreens and paints such as the white lines seen on...

Atoms-thick semiconductors stacks for solar cells and circuits

A study led by UChicago researchers, published Sept. 20 in Nature, describes an innovative method to make stacks of semiconductors just a few atoms thick....

Self-Folding Printable Structures once Peeled-Off

In a paper appearing in the American Chemical Society's journal Applied Materials and Interfaces, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and...

Flexible New Platform for High-Performance Electronics

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has created the most functional flexible transistor in the world -- and with it, a fast, simple...

Reducing the high computational effort with AI based chemical fingerprints

Drastic advances in research of artificial intelligence have led to a wide range of fascinating developments in this area over the last decade. Autonomously...

Quantum encryption tested in real world over free space networks

For the first time, researchers have sent a quantum-secured message containing more than one bit of information per photon through the air above a...

A Diamond Battery from Nuclear Waste to last more than 5,000 YEARS

Diamond produces a charge when placed next to a radioactive source There are no moving parts, no emissions and no maintenance is needed ...

Aluminium Gallium Nitride Transistors on Silicon on Insulator Substrate

Chang Gung University and Episil-Precision in Taiwan claim the first demonstration of in-situ silicon nitride (SiNx) gate dielectric aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) barrier metal–insulator...

Tiny Molecular Robots may help to discover novel drugs

Scientists have created the world’s first ‘molecular robot’ – millionth of a millimetre in size – that can be used to build molecules and...

Solar cells powered Wearables works in water also

Organic solar cells that are waterproof and stretchable could someday be sewn into washable electronic clothing. Researchers in Japan describe fabricating and testing several of these...

Water-Based Lithium-ion Batteries Without Explosive Risks

Researchers have developed for the first time a lithium-ion battery that uses a water-salt solution as its electrolyte and reaches the 4.0 volt mark...

With Nanodiamonds Lithium-Ion Batteries provides 10x more energy

Microscopic diamonds added to lithium-based batteries could help prevent the fires and explosions that can bedevil the energy storage devices, a new study finds....

Nanoscale optical quantum memory developed with intact properties

Quantum memory stores information in a similar fashion to the way traditional computer memory does, but on individual quantum particles - in this case,...

Eco-friendly Disposable Personal Electronics and Biomedical Devices in the Offing

Scientists have developed a new electronic device that can be triggered to dissolve through exposure to water molecules in the atmosphere. The advance may...

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