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Molecular Swarm Rearranges Surface Structures Atom by Atom

Oct. 7, 2020 — Researchers have now developed a molecular tool which makes it possible, at the atomic level, to change the structure of a metal surface. The restructuring of the surface by individual molecules - ...

Turning Diamond Into Metal

Oct. 5, 2020 — Researchers have discovered a way to tweak tiny needles of diamond in a controlled way to transform their electronic properties, dialing them from insulating, through semiconducting, all the way to ...

Physicists Build Circuit That Generates Clean, Limitless Power from Graphene

Oct. 2, 2020 — Physicists have successfully generated an electrical current from the atomic motion of graphene, discovering a new source of clean, limitless ...

3D Printed 'Invisible' Fibers Can Sense Breath, Sound, and Biological Cells

Sep. 30, 2020 — From capturing your breath to guiding biological cell movements, 3D printing of tiny, transparent conducting fibers could be used to make devices which can 'smell, hear and touch' -- making it ...

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Engineering Team Develops Novel Miniaturized Organic Semiconductor

Oct. 8, 2020 — An engineering team has made an important breakthrough in developing the staggered structure monolayer Organic Field Effect Transistors, which sets a major cornerstone to reduce the size of ...

Printing Organic Transistors

Oct. 7, 2020 — Researchers successfully print and demonstrate organic transistors, electronic switches, which can operate close to their theoretical speed limits. They showed high-speed operation only requires low ...

Intelligent Nanomaterials for Photonics

Oct. 7, 2020 — 2D materials - combined with optical fibers - can enable novel applications in the areas of sensors, non-linear optics, and quantum technologies. However, combining these two components has so far ...

The Best of Both Worlds: A New Take on Metal-Plastic Hybrid 3D Printing

Oct. 5, 2020 — Current 3D printers employ either plastic or metal only, and the conventional method to coat 3D plastic structures with metal is not environment-friendly and yields poor results. Now, scientists have ...

Sensor With 100,000 Times Higher Sensitivity Could Bolster Thermal Imaging

Oct. 1, 2020 — New research developed a new microwave radiation sensor with 100,000 times higher sensitivity than currently available commercial sensors. Researchers said better detection of microwave radiation ...

Flexible and Biodegradable Electronic Blood Vessels

Oct. 1, 2020 — Researchers have developed electronic blood vessels that can be actively tuned to address subtle changes in the body after implantation. The blood vessels -- made of a metal-polymer conductor ...

5G Wireless May Lead to Inaccurate Weather Forecasts

Sep. 24, 2020 — Upcoming 5G wireless networks that will provide faster cell phone service may lead to inaccurate weather forecasts, according to a new study on a controversial issue that has created anxiety among ...

Spin Clean-Up Method Brings Practical Quantum Computers Closer to Reality

Sep. 25, 2020 — Researchers create a quantum algorithm that removes spin contaminants while making chemical calculations on quantum computers. This allows for predictions of electronic and molecular behavior with ...

New Brain Cell-Like Nanodevices Work Together to Identify Mutations in Viruses

Sep. 24, 2020 — Scientists have described a new nanodevice that acts almost identically to a brain cell. Furthermore, they have shown that these synthetic brain ...

This Tiny Device Can Scavenge Wind Energy from the Breeze You Make When You Walk

Sep. 23, 2020 — Most of the wind available on land is too gentle to push commercial wind turbine blades, but now researchers have designed a kind of 'tiny wind ...