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Swiss researchers boost efficiency of flexible solar cells to new world record - Record efficiency of 18.7% for flexible CIGS solar cells on plastics
To make solar electricity affordable on a large scale, scientists and engineers worldwide have long been trying to develop a low-cost solar cell, which is both highly efficient and easy to manufacture with high throughput.
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Evidence for Graphene-Sheet-Driven Superconducting State in Graphite Intercalation Compounds
Graphite intercalation compounds (GICs) are formed by the insertion of arrays of guest species between the layered sheets of the graphite host. This can greatly modify the electronic properties of the graphite and can lead to interesting phenomena, for example, superconductivity.
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Experiments Settle Long-Standing Debate about Mysterious Array Formations in Nanofilms
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have conducted experiments confirming which of three possible mechanisms is responsible for the spontaneous formation of three-dimensional (3-D) pillar arrays in nanofilms (polymer films that are billionths of a meter thick).
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"Critical baby step" taken for spying life on a molecular scale
The ability to image single biological molecules in a living cell is something that has long eluded researchers; however, a novel technique, using the structure of diamond, may well be able to do this and potentially provide a tool for diagnosing, and eventually developing a treatment for, hard-to-cure diseases such as cancer
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Researchers create nanopatch for the heart
Engineers at Brown University and in India have a promising new approach to treating heart-attack victims. The researchers created a nanopatch with carbon nanofibers and a polymer.
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UI study: Carbon black nanoparticles activate immune cells, causing cell death
Researchers from the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have found that inhaled carbon black nanoparticles create a double source of inflammation in the lungs.
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Seeing an atomic thickness
Scientists from NPL, in collaboration with Linköping University, Sweden, have shown that regions of graphene of different thickness can be easily identified in ambient conditions using Electrostatic Force Microscopy (EFM).
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First-ever sub-nanoscale snapshots of renegade protein in Huntington's Disease
Bio-SANS probes "disease-relevant" peptide at tenths of billionths of a meter
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Nanoparticles help scientists harvest light with solar fuels
The humble alga, hated by boaters and pool owners, may someday help provide us with the raw machinery to power our appliances.
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UCF Researcher Gets Global Attention, Cash
A UCF scientist specializing in nanotechnology has earned a national award and is a contender for a new kind of 'Nobel Prize' for sustainability.
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Miracle Material
Two-dimensional graphene may lead to faster electronics, stronger spacecraft and much more.
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FUJIFILM Joins SEMATECH’s Resist Center for Advanced EUV Resist Development at UAlbany NanoCollege
As a resist member of SEMATECH’s lithography program, FUJIFILM will collaborate with SEMATECH engineers on critical resist issues in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography.
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Luna Innovations and Hansen Medical Expand Development Work
Luna and Hansen will continue to integrate shape sensing technology and medical robotics
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IBM and SARA Sign Collaboration Agreement on Petascale Computing
Hundreds of scientists in the Netherlands make use of the national supercomputing facility Huygens at SARA to tackle important scientific and societal challenges like climate change, water management, improvement of medical care, nanotechnology and green energy.
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UT physicist accelerates simulations of thin film growth
A Toledo, Ohio, physicist has implemented a new mathematical approach that accelerates some complex computer calculations used to simulate the formation of micro-thin materials.
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Unbreakable bionic glove made from silk for human-machine-interfacing
Researchers have designed the new electronic material CareGum. It is highly adaptable and has unique sensing properties. It could enable those who cannot speak to speak again. Also, it allows digital rehabilitation programs to ensure quick recovery of injured body parts.
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Color-sorting metalenses boost imaging sensitivity
Technology advance enables filter-free imaging sensors that are poised to improve low-light and fast imaging for smartphones and autonomous vehicles.
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'Crazy' light emitters: Physicists see an unusual quantum phenomenon
Scientists experimentally confirmed a highly unusual movement of light emitting particles in atomically-thin semiconductors: Electronic quasiparticles, known as excitons, seemed to move in opposite directions at the same time.
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Losing isn't always bad: Gaining topology from loss
An international collaboration has demonstrated a novel topology arising from losses in hybrid light-matter particles, introducing a new avenue to induce the highly-prized effects inherent to conventional topological materials, which can potentially revolutionise electronics.
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Surfing the spin wave in graphene
Researchers have demonstrated a new way to measure the quintessential properties of spin waves in graphene.
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