Nanotech

Semiconductors that efficiently convert energy to light or vice versa. Now, next-generation semiconducting materials are exploring new study, researchers have driven modern advances in technology and photovoltaics yet again. Essentially, 2D materials are at the cutting edge of materials research.…

Princeton researchers have adapted silicon chip technology like that found in personal computers and mobile phones to act as a biosensors. The new technology allows the researchers to do away with this system by using tiny metal layers embedded in…

Researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute in the UK have succeeded in making artificial channels just one atom in size for the first time. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Arkansas has found evidence…

The feat is a step toward making quantum computing devices from silicon, the same material used in today’s smartphones and computers. The team created qubits from single electrons trapped in silicon chambers known as double quantum dots. Scientists have shown…

A new catalyst could dramatically decrease the cost of producing hydrogen, one of the cleanest renewable fuels. Many fuel cells require expensive platinum-based catalysts substances that initiate and speed up chemical reactions – to help convert renewable fuels into electrical…

Researchers at the University of Washington have genetically modified a common houseplant “pothos ivy” to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it. The pothos ivy was engineered to express a protein called 2E1 which enables the breakdown of…

A new catalyst could dramatically decrease the cost of producing hydrogen, one of the cleanest renewable fuels. Now, researchers say the metal could advance one of the most promising sources of renewable energy: hydrogen fuel cells. There’s a new contender…

Scientists at Rice University have developed synthetic protein switches to control the flow of electrons. We want to leverage that exquisite ability to build more elaborate biomolecules and use these to develop useful synthetic biology technologies. We have encountered stunning…