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Nanomaterials Enable Dual-Mode Heating and Cooling Device

Dec. 2, 2020 — Engineers have demonstrated a dual-mode heating and cooling device for building climate control that, if widely deployed in the U.S., could cut HVAC energy use by nearly 20 percent. The invention ...

New Glue Sticks Easily, Holds Strongly, and Is a Gas to Pull Apart

Dec. 2, 2020 — Research introduces temporary adhesives that don't require tearing or ripping to pull ...

Game Changer in Thermoelectric Materials Could Unlock Body-Heat Powered Personal Devices

Nov. 30, 2020 — A breakthrough improvement in ultra-efficient thermoelectric materials, which can convert heat into electricity and vice versa, has great potential ...

Quantum Nanodiamonds May Help Detect Disease Earlier

Nov. 25, 2020 — The quantum sensing abilities of nanodiamonds can be used to improve the sensitivity of paper-based diagnostic tests, potentially allowing for earlier detection of diseases such as HIV, according to ...

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New Platform Generates Hybrid Light-Matter Excitations in Highly Charged Graphene

Dec. 2, 2020 — Researchers report that they have achieved plasmonically active graphene with record-high charge density without an external gate. They accomplished ...

Virus-Like Probes Could Help Make Rapid COVID-19 Testing More Accurate, Reliable

Dec. 1, 2020 — Nanoengineers have developed new and improved probes, known as positive controls, that could make it easier to validate rapid, point-of-care ...

A Filter for Environmental Remediation

Nov. 19, 2020 — Scientists have discovered a new method for producing sodium titanate mats nanostructured in a seaweed-like morphology for filtering heavy metal ions and radioactive materials from water. This work ...

New Material 'Mines' Copper from Toxic Wastewater

Nov. 24, 2020 — A team of scientists has designed a new material -- called ZIOS (zinc imidazole salicylaldoxime) -- that targets and traps copper ions from wastewater with unprecedented precision and speed. The ...

Creating Higher Energy Density Lithium-Ion Batteries for Renewable Energy Applications

Nov. 24, 2020 — Lithium-ion batteries that function as high-performance power sources for renewable applications, such as electric vehicles and consumer electronics, ...

Shining a Light on Nanoscale Dynamics

Nov. 24, 2020 — Watching metamaterials at work in real time using ultrafast electron diffraction: a research team succeeds in using ultrashort electron pulses to measure light-matter interactions in nanophotonic ...

Sound Waves Power New Advances in Drug Delivery and Smart Materials

Nov. 24, 2020 — Sound waves have been part of science and medicine for decades, but the technologies have always relied on low frequencies. Now researchers have revealed how high frequency sound waves could ...

World's Smallest Atom-Memory Unit Created

Nov. 23, 2020 — Faster, smaller, smarter and more energy-efficient chips for everything from consumer electronics to big data to brain-inspired computing could soon be on the way after engineers created the smallest ...

Direct Visualization of Quantum Dots Reveals Shape of Quantum Wave Function

Nov. 23, 2020 — Trapping and controlling electrons in bilayer graphene quantum dots yields a promising platform for quantum information technologies. Researchers have now achieved the first direct visualization of ...

Laser Technology: New Trick for Infrared Laser Pulses

Nov. 23, 2020 — For a long time, scientists have been looking for simple methods to produce infrared laser pulses. Now a new method has been presented that does not require large experimental setups; it can be ...