Newly proven physics opens chalcogenide glasses to applications at visible and ultraviolet wavelengths. Electrical engineers at Duke University have discovered that changing the physical shape…
Peculiar Bi provoked nanostructures in compound semiconductor nanowires controlled by atomically precise epitaxial crystal growth. Nanowire is a rod-structure with a diameter typically narrower than…
Deep in the ocean or underground, where there is no oxygen, Geobacter bacteria “breathe” by projecting tiny protein filaments called “nanowires” into the soil, to…
Scientists from Yale University have figured out a way to refine bulk metallic glasses to improve their electrochemical performance. Results of the research, based in…
Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have set a new record for quantum teleportation, sending quantum information in light particles over 100…
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have grown nanowires of the material indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) on a sheet of graphene, discovering that…
New research from the Max Planck Institute shows that silicon nanowires become doped with unexpectedly large amounts of aluminum during growth, increasing their conductivity and…
Scientists at the Optoelectronics Research Center have developed strong, lightweight silica nanofibers that are 15 times stronger than steel and can be manufactured in lengths…
Designed by a team of scientists from Harvard, MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital, electronic sensors made of silicon nanowires could be used to monitor electrical…
A team of scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have reported the first direct observation of “jump-to-contact” between nanoparticles, the critical step in oriented…
New silicon battery technology is a major step forward in creating smaller, lighter and longer-lasting batteries. The new design contains a double-walled silicon nanotube coated…
Thanks to new to ceramics nanotechnology, scientists now working with a device that can test you for biomarkers when you blow into it. Using a…
A team of MIT researchers developed a way to precisely control the width and composition of nanowires as they grow. By being able to grow…