Examining the Fundamentals of Desirable Nanotubes
A newly published study provides scientists with a valuable resource for detailed information about metallic carbon nanotubes. The first fruits of a cooperative venture between…
A newly published study provides scientists with a valuable resource for detailed information about metallic carbon nanotubes. The first fruits of a cooperative venture between…
Researchers at Rice University have shown the ability to pattern a conductor (graphene) and insulator (hexagonal boron nitride) into a one-atom-thick hybrid of graphene and…
A newly published study has shown that graphene oxide can rapidly remove some of the most toxic and radioactive long-lived human-made radionuclides from contaminated water,…
Scientists at Rice University, in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, are working on next-generation battery technology, reporting the creation of a silicon-based anode that easily achieves…
A newly published study describes the making and testing of collagen-based on a new computer program that predicts the most stable structures of nanometer-sized collagen….
By detaching a freestanding macroporous silicon film from the underlying bulk silicon and combining it with pyrolyzed polyacrylonitrile, researchers have found a way to make…
A newly published study from scientists at Rice University found patterns in the way that surface plasmons influence each other in chains of gold nanoparticles….
By using spray-painted layers, each representing the components in a traditional battery, researchers at Rice University have developed lithium-ion batteries with consistent capacities that can…
A new study from a team of physicists offers new clues to scientists studying the mystery of high-temperature superconductivity, finding that electronic properties of a…
A newly published paper from Rice University researchers details facts and figures about “closed-edge graphene nanoribbons,” carbon nanotubes that appear to collapse during the growth…
New research from scientists at Rice University shows that when voltage is applied to a sheet of graphene on a silicon-based substrate it can turn…
A new report published by theoretical physicists suggests that under the right conditions a nanotube growing at about 1 micrometer a second at 700 kelvins…
By allowing for occasional errors, prototype “inexact” computer chips are more efficient than today’s technology, improving power and resource efficiency. Researchers have unveiled an “inexact”…
Scientists at Rice University used the notion of Swiss cheese to analyze the possible configurations of two-dimensional sheets of boron. They found that these 2-D…
Newly discovered nanotubes may have a big impact on environmental cleanup. By adding boron to carbon during the nanotube-creating process, researchers found that the resulting…
As technology moves forward, things get smaller, faster, and now possibly transparent. A team of scientists has developed transparent, flexible memory chips that may one…
Starfruit is lending its shape to newly synthesized gold nanorods, whose particles have been found to return signals 25 times stronger than similar nanorods with…
Researchers at Rice University have created a nano-infused oil that uses a very tiny amount of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) particles suspended in standard mineral…