Month: December 2020

IMAGE: Professor Johnny Chung-yin Ho, Associate Head and Professor of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at CityU looks at a nanowire chip. Developing nanowires for future semiconducting chips is… view more  Credit: City University of Hong Kong A joint research led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has built an ultralow-power consumption artificial

IMAGE: In the presence of nanoparticles, the cell wall of the bacteria ends up breaking seemingly by stretching, like a balloon that is inflated from different points until it exploted. view more  Credit: Vladimir Baulin Finding alternatives to antibiotics is one of the biggest challenges facing the research community. Bacteria are increasingly resistant to these drugs,

BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo researchers are reporting a new, two-dimensional transistor made of graphene and the compound molybdenum disulfide that could help usher in a new era of computing. As described in a paper accepted at the 2020 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, which is taking place virtually next week, the transistor requires

IMAGE: Professor Sungwon Lee (right) led a team of scientists, including Gihyeok Gwon (left) and Wooseong Jeong (center) of DGIST, to improve the conductivity of PEDOT:PSS electrodes. view more  Credit: dgist Scientists around the world are working to develop electronic skins that attach to the body and monitor vital signs. These E-skins need to be comfortable,

Although robotics has reshaped and even redefined many industrial sectors, there still exists a gap between machines and humans in fields such as health and elderly care. For robots to safely manipulate or interact with fragile objects and living organisms, new strategies to enhance their perception while making their parts softer are needed. In fact,

IMAGE: A solution to the growing clean drinking water availability problem is direct solar steam generation technology, which can remove harmful soluble pollutants from water view more  Credit: Lei Miao from SIT Without drinkable water there is no life. Yet, nearly 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to fresh water and another 2.4 billion suffer from

For decades, one material has so dominated the production of computer chips and transistors that the tech capital of the world — Silicon Valley — bears its name. But silicon’s reign may not last forever. MIT researchers have found that an alloy called InGaAs (indium gallium arsenide) could hold the potential for smaller and more

Soft material behaves like a robot, moving with precision and agility without complex hardware, hydraulics or electricity Embedded nickel skeleton enables robot to respond to external magnetic fields Life-like robotic materials could someday be used as ‘smart’ microscopic systems for production of fuels and drugs, environmental cleanup or transformative medical procedures EVANSTON, Ill. — Northwestern

IMAGE: Microscopic nanodiamonds clump together when placed in water (shown above), but dissociate when in ethyl acetate to clean hot wastewater. view more  Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c15194 Although most of the planet is covered by water, only a fraction of it is clean enough for humans to use. Therefore,

IMAGE: Barbara Mazzolai is a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of plants, their behavior both underground and in the air, and the translation of their characteristics into soft robots; a research… view more  Credit: IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genova (Italy), 9 Dec 2020 – A new model of plant robot equipped with artificial intelligence able to

IMAGE: A sandcastle on the beach which is held together by the universal process called capillary condensation. view more  Credit: Photo by ‘Hello I’m Nik’ on Unsplash Water vapor from ambient air will spontaneously condense inside porous materials or between touching surfaces. But with the liquid layer being only a few molecules thick this ubiquitous and

IMAGE: Schematic structure of electrical contacts and wires of the perovskite solar cell in an ESR sample tube. view more  Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan – Consumers worldwide are demanding greener energy sources; therefore, optimizing the performance and economic viability of solar cells is an important research focus. Improving the efficiency of perovskite solar cells

IMAGE: Strongly Correlated Oxide Proton Resistor devices view more  Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan – Researchers at Osaka University demonstrated a new technique for modifying the hydrogen concentration of resistors by applying an electrical voltage. The generated electric field drove the diffusion of hydrogen ions deeper into the perovskite rare-earth nickelate lattice, which led to a

Montreal, December 8, 2020 – Through its new Marcelle-Gauvreau Engineering Research Chairs program, the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) hopes to stimulate the careers of talented researchers by focusing not only on the criteria of excellence normally recognized in the academic community, but also on exceptional qualities of resilience and determination in the face of

The observation of a chemical reaction at the molecular level in real-time is a central theme in experimental chemical physics. An international research team has captured roaming molecular fragments for the first time. The work, under the supervision of Heide Ibrahim, research associate at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), was published in