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Electronic properties news, March 2016

A new recipe for liquid batteries

Making a viable liquid metal battery with calcium and magnesium.

30 March 2016David Bradley

Taiwanese researchers suggest that graphene’s high thermal conductivity could further improve the lifetime of LEDs.

28 March 2016Laurie Winkless

Scientists have developed a new method for making single crystals from glasses and other solid materials with disordered atomic structures.

28 March 2016

New spintronic device with sandwich-like insulation.

24 March 2016Laurie Donaldson

Repeatedly crumpling and wrinkling a sheet of graphene can make it water-repellent and enhance its electrochemical properties.

24 March 2016

New process for using atmospheric CO2 in environmentally friendly battery electrodes.

23 March 2016Laurie Donaldson

Property of organic semiconductor molecule could improve device efficiency.

23 March 2016Laurie Donaldson

Novel devices that produce electricity from pulses of heat traveling along carbon nanotubes can generate as much power as today's batteries.

22 March 2016

By coating transparent elastomers with silver nanowires, scientists have developed a novel technique for quickly changing the opacity of a window.

21 March 2016

The vibrations of the outermost atomic layers at the surface of a nanomaterial are comparatively large and play an important role in how it behaves.

17 March 2016

Scientists have used a helium ion microscope to control the conductivity and distribution of ferroelectric domains on a 2D material.

16 March 2016

New excitonic devices made from the 2D materials molybdenum disulfide and hexagonal boron nitride can control excitons at room temperature.

16 March 2016

Graphene can transmit high frequency electrical signals without energy loss, outperforming any other known material, including superconductors.

15 March 2016

A new machine learning tool can predict a theoretical polymer's electronic properties from its atomic configuration.

15 March 2016

Low-frequency Raman spectroscopy can characterize the patterns produced when 2D materials are stacked on top of each other and twisted.

15 March 2016

Scientists have shown that the fungus Neurospora crassa can transform manganese into a composite for use in lithium-ion batteries.

15 March 2016

By combining microscopy and theoretical calculations, scientists have studied the properties of a promising next-generation energy storage material.

15 March 2016

A novel electroluminescent ‘skin’ can stretch to more than six times its original size while still emitting light.

14 March 2016

By synthesizing highly pure crystals, scientists have overcome a practical limit on the efficiency of cadmium telluride solar cells.

11 March 2016

Scientists have shown that carbon nanotubes produced from atmospheric carbon dioxide can form the basis for battery electrodes.

11 March 2016

Scientists have discovered a new one atom-thick material made from silicon, boron and nitrogen that is stable and semiconducting.

11 March 2016

New flexible conductive tracks made from a liquid metal alloy can be stretched up to four times their original length in all directions.

11 March 2016

Infrared boost for the digital world thanks to plasmonics.

10 March 2016David Bradley

A new surface for controlling infrared plasmons could form the basis for faster, more efficient ways of transmitting massive amounts of data.

9 March 2016

Electronic vortices forming on the surface of graphene lead to negative resistance

9 March 2016David Bradley

Using everyday materials like paper and foil, engineers have developed a low-cost sensor that can detect external stimuli.

9 March 2016

Scientists have found a way to fabricate a novel 2D heterojunction by bringing together graphene and gallium selenide.

9 March 2016

Scientists have zoomed in on the quantum phase transition that could explain why copper oxides are high-temperature superconductors.

8 March 2016

Scientists have come up with a way to increase the conductivity of two novel electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

7 March 2016

Scientists have developed two new sustainable electrode materials for sodium-ion batteries.

7 March 2016

See your image on the cover of Nano Today in 2016.

5 March 2016Juliet Dunstone

A material made of carbon nanotubes and copper oxide nanocrystals can use sunlight to split carbon dioxide and water into green fuels.

2 March 2016

For the first time, scientists have observed electrons in graphene behaving like a fluid.

1 March 2016

A one-atom-thick layer of tin monoxide is the first stable P-type 2D semiconducting material ever discovered.

1 March 2016

Scientists have developed a way to fabricate atomically-precise two-dimensional superstructures out of the nanocrystals known as quantum dots.

1 March 2016

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