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Next generation photonic memory devices are light-written, ultrafast and energy efficient
Light is the most energy-efficient way of moving information. Yet, light shows one big limitation: it is difficult to store. As a matter...
Jan 17, 20193 min read
Cartilage could be key to safe ‘structural batteries’
Your knees and your smartphone battery have some surprisingly similar needs, a University of Michigan professor has discovered, and that...
Jan 14, 20193 min read
Nanocrystals Get Better When They Double Up With MOFs
Out of the box, crystalline MOFs (metal-organic frameworks) look like ordinary salt crystals. But MOFs are anything but ordinary crystals...
Jan 10, 20194 min read
Carrying and releasing nanoscale cargo with 'nanowrappers'
Nanocubes with hollow interiors and surface openings whose shape, size, and location are precisely controlled could be used to load and...
Jan 3, 20195 min read
World's smallest tic-tac-toe game board made with DNA
Move over Mona Lisa, here comes tic-tac-toe. It was just about a year ago that Caltech scientists in the laboratory of Lulu Qian,...
Dec 20, 20184 min read
Chemists create new quasicrystal material from nanoparticle building blocks
The strange class of materials known as quasicrystals has a new member. In a paper published on Thursday, Dec. 20, in Science,...
Dec 20, 20184 min read
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