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Making Batteries From Waste Glass Bottles
UCR researchers are turning glass bottles into high performance lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and personal electronics...
Apr 20, 20172 min read
Polymer-coated silicon nanosheets -- an alternative to graphene
Silicon nanosheets are thin, two-dimensional layers with exceptional optoelectronic properties very similar to those of graphene. Albeit,...
Mar 9, 20173 min read
Germanium outperforms silicon in energy efficient transistors with n- and p- conduction
A team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab gGmbH) and the Cluster of Excellence Center for Advancing...
Feb 6, 20172 min read
Making graphene using laser-induced phase separation
All our smart phones have shiny flat AMOLED displays. Behind each single pixel of these displays hide at least two silicon transistors...
Dec 1, 20162 min read
Bringing silicon to life
A new study is the first to show that living organisms can be persuaded to make silicon-carbon bonds--something only chemists had done...
Nov 25, 20164 min read
Rare Earth Atoms See the Light
Physicist Dirk Bouwmeester discovers a promising route for combined optical and solid state-based quantum information processing. Tiny...
Apr 26, 20163 min read
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