Transition metal dichalcogenides could increase computer speed, memory by a million times

Transition metal dichalcogenides possess optical properties that could be used to make computers run a million times faster and store information a million times more energy-efficiently.

New concept to cool boiling surface may help prevent nuclear power plant accidents

Study finds that boiling heat transfer was much more favorable with a new concept that involves coating the hot surface using nanoscale bimorphs.

Imaging accumulated charges at solid-electrolyte interfaces

Researchers develop microscopy technique for three-dimensional visualization of interfacial charge distributions.

The promise of deep grooves

The materials synthesis method known as sequential infiltration synthesis, or SIS, has the potential to improve not only chip manufacturing but also things like hard drive storage, solar cell efficiency, anti-reflective surfaces on optics and water-repellant car windshields.

Single atoms break carbon's strongest bond

Scientists discovered that single atoms of platinum can break the bond between carbon and fluorine, one of the strongest known chemical bonds.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for optical tweezers

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the NobelPrize in Physics 2018 'for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics'.

Simulations show new phenomenon with nanopore DNA sequencing

Using supercomputers, scientists found a surprising amount of water compression at the nanoscale. These findings could help advance medical diagnostics through creation of nanoscale systems that detect, identify, and sort biomolecules.