New, carbon-nanotube tool for ultra-sensitive virus detection and identification

A new tool that uses a forest-like array of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes that can be finely tuned to selectively trap viruses by their size can increase the detection threshold for viruses and speed the process of identifying newly-emerging viruses.

Engineers transform brewery wastewater into energy storage

Engineers have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater to create the nanostructured carbon-based materials needed to make energy storage cells.

New sensor material could enable more sensitive readings of biological signals

Scientists have created a material that could make reading biological signals, from heartbeats to brainwaves, much more sensitive.

Ultra-thin quantum LEDs could accelerate development of quantum networks

Researchers have developed all-electrical ultra-thin quantum LEDs, which have potential as on-chip photon sources in quantum information applications, including quantum networks for quantum computers.

One-pot synthesis towards sulfur-based organic semiconductors

A short and simple synthetic route for thiophene-fused aromatic compounds.

First demonstration of brain-inspired device to power artificial systems

New research has demonstrated that a nanoscale device, called a memristor, could be used to power artificial systems that can mimic the human brain.

Energy jumps back and forth between molecules during transfers

The process of photosynthesis, through which plants convert sunlight into chemical energy, involves a carefully choreographed transfer of energy from molecule to molecule. Exactly how the energy is moved is not fully understood, as it is extremely difficult to observe these transfers, which take place extremely rapidly and on a very small scale.