Advanced Science News
Manufacturing
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Graphene Tracks for Aluminum Trains: Nanomaterials Engineering
Aluminum clusters move along graphene tracks, controlled by applied electric currents, in work by Spanish and Dutch researchers.
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Cover Story: More than Just Pretty! Well-Defined Catalysts for Fuel Cells
Systematic insights into well-defined platinum-alloy nanoparticles promise cheaper and more-efficient fuel cells.
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Steel ab initio: Developing Complex Steels
A new and important development in complex steels is reported in the current issue of Steel Research International, dedicated to “Steel ab...
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New Diodes (Quantum) Tunnel Their Way To Improved Electronics
Researchers at Oregon State University develop cutting edge metal-insulator-metal diodes, harnessing quantum tunneling of electrons to increase performance of electronics.
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Nanostructured, Functional and for Commercial Use
The sample size of nanomaterials with functional properties has been limited to just a few millimeters. This fact has limited their commercial...
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Electronics made from ribbons
Tapered nano-sized ribbons have been made by tearing sheets of graphene from a sticky surface.
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Patterned Graphene Growth
Graphene films grown over epitaxial metal films deposited on single-crystalline substrates give unique micropits with rectangular and triangular shapes, reflecting the crystallographic...
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Inner Space
Metals encapsulated within carbon nanotubes by capillary action are prevented from crystallizing by the confined space of the nanotubes.
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High-Performance Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are considered to be the next-generation reinforcement material to potentially replace conventional carbon fibers for producing superhigh-performance lightweight composites.
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Switch On: Solid-State Atomics Switches That Learn
The human brain is one of the most complicated machines that Nature has ever invented. Can we ever hope to artificially replicate...
