Controlled physical placement of quantum dots inside block copolymer microspheres determines the combined emission characteristics.
Spin-Hall effect observation is a step towards "atomtronics"
Researchers at NIST have reported the first observation of the “spin Hall effect” in a Bose-Einstein condensate.
Patent awarded for li-ion battery fire-suppression system
LithFire-X has been awarded patent protection for a system to contain and extinguish lithium ion battery fires in electric energy storage configurations.
Nanoparticle-based soft tissue sarcoma treatment shows promising results
Lead nanoparticle-based product, NBTXR3, shows positive phase 1 intermin results in patients with Soft Tissue Sarcoma (STS).
Hydrogen sintering technique makes titanium production cheaper
Procedure produces near-net-shape titanium components with superior mechanical properties and significantly reduced energy consumption and processing costs.
Printing artificial bone
Researchers develop method to design synthetic materials and quickly turn the design into reality using computer optimization and 3-D printing.
Self-healing polymer composites with electrospun and solution-blown nanofibres
Developments in electrospinning core–shell nanofibres improve toughening and facilitate self-healing in nanofibre-reinforced polymer matrix composites.
Switchable Diffraction from Liquid Crystal–Carbon Nanotube Hybrids
Voltage-dependent diffraction switching makes a hybrid liquid crystal–carbon nanotube device a good candidate for high-resolution displays.
Nanotube catalyst gives alternative to precious metals
Economical non-precious-metal catalyst capitalizes on carbon nanotubes.
Flexible metamaterials could form new optical systems
New thin, planar, lightweight, and broadband polarimetric photonic devices and optics could result from recent research by a team of Los Alamos scientists.