Accelerators built to explore the building blocks of matter help to feed the nation’s need…
Month: March 2017
A new model for capillary rise in nano-channels offers insights into improved hydraulic fracturing (fracking)
With fracking, scientists have calculated the expected level of capillary rise with the Lucas-Washburn equation,…
Spintronic technology advances with newly designed magnetic tunnel junctions
Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) have played a central role in spintronic devices, and researchers are…
Revealing the microscopic mechanisms in perovskite solar cells
In just a few years, researchers have achieved remarkable power conversion efficiency with materials with…
Estimating the glass transition temperature for polymers in ‘confined geometries’
Polystyrene has a glass transition temperature of about 100 C — at room temperature it…
Manipulating magnetic textures
While the ability to easily control the magnetic properties of small electronic systems is highly…
Research: From Arctic to the Mediterranean
Lakes, rivers, estuaries and oceans are closely connected. Despite this, aquatic research is still divided…
Looking for signs of the Big Bang in the desert
The silence of an immense desolate land in which to search for reverberations coming from…
Cuantec: New force in the fight against food waste
CuanTec is a start-up company with a positive and practical solution to the disposal of…
World’s most efficient, environment-friendly solar cells
In the future, solar cells can become twice as efficient by employing a few smart…