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Chemistry World June 25, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Unusual 2D silica allotrope predicted A graphene-like allotrope of silica with unusual physical and electrical properties has been predicted by theoretical chemists in Turkey.  |
Chemistry World September 11, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Germanium enters 2D scene In recent years we've welcomed silicene and phosphorene to the family of elements that have a two-dimensional allotrope, and now germanium has become the latest member.  |
Technology Research News August 11, 2004 |
Single gold atoms altered The gold atom, positioned on an ultrathin film of sodium chloride, remained stable during the operation, despite the change in charge.  |
Chemistry World April 4, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Calculations predict new form of phosphorus Researchers in the US have predicted the existence of 'blue phosphorus' -- another layered phase -- using computational models.  |
Chemistry World December 10, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Platinum plating at the flick of a switch Atom thick catalytic layers of platinum can be deposited on surfaces from solution rapidly and cheaply thanks to a new technique developed by US scientists.  |
Chemistry World November 26, 2012 David Bradley |
Spotting silicon in graphene, it's dope A combination of scanning transmission electron microscopy and atomic-resolution spectroscopic techniques has allowed US researchers to pick out individual silicon atoms in a doped graphene sheet.  |
Chemistry World May 2, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Solar panel slims down to a few atoms thick An international team of researchers has constructed an atom thin photovoltaic device with unusually high quantum efficiency -- a measure of the photons converted into charge carrying electrons -- of 30%.  |
Chemistry World February 28, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Individual Atoms' Chemical ID Revealed Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that atomic force microscopy can be used to reveal the chemical identity of individual atoms on a surface at room temperature.  |
Wired October 2001 Wil McCarthy |
Ultimate Alchemy Research into artificial atoms could lead to one startling endpoint: programmable matter that changes its makeup at the flip of a switch...  |
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Joel E. Moore |
Topological Insulators Quantum magic can make strange but useful semiconductors that are insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface  |
Chemistry World August 29, 2012 James Urquhart |
Graphene--boron nitride stitching to sew up electronics The race to create ultrathin, transparent and flexible electronic devices using graphene -- the most conductive material known to exist -- has a promising new contender.  |
Chemistry World September 18, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Researchers See Electrons in a Spin Scientists in the US have successfully measured the spin polarisation state of single atoms adsorbed to a surface, bringing the prospect of quantum computing and spin-based electronics (spintronics) a step closer.  |
Chemistry World December 15, 2010 Hayley Birch |
New technique probes electron properties of individual atoms A new, low voltage electron microscopy technique allows scientists to discriminate not just between atoms of different elements but between atoms of the same element in different electronic states.  |
Chemistry World February 17, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Microscope pinpoints atoms in a lattice The imaging method, a modified form of a scanning transmission electron microscope, may help researchers to understand how chemical bonding and lattice distortions can affect the performance of alloys.  |
Chemistry World January 31, 2014 Philip Ball |
X-rays set to reveal electrons' dance In principle the very intense, ultra-short x-ray pulses produced by free-electron laser sources will be capable of revealing the motions of electrons in real time as they hop between different energy states in atoms and molecules.  |
Technology Research News May 4, 2005 |
Noisy Snapshots Show Quantum Weirdness Researchers have devised a relatively simple way to detect a pair of entangled, or linked atoms. The detection ability advances quantum computer and quantum communications research.  |
Chemistry World June 2, 2014 Caryl Richards |
Diamond set to sparkle for nanoelectronics Scientists in Australia are the first to etch structures less than a hundred nanometers in size on the inclined surfaces of diamond by simply using a variable pressure scanning electron microscope.  |
Chemistry World August 13, 2012 Hayley Birch |
Graphene reactions driven by substrate not reactant In chemical reactions, the reactants determine the level of reactivity. Not for graphene though -- the one-atom-thick sheets of carbon can react vigorously or barely at all to the same chemicals, depending on the substrate they're sitting on.  |
Chemistry World September 23, 2014 Katrina Kramer |
One-shot tomography gives atomic-scale 3D images Researchers from Germany and China have developed a method to obtain a 3D image of a nanocrystal, with atomic resolution, using just a single 1D snapshot.  |
Chemistry World June 17, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Nanoboxes given optoelectronic function Scientists in the US have folded a nanoscale wafer of aluminium oxide, with a pattern of gold on its surface, into a hollow cube, creating a tiny optoelectronic device.  |
Chemistry World November 13, 2014 Andy Extance |
Good vibrations brighten superconductor outlook New observations from researchers in the US and Canada of how electron movement in superconductors can be boosted could be set to accelerate their development.  |
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 |
Electricity teleportation devised Researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands have devised a way to teleport electricity.  |
Technology Research News December 19, 2005 |
Quantum computing: qubits Quantum bits, or qubits, are the quantum equivalent of the transistors that make up today's computers. There are four established qubit candidates: ion traps, quantum dots, semiconductor impurities, and superconducting circuits.  |
Chemistry World September 27, 2006 Victoria Gill |
Printing Nano Portraits Making 55,000 nanoscale images of Thomas Jefferson might sound like an eccentric art project, but this is the first demonstration of a new technique that harnesses the power of thousands of nanoscale pens working in synchrony.  |
Chemistry World November 29, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Mystery of diamond polishing solved? Mike Ashfold, an expert on the chemistry of diamond at the University of Bristol in the UK, says, 'Polishers have long recognised that some diamond surfaces polish more easily, and more successfully, than others.  |
BusinessWeek March 15, 2004 John Carey |
Physics: "Putting The Weirdness To Work" Scientists say quantum materials will be the basis for amazing devices, but when?  |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits Researchers have recently realized that it may be possible to control the electrons in a quantum computer using a single magnetic field rather than having to produce extremely small, precisely focused magnetic fields for each electron.  |
Chemistry World December 24, 2013 |
Season's greetings from Chemistry World Frosty, here, stands 30 micrometers tall and is made out of balls of tin etched using an ion beam.  |
Chemistry World September 2, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
New ceramic can handle the heat Researchers in the UK have created a new ceramic oxide with tunable thermal expansion: it can expand, contract or remain unchanged in response to heat depending upon the proportion of key components used to make it.  |
Technology Research News June 30, 2004 |
Chip protects single atoms Researchers have found a way to closely control the quantum states, or traits, of single atoms trapped in a microchip. The method is a step toward building devices like miniature atomic clocks that are an order of magnitude more accurate than those that exist today.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Alexander Hellemans |
Strange Bedfellows Hybrid microcircuits, incorporating the desirable properties of the III-V compounds with those of cheap and ubiquitous silicon substrates, might soon find an important niche in electronics after all.  |
Chemistry World February 27, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Quantum tunnelling sparks chemistry on cold surfaces Chemistry in deep space could be more diverse than thought after the discovery that larger atoms can quantum tunnel.  |