A team of physicists from the University of California, San Diego and The University of Manchester is creating tailor-made materials for cutting-edge research and perhaps a new generation of optoelectronic devices. The materials make it easier for the researchers to manipulate excitons, which are pairs of an electron and an electron hole bound to each other by an electrostatic force.
For the first time, static electricity has been harnessed by researchers to control chemical reactions. This breakthrough achievement could pave the way for cheaper nanotechnology and cleaner industry. The researchers applied an electric field as a catalyst for the Diels-Alder reaction, a common reaction, and were able optimize its reaction rate by a factor of five.
Researchers at Kyushu University have formulated a new approach that could be the foundation of a whole new range of electronic devices possessing exceptionally tunable properties. Using this approach, the team was able to extensively vary the efficiency and emission color of organic light-emitting diodes based on exciplexes merely by modifying the distance by a few nanometers between key molecules in the devices.
A team of researchers from the University of California Santa Cruz and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) recently announced the first instance of ultrafast 3D-printed graphene supercapacitor electrodes capable of outperforming comparable electrodes, manufactured using conventional techniques.
FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible organic electronics, is showcasing a full colour, conformable organic LCD (OLCD) at Mobile World Congress 2016.
Researchers from the University of Utah have discovered a unique 2D semiconducting material for electronics, which could produce much faster, lower power smartphones and computers.
Members from a research collaboration called “A Consortium to Exploit Spin Chirality in Advanced Materials” has succeeded in experimentally establishing the properties of crystals of chiral magnetic materials. This could lead to the development of new varieties of magnetic memories with remarkable storage capacities. In 2015, the collaboration was established by scientists from a number of countries, including the UK, Russia, and Japan.
A Franco-German cooperation has investigated a sandwich system of transition metal oxides at BESSY II. The scientists discovered a new option to control properties of the interface between the two layers, for instance the amount of charge transferred from one layer to the other or the emergence of ferromagnetism. Their insights might help to create new properties at the interface, not present in the primary materials, maybe even novel forms of High Tc superconductivity.
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have combined advanced nanometer-scale gratings and a Space Age-era thin-film polymer, to invent a novel technology. This technology can be used to fabricate routers and switches for optical signals, energy-efficient full-color video displays, and smart windows and coatings.
Computer chips are currently built by stacking layers of varied materials and engraving patterns into them.
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