Correlation between cryo-transmission electron microscope (TEM) images and the crystal structure. (l) TEM image showing three colliding clusters. The scale bar is 10 nm. (r) Relative positions of molecules derived from the X-ray diffraction crystal structure are overlaid (brown)...
Left and right figures are schematic diagrams of glassy solid in two and three dimensions. Modality of the dynamics of glassy solid in different dimensions is illustrated. In three dimensions, a particle vibrates inside a cage formed by neighboring...
Dr. Anita Ho-Baillie, a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics at UNSW, with the new perovskite cell. Credit: Rob Largent/UNSW
They’re flexible, cheap to produce and simple to make – which is why perovskites are the...
A new system to monitor radiation damage in a material creates acoustic oscillations by using two pulsed laser beams aimed at a sample, in such a way that the light waves of the two beams cause an interference pattern....
(A) Schematic of hand structure and components; (B) image of the fabricated hand mounted on a robotic arm with each finger actuated at ΔP = 100 kPa.Credit: Cornell University
Most robots achieve grasping and tactile sensing through motorized means, which...
The diamond anvil the scientists used to make the nano-sized Lonsdaleite. Credit: Jamie Kidston, ANU
The Australian National University (ANU) has led an international project to make a diamond that's predicted to be harder than a jeweller's diamond and useful...
This foldable keyboard, created by Michigan State University engineer Nelson Sepulveda and his research team, operates by touch; no battery is needed. Sepulveda developed a new way to harvest energy from human motion using a pioneering device called a...
Wearable information terminals (left) and large rollable-screen TV (right) are made using super-flexible LC technology covering large areas, with high-resolution at low-cost.Credit: Image courtesy of Tohoku University
Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a super flexible liquid crystal (LC) device,...
(a,b) Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo) (c) great gray owl (Strix nebulosi) and (d) snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus). Credit: Ian A.Clark, Conor A. Daly, William Devenport, W .Nathan Alexander,Nigel Peake, Justin W. Jaworski, Stewart Glegg
Many species of owl are...
In a landmark experiment at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, scientists used an X-ray laser to capture the first snapshots of a chemical interaction between two biomolecules in real time and at an atomic level. It involves 'riboswitches' from bacterial...
Researchers used acoustic waves with a frequency of 20 megaHertz to manipulate fluids, droplets and particles in nanoslits that are 50 to 250 nanometers tall. To fill the channels, researchers applied the acoustic waves in the same direction as...
