General Â鶹ÒùÔºics
Oct 12, 2021
Enhancing piezoelectric properties under pressure
Stress enhances the properties of a promising material for future technologies.
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Bio & Medicine
Oct 11, 2021
Bioinspired electromechanical nanogenerators to regulate cell activity
The extracellular matrix (ECM) including three-dimensional (3D) network and bioelectricity can profoundly influence cell development, migration, and functional expression. In a new report now published on Science Advances, ...
Nanophysics
Oct 4, 2021
A breakthrough in droplet manipulation
Researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a key breakthrough in droplet manipulation. They have discovered an innovative way to navigate liquids on a surface in ...
Nanophysics
Oct 1, 2021
How to power electronics using mechanical motion
The push toward low powered, energy-saving devices has been a direction the electronics industry has always pursued. The switch to low powered LED lighting is a good example of this trend. Another avenue is the development ...
Soft Matter
Sep 14, 2021
Homemade face masks work; effectiveness varies depending on how they are made
Since the spread of virus causing COVID-19 continues, experts recommended wearing homemade facemasks when surgical or N95 masks are not available to prevent the spread of the pandemic. While such makeshift masks are more ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 23, 2021
High-efficiency ultraviolet light emitting diodes to sterilize pathogens, including COVID-19
ECE Ph.D. student Ayush Pandey details the research led by Prof. Zetian Mi on using high efficiency ultraviolet light emitting diodes to sterilize pathogens. This research, "High-efficiency AlGaN/GaN/AlGaN tunnel junction ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 12, 2021
New semiconductor device possibilities using black phosphorous
Stress and strain, applied in just the right manner, can sometimes produce amazing results.
General Â鶹ÒùÔºics
Jul 29, 2021
Spin-sonics: Acoustic wave gets the electrons spinning
Researchers have detected the rolling movement of a nano-acoustic wave predicted by the famous physicist and Nobel prize winner Lord Rayleigh in 1885. This phenomenon can find applications in acoustic quantum technologies ...
Materials Science
Jul 23, 2021
Autonomous self-healing seen in piezoelectric molecular crystals
A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Kolkata, the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and RWTH Aachen University, has found a type of piezoelectric molecular crystal that ...
Nanophysics
Jul 20, 2021
Composite piezoelectric materials extracted from common waste products
A research team led by Professor Jyh-Ming Wu of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan has recently developed two composite piezoelectric materials extracted ...
