Spectrometer is small enough to fit in your smartphone
MIT engineers demonstrated a working spectrometer that took a huge leap in scale from a huge, bulky lab gear to ...
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New graphene treatment may help the wonder material turn mainstream
Graphene, a 2-D array of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagon shape, is one of the most researched material today. ...
Forget incandescent light bulbs, make way for quantum dot LEDs
The quantum dot device structure shown with a transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image of a cross-section of a real device. ...
Quantum dots with nanowires yield greater solar cell efficiency
For some years now, scientists have been exploring the use of quantum dots as the basis for a novel type ...
New method allows large molecules to get squeezed through cell membranes
A group of researchers at MIT have devised a new method for infiltrating cells with large molecules such as nanoparticles ...
First single RGB laser devised using quantum dots
Most digital devices today, like displays or blue-ray disks, use lasers which emit the colors red, green and blue, which ...
Solar paint promises to turn any surface into a solar cell
Researchers have successfully managed to create a "solar paint" made out of quantum dots, which exhibits similar properties to multifilm solar ...