Scientists Create the Largest Atomically Thin Gold Films to Make Electronics Weightless and Invisible
Updated: 2025-01-20 03:50:00
XPANCEO, a deep tech company developing the next generation of computing through its first smart contact lenses, in collaboration with Nobel laureate Konstantin S. Novoselov (University of Manchester, National University of Singapore), has developed an innovative method for producing biocompatible, transparent, ultrathin gold films with no area restriction.
Understanding hBN epitaxial growth on Ru(0001) through DFT and microkinetic modeling highlights key mechanisms and the impact of substrate temperature.
Rice University researchers reveal carbon nanotube fibers can be fully recycled, maintaining structure and properties, advancing sustainability in materials.
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An advantage of having a long-running blog like this one, which is now twenty years old, is that it gives me an easy way of checking out some of the topics that were most exercising me at various points in the past. But it’s still a bit of a shock to realise that it’s been … Continue reading "Ten years of banging on about productivity"