The new electrode design overcomes the low electrical conductivity issue of (oxy)hydroxide catalysts, improving hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions. The electrode combines metallic nickel-tungsten ...

Electronics keep shrinking, but silicon is starting to run into physical limits. To go smaller, researchers are turning to ...

An international joint research team has successfully achieved a breakthrough improvement in the junction properties between graphene and superconducting electrodes. This 2D superconducting junction ...

Solar cell technologies continue to advance and are becoming more efficient. Inorganic solar cells have the highest efficiencies to date, and out of all the different inorganic solar cells, perovskite ...

Physicists in the US are the first to have created a locally-gated p-n junction in graphene, which is a 2D sheet of carbon just one atom thick. The charge density in the device is controlled by ...

Over the past century, experimental physicists and engineers have developed sophisticated methods to create semiconducting silicon-based devices, such as diodes, transistors and memory elements, of ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Researchers worldwide are working on fast and low-cost strategies to sequence DNA, that is, to read off the content of our genome. Particularly promising for future genome ...

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology researchers have now designed an electrode with Schottky Junction formed at the interface of metallic Ni-W5N4 and semiconducting NiFeOOH. The design ...