Catalysts do several surprising things to assist with daily life — from bread making to turning raw materials into fuels more efficiently. Now, SLAC researchers have developed a way to speed up the discovery process for a promising new class of…
Category: Nanotech
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Scientists fuel sustainable future with catalyst for hydrogen from ammonia
Scientists have created a catalyst for hydrogen generation from ammonia that becomes more active with time, and by counting atoms revealed changes that boost the catalyst’s performance.
A research team from the University of Nottingham’s School…
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Breakthrough in 2D material growth opens doors to cleaner energy and next-generation technology
A breakthrough in decoding the growth process of Hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN), a 2D material, and its nanostructures on metal substrates could pave the way for more efficient electronics, cleaner energy solutions and greener chemical…
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Canon Delivers Nanoimprint Lithography to Compete With EUV
In September, Canon shipped the first commercial version of a technology that could one day upend the making of the most advanced silicon chips. Called nanoimprint lithography (NIL), it’s capable of patterning circuit features as small as 14…
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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2024
I like to think I can learn something about our readers from the list of most read semiconductor articles. What I think I’ve learned from this year’s list is that you are as obsessed as I am with packing more and more computing power into…
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TSMC’s Arizona Plant to Start Making Advanced Chips
After years of planning, building, geopolitical wrangling, and workforce challenges, the world’s largest semiconductor foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is officially starting mass production at an advanced…
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Self-Assembly Trick Makes Transistors and Diodes
Using liquid metal, scientists have devised a new way to make electronics that assemble themselves. With prototypes including nanoscale to microscale transistors and diodes, the researchers suggest their research might help greatly simplify…
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Computing Memory: Combining Types Could Curb AI Energy Usage
The future of memory is massive, diverse, and tightly integrated with processing. That was the message of an invited talk this week at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco. H.-S. Philip Wong, an electrical engineer at…
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