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Scientists Make New Transistors Working Without Electricity Supporting

“Chinese researchers developed new transistors with all optical inputs which could work without electricity supporting making them applicable in some electricity forbidden environment. Transistors are the most important semiconductor components widely used in electronic equipment like computer, mobile phone and …

Nano-Kirigami: “Paper-cut” Provides Model for 3D Intelligent Nanofabrication

“Kirigami (also called “paper-cuts” or “jianzhi”) is one of the most traditional Chinese folk arts. It is widely used in window decorations, gift cards, festivals, and ceremonies, etc. Kirigami involves cutting and folding flat objects into 3D shapes. Recently, the …

Researchers Fabricate New Type of Cellulose Nanopaper

“Cellulose nanopaper (CNP) has potential application in the fields of electronic devices, visual display substrates, batteries, barrier material due to its renewability, light-weight, low thermal expansion, excellent mechanical properties and optical properties. However, CNP is sensitive to moisture due to …

Chinese Researchers Discover New Superconductor by Pressurization

“Chinese scientists have discovered a new material that can conduct electricity with zero resistance, or superconduct upon heavy compression. In the research, scientists took a close look at molybdenum phosphide (MoP), a newly identified triply degenerate fermions material via application …

Scientists Fabricate Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells with Record High Stabilized Efficiency

“A research team led by Prof. LIU Shengzhong from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Dr. JIN Zhiwen from Shaanxi Normal University fabricated inorganic perovskite solar cells with a record high stabilized …

INEST-FDS Team makes breakthroughs in 3D printing of Fusion Reactor Key Components

“Researchers from Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology (INEST), Chinese Academy of Sciences•FDS Team have successfully created and tested a key component module of fusion reactor using 3D printing. They applied 3D printing technology in creating the first wall …

Researchers develop new flexible sensor for highly sensitive measurement in small spaces

“Researchers have developed a new flexible sensor with high sensitivity that is designed to perform variety of chemical and biological analyses in very small spaces. The sensor’s small size means that it could potentially be used inside blood vessels …

USTC Realizes Small-Packet-and-Long-Distance Quantum Key Distribution

“The round-robin-differential-phase-shift (RRDPS) is a new quantum key distribution protocol proposed by Japanese and American scientists in 2014. This protocol can estimate the information leakage without monitoring signal disturbance parameters, which breaks through the design of quantum key distribution protocol …

CIOMP researchers developed an ultrasensitive label-free microfiber coupler biosensor

“Recently, an ultrasensitive label-free microfiber coupler biosensor was developed by Prof.’s Yihui Wu’s group in State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, CIOMP. Such immunosensors have huge application potential for the detection of cardiac or cancer biomarkers due to …