The authors developed a theoretical framework and experimental approach to achieve orbital hybridization in graphene-based quantum dots. They proposed that anisotropic potentials in artificial ...

Scientists at Macquarie University and the University of New South Wales have broken through significant barriers to ...

The use of carbon quantum dots in wound healing accelerates recovery, leveraging their unique properties for effective antimicrobial and regenerative therapies.

material called graphene with special quantum characteristics. Scientists have since explored how optical and electrical properties of graphene and other 2D materials change when layered on top of ...

Quantum dots are nanoscale man-made crystals that have the ability to convert a spectrum of light into different colors. Each dot emits a different color depending on its size. (Image: RNGS ...

Argonne scientists have unveiled new methods for controlling material properties. The breakthrough enables researchers to ...

Nanoparticles of semiconductors (quantum dots) were theorized in the 1970s and initially created in the early 1980s. If semiconductor particles are made small enough, quantum effects come into play, ...

If one side of a conducting or semiconducting material is heated while the other remains cool, charge carriers move from the ...