Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new method for producing atomically-thin semiconducting crystals that could one day enable more powerful and compact electronic devices.
By using specially-treated silicon surfaces to tailor the crystals’ size and shape, the researchers have found a potentially faster and less expensive way to produce next-generation semiconductor crystals for microchips. The crystalline materials produced this way could in turn enable new scientific discoveries and accelerate technological developments in quantum computing, consumer electronics, and higher efficiency solar cells and batteries.
November 18, 2019 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, microchips, nanomaterials, quantum computing, semiconductor crystals, Thomas J. Kempa
| Category: Chemistry, Computer Science, Natural Sciences, Technology
Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Northwestern universities have discovered how to control the shape of nanoparticles that move DNA through the body and have shown that the shapes of these carriers may make a big difference in how well they work in treating cancer and other diseases.
October 12, 2012 Tags: gene therapy, materials science, nanobiotechnology, nanomaterials, nanomedicine, nanoparticles
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Technology
Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that, under the right conditions, newly developed nanocrystalline materials exhibit surprising activity in the tiny spaces between the geometric clusters of atoms called nanocrystals, from which they are made.
February 23, 2010 Tags: materials science, mechanical engineering, nanomaterials, nanotechnology
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Technology