A paper-based test enables a rapid analysis of whether a compound - in this case, morphine - is present in a given sample. Possible future applications of the developed test include drug testing at workplaces and in connection with traffic control.
Apr 13th, 2015
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Platinum's scarcity hinders widespread use of fuel cells, which provide power efficiently and without pollutants. Replacing some or all of this rare and expensive metal with common metals in a reactive, highly tunable nanoparticle form may expand fuel cell use.
Apr 13th, 2015
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Scientists have demonstrated a facile methodology to obtain a high-performance and hyper-stretchable elastic-composite generator using very long silver nanowire-based stretchable electrodes.
Apr 13th, 2015
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Take a material that is a focus of interest in the quest for advanced solar cells. Discover a 'freshman chemistry level' technique for growing that material into high-efficiency, ultra-small lasers.
Apr 13th, 2015
Read moreResearchers have developed a method that significantly prolongs the lives of charges in organic electronic devices.
Apr 13th, 2015
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Researchers have designed a smectic liquid crystal that overcomes many of the challenges posed by organic field effect transistor materials.
Apr 13th, 2015
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Researchers have encoded quantum information in silicon using simple electrical pulses for the first time, bringing the construction of affordable large-scale quantum computers one step closer to reality.
Apr 12th, 2015
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NASA has selected UT Arlington as one of four U.S. institutions to develop improved methods for oxygen recovery and reuse aboard human spacecraft, a technology the agency says is crucial to 'enable our human journey to Mars and beyond'.
Apr 11th, 2015
Read moreResearchers have generated multifunctional materials with different capacities such as responding to thermal stimuli, changing colour, being magnetic and presenting movement at the microscale as a result of a variation in their molecular structure.
Apr 10th, 2015
Read moreResearchers developed a material that acts as a superhighway for ions. The material could make batteries more powerful, change how gaseous fuel is turned into liquid fuel and help power plants burn coal and natural gas more efficiently.
Apr 10th, 2015
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Chemists from Europe's Graphene Flagship review the potential for graphene-organic composite materials in electronics. The researchers show how organic semiconductors can be used to better process graphene, and to tune its properties for particular applications.
Apr 10th, 2015
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Scientists have developed new imaging techniques to watch dangerous brain tumor cells respond to treatment in real time.
Apr 10th, 2015
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Scientists have made an important step towards a deeper understanding of metal-semiconductor interfaces. By means of a novel experimental approach the researchers investigated the distribution of the electronic charge at these interfaces on the atomic scale.
Apr 10th, 2015
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Carbon nanotubes insert into artificial and active cell membranes, reproducing major features of biological channels.
Apr 10th, 2015
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Researchers have shown that dramatic changes in the electronic properties of nanometre-sized chunks of gold occur in well-defined size range.
Apr 10th, 2015
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Researchers designed a molecule that would incorporate a number of desirable liquid crystal qualities, in particular the smectic E phase. Low ordered liquid crystal phases form droplets at their melting temperature, but the smectic E phase has the advantage of retaining the thin-film shape.
Apr 10th, 2015
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