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Making flexible electronics with nanowire networks

If flexible smartphones, e-paper and a new generation of smart watches are to succeed, they can't use existing touchscreen technology.

Jun 5th, 2017

New microscopy technique for nanomechanical subsurface imaging

Nondestructive scanning near-field thickness resonance acoustic microscopy (SNTRAM) with sharp phase contrast and mechanical sensitivity provides a wide range of applications in nanomechanical imaging of semiconductor structures and a wide range of other materials.

Jun 4th, 2017

Overcoming hysteresis in carbon nanotube field effect transistors

Researchers present a facile approach to overcoming hysteresis to less than 0.5% of the gate-source voltage sweep range: rather than to eliminate traps, they aim to reduce the effect that traps have on the CNTs.

Jun 3rd, 2017

Strong hydrogels that respond to force, heat and light

Novel hydrogels not only exhibited remarkable optical response from pale yellow to purple color and from green to red fluorescence under external stimuli of force, heat, and UV light, but also simply reversed its color back to the original one by white light.

Jun 3rd, 2017

New ceramic nanofiber 'sponges' could be used for flexible insulation, water purification

Researchers have found a way to make ultralight sponge-like materials from nanoscale ceramic fibers. The highly porous, compressible and heat-resistant sponges could have numerous uses, from water purification devices to flexible insulating materials.

Jun 2nd, 2017

Observation of the phase transition of liquid crystal defects for the first time

Scientists observed the phase transition of topological defects formed by liquid crystal materials for the first time.

Jun 2nd, 2017

Self-healing, highly sensitive nanostructured electronic sensors

Researchers have developed a facile and effective approach to fabricate spontaneous self-healing and highly sensitive sensors based on metal-ligand coordination and hierarchical structure design.

Jun 2nd, 2017

Scientists design molecular system for artificial photosynthesis

System is designed to mimic key functions of the photosynthetic center in green plants to convert solar energy into chemical energy stored by hydrogen fuel.

Jun 2nd, 2017

Conductive ink improves mechanical durability of printed e-textiles

Researchers have developed textile-permeable viscous ink which can be directly screen/stencil printed on textile substrates. This conductive composite enables highly conductive and stretchable wirings on textile with a simple and inexpensive way.

Jun 2nd, 2017

Lasers pick up good vibrations

The changes to the structure of a light-sensing protein have been tracked over incredibly short time scales.

Jun 2nd, 2017

Breaking Newton's Law

In the quantum world, our intuition for moving objects is strongly challenged and may sometimes even completely fail. Experimental physicists have found a quantum particle which shows an intriguing oscillatory back-and-forth motion in a one-dimensional atomic gas.