Researchers have engineered a low-cost plastic material that could become the basis for clothing that cools the wearer, reducing the need for energy-consuming air conditioning.
Sep 2nd, 2016
Read moreUsing a novel spectroscopic technique, scientists have made a much-needed breakthrough in cutting-edge photovoltaics.
Sep 2nd, 2016
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Stretchable, flexible, reliable memory device inspired by the brain.
Sep 2nd, 2016
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An innovative deposition system unlocks possible quantum applications inside multifunctional metal oxide thin films.
Sep 2nd, 2016
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Researchers discover easy way to make graphene for flexible and printable electronics, energy storage, and catalysis.
Sep 1st, 2016
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Engineers have developed a laser-treatment process that allows them to use printed graphene for electric circuits and electrodes - even on paper and other fragile surfaces. The technology could lead to many real-world, low-cost applications for printed graphene electronics, including sensors, fuel cells and medical devices.
Sep 1st, 2016
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Successful deposition of silicon and gallium nitride at low temperature could allow three-dimensional control of thin films and integration of previously incompatible microelectronics materials.
Sep 1st, 2016
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A novel coating made from carbon nanotubes that, when layered around an aluminum-conductor composite core transmission line, reduces the line's operating temperature and significantly improves its overall transmission efficiency.
Sep 1st, 2016
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Scientists have discovered how to get a solid material to act like a liquid without actually turning it into liquid, potentially opening a new world of possibilities for the electronic, optics and computing industries.
Sep 1st, 2016
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Researchers develop bio-inspired liquid membrane with nanopores that could make clean coal a reality.
Sep 1st, 2016
Read morePhysicists, joining the fundamental pursuit of using electron spins to store and manipulate information, have demonstrated a new approach to doing so, which could prove useful in the application of low-power computer memory.
Sep 1st, 2016
Read moreScientists developed mathematical models to characterize proteomics patterns of Caco-2/HT29-MTX cells exposed for three and twenty four hours to two kinds of important nanoparticles: multi-walled carbon nanotubes and TiO2 nanobelts.
Sep 1st, 2016
Read moreStabilising materials with transient magnetic characteristics makes it easier to study them.
Sep 1st, 2016
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Branchlike deposits grow on lithium electrode surfaces in two ways, one much more damaging.
Sep 1st, 2016
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New designs may help purify water, diagnose disease in remote regions of world.
Sep 1st, 2016
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An ultrafast 'electron camera' has made the first direct snapshots of atomic nuclei in molecules that are vibrating within millionths of a billionth of a second after being hit by a laser pulse.
Aug 31st, 2016
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