It has long been accepted that such a thin layer of lubrication between sliding surfaces alternates along with the cycles of sticking and slipping; it starts as a solid, turns to liquid in the slipping phase and then back to a solid when the surfaces stick once again. But a recent paper suggests this model is incorrect.
Sep 3rd, 2015
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New family of luminescent materials could find broad uses in chemical and biological detectors.
Sep 3rd, 2015
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Scientists show how clusters funnel atoms to create oxygen pools that benefit biofuels, fuel cells, and sensors.
Sep 2nd, 2015
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Scientists have theoretically determined that the properties of atom-thick sheets of boron depend on where those atoms land.
Sep 2nd, 2015
Read moreResearchers report the development of a biodegradable nanogenerator made with DNA that can harvest the energy from everyday motion and turn it into electrical power.
Sep 2nd, 2015
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Innovative materials adsorb carbon dioxide via an unprecedented cooperative insertion mechanism.
Sep 2nd, 2015
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Scientists, using computer generated simulation have predicted the existence of a new two-dimensional carbon material, a 'patchwork' analogue of graphene called phagraphene.
Sep 2nd, 2015
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Crystal nanostructures on the sea sapphire's back appear differently depending on the angle of reflection.
Sep 2nd, 2015
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This microfluidic technology uses microscale electric field gradients, acting on extremely small samples, to tell the difference between the two strains (antibiotic-resistant and antibiotic-susceptible) of Staphylococcus epidermidis.
Sep 2nd, 2015
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By combining designer quantum dot light-emitters with spectrally matched photonic mirrors, a team of scientists created solar cells that collect blue photons at 30 times the concentration of conventional solar cells, the highest luminescent concentration factor ever recorded.
Sep 2nd, 2015
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Engineers have created flat devices capable of manipulating light in ways that are very difficult or impossible to achieve with conventional optical components.
Sep 2nd, 2015
Read moreResearchers have designed a new kind of hierarchical nanostructure that is stronger than previous lattice structures and bounces back with less damage after compression.
Sep 2nd, 2015
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The inner space of carbon nanotubes can act as a template for the synthesis of nanodiamond-like carbon chains. As a team of scientists report, this templated polymerization approach paves the way for the design of novel one-dimensional nanomaterials.
Sep 2nd, 2015
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Electronics is based on measuring the tiny electrical charge of electrons passing through electronic circuits. An alternative approach under development is spintronics, which instead relies not on electrons' charge, but on another of their fundamental quantum-mechanical properties: spin.
Sep 2nd, 2015
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Researchers have demonstrated the world's first stretchable and conformable thin-film transistor (TFT) driven LED display laminated into textiles.
Sep 2nd, 2015
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A team of scientists have measured a bizarre effect in quantum physics, in which individual particles of light are said to have been 'squeezed' - an achievement which at least one textbook had written off as hopeless.
Sep 1st, 2015
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