Team's e-whiskers may be a touchstone for future of electronic skin
Researchers used shape-memory polymers to create artificial, electronic versions called e-whiskers, which mimic the properties of the real thing.
Jun 26th, 2018
Read moreResearchers used shape-memory polymers to create artificial, electronic versions called e-whiskers, which mimic the properties of the real thing.
Jun 26th, 2018
Read moreHigh tech metal particles may inadvertently take a toll on aquatic life.
Jun 26th, 2018
Read moreAn innovative technique for growing large, uniform sheets of single-layer molybdenum disulfide could lead to new flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices.
Jun 25th, 2018
Read moreThiol molecules drive gold atoms to form a forest of nanowires with useful properties.
Jun 25th, 2018
Read moreResearchers have developed a single-step technique for creating nanoemulsions that is faster, more energy efficient, and smaller than previous methods.
Jun 23rd, 2018
Read moreInfrared cameras are the heat-sensing eyes that help drones find their targets even in the dead of night or through heavy fog. Hiding from such detectors could become much easier, thanks to a new cloaking material that renders objects -- and people -- practically invisible.
Jun 22nd, 2018
Read moreResearchers have discovered that a genuine feature of superconductors -- quantum Abrikosov vortices of supercurrent -- can also exist in an ordinary nonsuperconducting metal put into contact with a superconductor.
Jun 22nd, 2018
Read moreIn the photoelectric effect, a photon ejects an electron from a material. Researchers have now used attosecond laser pulses to measure the time evolution of this effect in molecules. From their results they can deduce the exact location of a photoionization event.
Jun 22nd, 2018
Read moreIn a recent study, researchers have finally been able to probe the phase transitions that occur in thin films of vanadium dioxide using resonant soft X-ray holography.
Jun 22nd, 2018
Read moreElegant techniques of trapping and polarizing atoms open vistas for beta-decay tests of fundamental symmetries, key to understanding the most basic forces and particles constituting our universe.
Jun 22nd, 2018
Read moreA new supercapacitor could be a competitive alternative to lithium-ion batteries.
Jun 22nd, 2018
Read moreA nickelate thin film senses electric field changes analogous to the electroreception sensing organ in sharks, which detects the bioelectric fields of prey.
Jun 22nd, 2018
Read moreMaterials could find applications in water purification, solar energy storage, body armor.
Jun 21st, 2018
Read moreSpray coating could make perovskite an inexpensive alternative to silicon for solar panels.
Jun 21st, 2018
Read moreResearchers demonstrated a facile wet-chemical method to directly grow organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite nanocrystals on surfaces of dispersible MoS2 nanosheets.
Jun 21st, 2018
Read morePrinting microelectrode arrays on gelatin and other soft materials could pave the way for new medical diagnostics tools.
Jun 21st, 2018
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