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Edible electronics made from kitchen ingredients keep fruit fresh and harvest electricity

A fruit coating made from kitchen ingredients harvests electricity from humid air to power sensors while suppressing bacteria and extending shelf life up to 3.4 times.

December 19, 2025 Read more

Research reinvents MXene synthesis

A 40-year-old forgotten paper helped develop a faster, more efficient method of building futuristic 2D materials at a fraction of the cost.

December 18, 2025 Read more

New materials conduct ions in solids as easily as in liquids

The new materials conduct ions equally well as liquids, liquid crystals, and solids, with no steep decrease in ion movement when the salt solidifies.

December 18, 2025 Read more

Nanoparticle vaccine strategy could protect against Ebola and other deadly filoviruses

Scientists turn nanoparticles into virus 'showcases' to help the immune system recognize deadly threats.

December 18, 2025 Read more

Researchers break speed and scale barriers in 3D nanofabrication with new meta-optics platform

Tiny metalenses split a laser into 120,000+ points, letting 3D nanoprinting cover wafer-size areas with 113 nm detail at 1,000x speed.

December 18, 2025 Read more

Detecting the hidden magnetism of altermagnets

New method identifies altermagnets by signatures from circularly polarized light, validated in MnTe, speeding discovery for faster, efficient spintronics.

December 18, 2025 Read more

Researchers observe flat-band ultrastrong coupling

Researchers observed and verified flat-band ultrastrong coupling of optical phonons and surface plasmon polaritons, enabling new polariton tech.

December 18, 2025 Read more

Sustainable production of high-quality perovskite solar cells

Researchers have found a new way to produce perovskite photovoltaic modules in an environmentally friendly manner and on commercial scale.

December 18, 2025 Read more

Nanostructure control halves core loss in iron-based soft magnetic ribbons

New processing tunes nanostructure and magnetic domains in iron-based amorphous ribbons, cutting core loss by over 50% for high-frequency power electronics.

December 18, 2025 Read more

Ion-beam method makes magnetic optical materials for faster data-center links

Nanoscale maze-like magnetic patterns form reliably across strained substrates, removing a key bottleneck for faster, more efficient data-center optical links.

December 18, 2025 Read more

Urchin-like single-atom nanozymes show enhanced chemodynamic tumor therapy

Sea-urchin-like copper single-atom nanozyme shows needle length boosts cellular uptake and improves chemodynamic tumor therapy by generating toxic radicals.

December 18, 2025 Read more

Wearable sensor tracks disinfectant exposure in real time

A wearable sensor monitors disinfectant exposure on skin and plant leaves in real time, supporting health, agriculture, and environmental safety.

December 18, 2025 Read more

Machine Learning model predicts protein binding on gold nanoclusters for biomedicine

A generalizable ML framework predicts protein interactions with ligand-stabilized gold nanoclusters, supporting faster design of bioimaging, sensing and drug delivery materials.

December 17, 2025 Read more

6-Axis alignment system for PICs upgraded with new controller

PI's latest 6-axis alignment system is available in one-sided and double-sided configurations, upright for PIC assembly or inverted, for photonics wafer-probing applications.

December 17, 2025 Read more

Quantum batteries charge faster when engineered to mimic black hole information scrambling

Quantum spin chains that simulate black hole physics can boost quantum battery charging power and reduce charging times by exploiting rapid information scrambling dynamics.

December 17, 2025 Read more

3D-printed helixes show promise as THz optical metamaterials

Researchers have optimized and 3D-printed helix structures as optical materials for Terahertz (THz) frequencies, a potential way to address a technology gap for next-generation telecommunications, non-destructive evaluation, chemical/biological sensing and more.

December 17, 2025 Read more