Carbon nanotubes grown in a furnace aren't always straight. Sometimes they curve and kink, and sometimes they branch off in several directions. Researchers realized they now had the tools available to examine just how tough those branches are.
Dec 7th, 2015
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Engineers have developed a very tiny wireless temperature sensor that is powered in a very special way: from the radio waves that are part of the sensor's wireless network. This means that the sensor needs not even a single wire, nor a battery that would have to be replaced.
Dec 7th, 2015
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System combines biological ion channels with solid-state transistors to create a new kind of electronics.
Dec 7th, 2015
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Using a new procedure, researchers can now produce extremely thin and robust, yet highly porous semiconductor layers.
Dec 7th, 2015
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A new transistor overcomes one of the fundamental limitations of conventional transistors and reduces power dissipation by over 90 percent.
Dec 7th, 2015
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Engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that can incorporate temperature sensors, LED lights, and other electronics, as well as tiny, drug-delivering reservoirs and channels. The 'smart wound dressing' releases medicine in response to changes in skin temperature and can be designed to light up if, say, medicine is running low.
Dec 7th, 2015
Read moreElectrical and information engineering researchers have developed a new silicon alignment and packaging system that could improve the manufacturing efficiency of biomedical and measurement sensors.
Dec 7th, 2015
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Researchers have uncovered the process by which mollusks manufacture nacre - commonly known as 'mother of pearl'. Knowing how it's made could lead to new methods to synthesize a variety of new materials with as yet unguessed properties.
Dec 4th, 2015
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A new method for building 'drawbridges' between metal nanoparticles may allow electronics makers to build full-color displays using light-scattering nanoparticles that are similar to the gold materials that medieval artisans used to create red stained-glass.
Dec 4th, 2015
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Thermal ablation with magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery is a noninvasive technique for treating fibroids and cancer. New research shows that combining the technique with chemotherapy can allow complete destruction of tumors in mice.
Dec 4th, 2015
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A strategy for generating stable lipid bilayers could simplify the study of biologically important membrane proteins.
Dec 4th, 2015
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By attaching a hydrogen peroxide reporter protein to cellular microtubule structures, researchers have developed the first sensor able to show the location of the key cellular signaling chemical inside living cells with high resolution over time.
Dec 3rd, 2015
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Despite being thousands of times thinner than a sheet of paper and hundreds of times thinner than household cling wrap or aluminum foil, corrugated plates of aluminum oxide spring back to their original shape after being bent and twisted.
Dec 3rd, 2015
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Using a novel microscope that combines standard through-the-lens viewing with a technique called scatterfield imaging, researchers accurately measured patterned features on a silicon wafer that were 30 times smaller than the wavelength of light (450 nanometers) used to examine them.
Dec 3rd, 2015
Read moreScientists have developed nanoparticles that swell and burst when exposed to near-infrared laser light.
Dec 3rd, 2015
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Researchers who pioneered the development of laser-induced graphene have configured their discovery into flexible, solid-state microsupercapacitors that rival the best available for energy storage and delivery.
Dec 3rd, 2015
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