The Centre for Process Innovation is leading a European collaborative project that aims to transform food waste into a sustainable source of significant economic added value, namely graphene and renewable hydrogen.
Jan 13th, 2015
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New research helps pave the way toward highly energy-efficient zinc oxide-based micro energy harvesting devices with applications in portable communications, healthcare and environmental monitoring, and more.
Jan 13th, 2015
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New device offers a simpler and potentially less expensive way to detect DNA and other biomolecules through changes in surface charge density or solution pH.
Jan 13th, 2015
Read moreUnder appropriate conditions, a cloud of several hundred atoms can behave like a single atom, virtually developing super-power. Upon excitation with an ultraviolet laser into highly excited states, the atoms start to interact with each other.
Jan 13th, 2015
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A research team has made two advances in multiferroic materials, including the ability to integrate them on a silicon chip, which will allow the development of new electronic memory devices. The researchers have already created prototypes of the devices and are in the process of testing them.
Jan 13th, 2015
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In order to harness nanogold's potential, researchers have to make sense of its structures and behaviours, which are in many ways completely different from those of typical chunks of gold.
Jan 13th, 2015
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An international group of scientists has developed a new method for effectively extracting and analyzing cancer cells circulating in patients' blood.
Jan 13th, 2015
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The Penn State Center for Nanoscale Science, a National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), has been awarded a six-year, $15 million grant to continue its research and education program in the development and application of nanoscale materials.
Jan 12th, 2015
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Researchers develop a metal-free atom transfer radical polymerization process that uses an organic-based photocatalyst.
Jan 12th, 2015
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Silicene is the thinnest form of silicon. It is metallic, has graphene-like mobile carriers and can behave like a semiconductor. The material could lead to even smaller electronics but challenges remain.
Jan 12th, 2015
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Silicon-based thin-film solar cell with a supplementary organic layer can utilise infrared light as well.
Jan 12th, 2015
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Scientists are learning how the properties of water molecules on the surface of metal oxides can be used to better control these minerals and use them to make products such as more efficient semiconductors for organic light emitting diodes and solar cells, safer vehicle glass in fog and frost, and more environmentally friendly chemical sensors for industrial applications.
Jan 12th, 2015
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New family of materials produces 'twin' electrical charges on single molecules, potentially paving the way for easy manufacture of more efficient solar devices.
Jan 12th, 2015
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Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley team engineers the shape and properties of nanoscale strips of graphene.
Jan 12th, 2015
Read moreAn ultra-thin nanomaterial is at the heart of a major breakthrough by scientists who are in a global race to invent a cheaper, lighter and more powerful rechargeable battery for electric vehicles.
Jan 12th, 2015
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A new type of 'nanowire' crystals that fuses semiconducting and metallic materials on the atomic scale could lay the foundation for future semiconducting electronics.
Jan 12th, 2015
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