Innovations

This is How Clothes Are Storing Information Invisibly, Sans Electronics

A new type of smart fabric developed at the University of Washington could pave the way for jackets that store invisible passcodes and open...

Electronic Skin Glows When it Gets Hurt

Electronic skin technologies for prosthetics and robots can detect the slightest touch or breeze. But oddly, the sensors that make this possible do not...

Will Atomic Scale Moiré Patterns Push Electronic Boundaries

Moiré patterns occur on displays when the pixelation is at almost the same scale as a photographed pattern or when two thin layers of...

This is how you ‘Stencil’ 2D Materials for Next-Gen Electronics

Two discoveries could provide a simple and effective way to “stencil” high-quality 2D materials in precise locations and overcome a barrier to their use...

Transparent Solar Technology Represents Wave of the Future

See-through solar materials that can be applied to windows represent a massive source of untapped energy and could harvest as much power as bigger,...

Graphene Enables High-Speed Electronics on Flexible Materials

A flexible detector for terahertz frequencies (1000 gigahertz) has been developed by Chalmers researchers using graphene transistors on plastic substrates. It is the first...

This Honeycomb Material Could Power A Leap in Quantum Technology

The quantum revolution that is poised to transform computing and communications is all worked out, in theory. The practicalities, however, are proving stubborn: manipulating...

Nanodiamonds Found to Prevent Lithium Battery Fires

Scientists researching battery-related fires and explosions, such as the incidents that got Samsung Galaxy Note 7s banned from airline flights last year, took the...

‘Unruly’ Electrons in Graphene Has Now Been Tamed by Scientists

Until now, that is. Scientists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick have learned how to tame the unruly electrons in graphene, paving the way for the...

Liquid Metal Created on Stove-Top Yields Ultrathin Materials for Faster Electronics

Researchers from RMIT University used a non-toxic liquid gallium metal alloy to synthesize two-dimensional sheets of materials used in electronic components quickly, cheaply and...

Future Smartwatches Could Sense Hand Movement Using Ultrasound Imaging

The research team led by Professor Mike Fraser, Asier Marzo and Jess McIntosh from the Bristol Interaction Group (BIG) at the University of Bristol,...

World’s First ‘Molecular Robot’ Capable of Building Molecules

Scientists at The University of Manchester have created the world's first 'molecular robot' that is capable of performing basic tasks including building other molecules. The...

Quantum Materials Sensitive Spin Detection for a Next Generation Electronics

A new microscopy method developed by an ORNL-led team has four movable probing tips, is sensitive to the spin of moving electrons and produces...

Palladium Diselenide a 2D pentagonal material introduced

Palladium diselenide shows promise in electronics and photonics. By exfoliating bulk crystals of palladium(IV) selenide, chemists have prepared the first ever pentagonal 2D material....

Self Driving Car: MIT’s New Innovative Camera Will Keep an Eye in the Corners for...

Many of today’s self driving car use automated systems that work in tandem with a collection of sensors and cameras. For example, Tesla’s Autopilot relies on radar...

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