Innovations

    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...

    Exotic Quantum Particle Observed in Bilayer Graphene

    A team led by Cory Dean, assistant professor of physics at Columbia University, and James Hone, Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia...

    Superconductivity Found in Thin Films of Titanium Oxide

    Many of us are familiar with titanium dioxide (TiO2), a whitener commonly used in sunscreens and paints such as the white lines seen on...

    Atoms-thick semiconductors stacks for solar cells and circuits

    A study led by UChicago researchers, published Sept. 20 in Nature, describes an innovative method to make stacks of semiconductors just a few atoms thick....

    Self-Folding Printable Structures once Peeled-Off

    In a paper appearing in the American Chemical Society's journal Applied Materials and Interfaces, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and...

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