Huge potential for electronic textiles made with new cellulose thread
A research team led by Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, now presents a thread made of conductive cellulose, which offers ...
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Solid-state batteries could be made more cleanly by scaling-up flash sintering
Credit: University of Warwick Flash sintering is a ceramic processing technique which uses electric current to intensively heat the ceramic ...
Microchips of the future: Suitable insulators are still missing
Until now, hexagonal boron nitride was considered the insulator of choice for miniaturized transistors -- new investigations by TU Wien ...
Microwave-assisted recording technology promises high-density hard disk performance
Flux control effect in microwave-assisted magnetic recording exploited to improve the recording field in hard disksCredit: Hirofumi Suto WASHINGTON, March ...
Direct observation of coherence energy scale of Hund’s metal
Credit: POSTECH Strongly correlated systems are materials that exhibit strong interactions between electrons, a property unseen in ordinary conductors or ...
ACS Nano special edition highlights innovations at KAIST
The collective intelligence and technological innovation of KAIST was highlighted with case studies including the Post-COVID-19 New Deal R&D Initiative ...
A better way to measure acceleration
NIST researchers rely on a light touch.Credit: F. Zhou/NIST You're going at the speed limit down a two-lane road when ...
New technique brings the study of molecular configuration into the microscopic domain
Credit: Courtesy Analytical Chemistry Researchers have developed a spectroscopic microscope to enable optical measurements of molecular conformations and orientations in ...
Sweden’s electromobility test bed is being established in Gothenburg, Nykvarn and Boras
Chalmers and RISE are now commencing construction of Sweden's electromobility test center: SEEL. Electrification of the transport sector is to ...
Reduced heat leakage improves wearable health device
Credit: Photo courtesy of Mehmet Ozturk. North Carolina State University engineers continue to improve the efficiency of a flexible device ...
Life’s rich pattern: Researchers use sound to shape the future of printing
Researchers in the UK have developed a way to coax microscopic particles and droplets into precise patterns by harnessing the ...
Speeding up commercialization of electric vehicles
Credit: POSTECH Professor Byoungwoo Kang develops a high-density cathode material through controlling local structures of the Li-rich layered materials. Researchers ...
Light in concert with force reveals how materials become harder when illuminated
When indented by a probe in darkness, wafers of some semiconductors are putty-like. When illuminated by light whose wavelength matches ...
Retinal implants can give artificial vision to the blind
Credit: Alain Herzog / 2021 EPFL Being able to make blind people see again sounds like the stuff of miracles ...
NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite reveals shape, depth of Antarctic ice shelf fractures
Credit: Shujie Wang, Penn State When a block of ice the size of Houston, Texas, broke off from East Antarctica's ...
First wearable device can monitor jaundice-causing bilirubin and vitals in newborns
Credit: Yokohama National University Researchers in Japan have developed the first wearable devices to precisely monitor jaundice, a yellowing of ...
Magnetic whirls in confined spaces
Mobility of skyrmions in geometric structures depends on their arrangementCredit: ill./©: Jan Rothörl and Chengkun Song In a close collaboration ...
Mantis shrimp inspires new breed of light sensors
Credit: Ali Altaqui Inspired by the eyes of mantis shrimp, researchers have developed a new kind of optical sensor that ...
‘Target identified’: teaching a machine how to identify imperfections in 2D materials
Applying machine learning to automated characterisation of atomically-thin materialsCredit: FLEET Just as James Cameron's Terminator-800 was able to discriminate between ...
Heat-free optical switch would enable optical quantum computing chips
Credit: Lucas Schweickert In a potential boost for quantum computing and communication, a European research collaboration reported a new method ...
