Tag: Materials

Credit: Junichi Yamaguchi, Yasunobu Sugimoto, Shintaro Sato, Hiroko Yamada With literally the thickness of one carbon atom and electrical properties ...

Light from inside the tunnel

Credit: University of Rostock, B. Liewehr Steering and monitoring the light-driven motion of electrons inside matter on the time-scale of ...

Scientists develop N-doped self-cleaning membranes that use visible light irradiation

Credit: ZHANG Huiru Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Argonne National ...

Northwestern launches a national resource to unlock role of metals in human health

Partners include Argonne National Laboratory and leading research universitiesCredit: Sample courtesy of the Kozorovitskiy and O'Halloran groups, analysis software from ...

Researchers catch a wave to determine how forces control granular material properties

Credit: Johns Hopkins University Stress wave propagation through grainy, or granular, materials is important for detecting the magnitude of earthquakes, ...

Cartwheeling light reveals new optical phenomenon

Rice University study finds novel type of polarized light-matter interactionCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 29, 2020) - A ...

Understanding of relaxor ferroelectric properties could lead to many advances

Credit: MRI, Penn State A new fundamental understanding of polymeric relaxor ferroelectric behavior could lead to advances in flexible electronics, ...

Rice lab’s bright idea is pure gold

Physicists see surprisingly strong light, high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodesCredit: Illustration by Longji Cui and Yunxuan Zhu/Rice University ...

Stanford-led team shows how to store data using 2D materials instead of silicon chips

Researchers have invented a way to slide atomically-thin layers of 2D materials over one another to store more data, in ...

Multifunctional nanofiber protects against explosions

Material could protect soldiers, firefighters, astronauts and moreCredit: Grant Gonzalez/Harvard SEAS Since World War I, the vast majority of American ...

Lose weight of fusion reactor component

Design optimization using a topology optimization techniqueCredit: National Institute for Fusion Science The group of associate professor Hitoshi Tamura and ...

Development of a small sensor capable of continuously monitoring the phytohormone ethylene

Technology may allow optimal transportation and storage of fruits and vegetables, reducing food wasteCredit: NIMS NIMS and AIST have developed ...

Researchers print, tune graphene sensors to monitor food freshness, safety

Credit: mage courtesy of Jonathan Claussen/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Researchers dipped their new, printed sensors into tuna broth ...

Support grows for Purdue sustainable method for manufacturing composite fiberboard